OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Woody Allen’s observation that 80 percent of success is just showing up seemingly applies to a lunch-pail horse such as Regal Warrior, who will almost surely run his race against four rivals in Thursday’s $47,000 optional claiming feature for older males at a mile and 70 yards.

“He’s like Pete Rose – he doesn’t hit a lot of home runs, but he usually gets on base,” trainer Mike Trombetta said of the 4-year-old gelding who has run Beyer Speed Figures of 80 or better in 10 of 11 starts, a streak that began with a nose loss in the Federico Tesio Stakes last May.

Turbulent Descent’s win in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks last Saturday will be her last start around two turns for the foreseeable future. Trainer Mike Puype has the $150,000 Beaumont Stakes over about seven furlongs at Keeneland on April 17 as a potential next start for Turbulent Descent, who will be pointed to the major stakes for 3-year-old fillies in New York this summer.

Puype said he would solidify plans after talking with Scott Sherwood of Blinkers On Racing, part of the partnership that owns Turbulent Descent.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Caracortado, the runner-up in the Grade 1 Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita on Saturday, may have an international campaign this spring.

Trainer and co-owner Mike Machowsky said Caracortado may start in the Group 1 Golden Jubilee Stakes over six furlongs on turf at Royal Ascot in England on June 18, a race worth approximately $650,000.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” Machowsky said.

Machowsky mentioned the $300,000 Maker’s Mark Mile on turf on April 15 as a potential prep.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Terry Lanni has been a horse owner for nearly five decades, won a Breeders’ Cup race with Silic in 1999 and has trophies several other major stakes.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mobilizer, whose only poor performance in five career starts came on the biggest day of his career in the prestigious Queen’s Plate, tries grass for the first time when he returns from an eight-month layoff in Thursday’s $55,000 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – When entries were published Sunday for Thursday at Santa Anita, Dubai You X Y Z faced a formidable challenge in the optional claimer over 1 1/8 miles on turf, the day’s fifth race.

As the race draws closer, his job is getting easier.

Hyades, who finished third in the Grade 2 American Handicap and fifth in the Grade 1 Eddie Read Stakes last summer, will miss Thursday’s race, which would have been his first start in more than seven months, because of illness, trainer Ben Cecil said Tuesday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap last Saturday was the richest victory of Game On Dude’s career, but trainer Bob Baffert has his sights set on an even bigger prize.

On Tuesday, Baffert said he wants to start Game On Dude in the $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates on March 26 – if he can gain a berth.

Baffert was in contact Tuesday with Dubai World Cup representatives who have told him that Game On Dude is not a certain starter. The race has a maximum field of 14 starters.

Although Golden Gate Fields is stuck in the middle of a two-month period without stakes racing, the 3-year-old ranks here received a boost from a race halfway across the country. Locally based Positive Response scored a seven-length, wire-to-wire victory in the $100,000 John Battaglia Memorial Stakes at Turfway Park as the 2-1 favorite Saturday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Havre de Grace looked every bit the part of one of the nation's top fillies on Tuesday morning, when she breezed five furlongs in a bullet 59.40 seconds at Oaklawn Park. It was her final serious prep for the Grade 3, $150,000 Azeri here March 19.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – An outside post going two turns on Aqueduct’s inner track may not be ideal for most horses, but it may prove to be just what Saginaw needs when he runs in Wednesday’s first-level allowance feature going a mile.