Wit won his career debut on Belmont Stakes Day 2021. His connections hope he wins his next race on Belmont Stakes Day 2022.

Wit, who came off a six-month layoff to run down Highly Respected and win Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Bay Shore Stakes, will be pointed to the Grade 1, $400,000 Woody Stephens on June 11, trainer Todd Pletcher said Sunday.

“We were cutting it close to be ready for this race,” Pletcher said. “A little extra time back to the Woody Stephens will be good and take our best shot at winning a Grade 1 there.”

About 30 minutes after winning the Carter, trainer Bill Mott and Godolphin won the Grade 3, $250,000 Gazelle Stakes with Nostalgic, who is likely headed for the Kentucky Oaks on May 6 at Churchill Downs.

“Just waiting on confirmation that’s what everybody wants to do,” Mott said Sunday. “I’m sure everybody will be in favor of it.”

While Nostalgic may not be considered among the elite contenders for what is shaping up to be a deep Oaks, she does have a win at 1 1/8 miles, which is not something that all the top names such as Secret Oath, Kathleen O. and Echo Zulu possess.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Bill Mott has been chasing a victory in the prestigious Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap his entire career. Perhaps, 2022 is the year.

Mott will point Speaker’s Corner, uber-impressive winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct, to the Grade 1, $1 million Metropolitan Handicap on June 11 at Belmont Park. From 1992 through 2020, Mott has run 11 horses in the Met Mile, with third-place finishes from To Honor and Serve and Flat Out as his best results.

Prevalence, long well regarded, appears to be on an upswing that saw him notch his first graded stakes victory on Saturday at Keeneland.

The Godolphin homebred won the Grade 3 Commonwealth Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths, earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 98. That figure is just shy of the career-best 99 he posted in an allowance-level win in March at Gulfstream Park.

On Sunday morning at Keeneland, trainer Brendan Walsh said that Prevalence - and his other two Saturday winners, including maiden victor Emirates Road, a half-brother to Prevalence - emerged in good order.

Oaklawn Park leading rider David Cabrera will likely miss the remainder of the meet and the early part of the Lone Star Park season due to injuries sustained in a Friday spill, agent Jose Santos Jr., said Saturday.

Cabrera hit the ground hard after being thrown from his fallen mount in the first race, and remained in St. Vincent Hospital in Hot Springs, Ark., on Saturday morning. Santos said more has been learned about the extent of Cabrera’s injuries as his ability to communicate improved overnight and he was able to identify areas of pain.

Oaklawn leading rider David Cabrera, who was thrown from his mount in the first race Friday, was to remain in the hospital overnight and likely will not ride through next Saturday, according to his agent, Jose Santos Jr.

Santos said Friday night that Cabrera remains in the intensive-care unit. He was awaiting more specific details on the rider’s condition, but said a concern is internal bleeding. Santos said Cabrera is conscious and moving his extremities. He said there are no known broken bones.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – While Bill Mott was scheduled to run Speaker’s Corner in Saturday’s Grade 1 Carter Handicap at Aqueduct, he has made a tentative plan for his other top older dirt male runner Olympiad.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Coming off a strong winter meet and a solid start to the spring season at Aqueduct, trainer Jeffrey Englehart plans to have a stronger presence in New York on a year-round basis.

Englehart won 10 races from 62 starters during the Aqueduct winter meet. After five days of the 15-day Aqueduct spring meet, Englehart has won four races from 12 starts to top the trainer standings.

Stilleto Boy, third in three consecutive Grade 1 races since Christmas, recently resumed workouts after a brief vacation in March. Trainer Ed Moger Jr. said Friday that the 4-year-old Stilleto Boy is under consideration for the Grade 2 Californian Stakes on April 30 or the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup on May 30.

Mackinnon, a two-time stakes winner on turf last year, is scheduled to rejoin trainer Doug O’Neill’s stable this weekend after a brief rest.

Mackinnon was second by a neck to Blackadder in the El Camino Real Derby at 1 1/8 miles on the synthetic track at Golden Gate Fields on Feb. 12. O’Neill said Mackinnon will return to turf racing this spring.

Last November, Mackinnon was third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Del Mar. O’Neill said he is hopeful Mackinnon can return to a Breeders’ Cup race, possibly this November at Keeneland.