LEXINGTON, Ky. – Rosie Napravnik was supposed to make a 10-hour drive from Delaware to Keeneland on Tuesday, but a nasty case of food poisoning delayed the trip by a day.

“It was horrible,” said Napravnik. “Four of us went to our favorite restaurant near Delaware Park [Monday night], and I had what everybody else had, except for the salad dressing. I was the only one who got sick, so I guess that was it.”

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Twenty-four hours later than scheduled, but none the worse for wear, undefeated champion Uncle Mo arrived in New York at 11:15 a.m. Wednesday morning for his engagement in Saturday’s $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.

Uncle Mo arrived from south Florida on a Tex Sutton flight that had been delayed one day due to weather concerns.

"He shipped in really well and everything went smoothly," trainer Todd Pletcher said. "Im glad we waited the extra day and let the weather clear up. We had an uneventful trip."

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.- S. S. Stone, who rose from the claiming ranks this winter to capture Sunday’s Grade 3 Skip Away at Gulfstream Park, will be sidelined indefinitely after exiting the race with a small fracture in his left cannon bone, trainer Nick Zito reported on Wednesday.

Patrick Valenzuela will ride Sway Away in the Arkansas Derby, trainer Jeff Bonde said Monday. The horse, who was the runner-up to The Factor in the Grade 2 San Vicente at Santa Anita in February, finished a troubled sixth last out in the Grade 2, $300,000 Rebel at Oaklawn. (The Factor won the race and on Monday worked six furlongs in 1:11.40 at Santa Anita.)

Churchill Downs announced Tuesday that the track will host postrace concerts following twilight Friday cards at the spring meet for five straight weeks following the May 7 Kentucky Derby before getting into its nighttime programs.

First post for the twilight Fridays will be 2:45 p.m., with the last race going at about 8 and the concerts following shortly thereafter. Those dates are May 13, 20, and 27 and June 3-10.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Katskill Bay and Fiery Footwork, who finished a neck apart when second and third behind stakes-bound 3-year-old Dr Disco in a similar spot St. Patrick's Day, are among a handful of contenders in Thursday's $42,000 optional claiming feature at Aqueduct, which is for New York-breds at 6 1/2 furlongs.

Coming off a determined finish to edge Fiery Footwork for second, Katskill Bay may have the right running style to overtake a hotly contested pace.

Kensei, who owns graded stakes at Belmont and Saratoga, will try to complete a trifecta of sorts when he runs in the Grade 1 Carter at Aqueduct on Saturday.

Owned by Jess Jackson’s Stonestreet Stable and Jerry Bailey and Lance Robinson’s Gulf Coast Farms, Kensei comes off a second-place finish to Misremembered in the Santana Mile at Santa Anita on March 6.

“I was very pleased with it,’’ trainer Steve Asmussen said. “The race was pretty quick early, it wasn’t a smooth trip early for him, but he put in a good run, got a lot out of it and has worked incredible since.’’

OZONE PARK, N.Y – Uncle Mo could face as many as 10 opponents in Saturday’s $1 million Wood Memorial at Aqueduct and as far as the champion 2-year-old’s connections are concerned, the more the merrier.

“I want to get him around more horses,’’ owner Mike Repole said earlier this week. “In the Derby there’s going to be 20 horses. I’d like to see him get an outside post and not see him on the lead, but be able to rate and relax.’’

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The annual stakes bonanza known as the Racing Festival of the South will open on Saturday with the running of the Grade 2, $350,000 Oaklawn Handicap.

It is the first of nine stakes to be run over the final six dates of the meet, with purses for the races totaling $2.7 million. The festival features five graded stakes, including the lone Grade 1 races in the region, the $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap on April 15 and the $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 16.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland won’t waste any time showing off the caliber of horses that will compete during the 15-day spring meet that begins Friday: A Breeders’ Cup winner, Pluck, is among the 10 3-year-olds entered in the opening-day feature, the Grade 3 Transylvania Stakes.