You wouldn’t know from the entry list Saturday at Fair Grounds that trainer Todd Pletcher doesn’t have a string stabled at the track.

Pletcher has seven entrants on the 13-race Risen Star card, all of them shipping from his Palm Beach Downs base in South Florida.

“We had opportunities for some stakes and saw the chance to run some other horses,” said Pletcher, whose large contingent arrives early Thursday in New Orleans.

Pletcher doesn’t make a habit of overmatching his horses, yet none of his Fair Grounds entrants look like surefire win threats.

The 3-year-old colt Smile Happy hasn’t started since late November, but since Jan. 22 his form, impressive enough already, has shined even brighter.

Call Me Midnight, seventh in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes on Nov. 27, won the Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 22 at Fair Grounds. On Feb. 5, White Abarrio, third in the Kentucky Jockey Club, won the Holy Bull Stakes by more than four lengths. And Feb. 12, Classic Causeway produced an excellent performance winning the Sam Davis Stakes, his first start since a second-place Kentucky Jockey Club finish.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano did not receive a suspension from the Tampa stewards following a review of a Friday race in which his mount, Cyberviking, was disqualified from first to second for interfering with an opponent to his inside while under a right-handed whip.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – There’s perhaps a minor concern exiting the Sam F. Davis Stakes, but overall, the sky seems the limit for Classic Causeway as his 3-year-old season unfolds.

On the lead from the start Saturday in the Grade 3 Davis at Tampa Bay Downs, Classic Causeway was a dominant 3 3/4-length winner under Irad Ortiz Jr. in an effort that simultaneously validated the considerable potential the colt flashed at 2 while making him one of the early favorites for the May 7 Kentucky Derby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Drain the Clock, winner of the Grade 1 Woody Stephens in June, heads the prospective lineup of older horses for the Grade 3, $125,000 Gulfstream Park Sprint on Saturday. Entries are to be drawn Wednesday.

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Herman Wilensky has been training for more than 20 years in his native South Florida. It took a four-hour trip across the state for Wilensky to experience the kind of unique thrill he got Saturday when he saddled the 5-year-old mares Drop a Hint and My Destiny to finish one-two in the $50,000 Minaret Stakes on the big Sam F. Davis card at Tampa Bay Downs.

“The only thing that could’ve been better was a dead heat,” an elated Wilensky, 58, said Monday when back at his Gulfstream Park base. “But yes, everything worked out really well.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. -- Following two dominant victories on dirt in one week, Kept Waiting will remain racing over that surface for the foreseeable future, trainer Robert Falcone Jr. said.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Dr. Schivel, second in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar in November, worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Sunday for a scheduled start in the Group 1 Golden Shaheen Stakes at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on March 26.

Trained by Mark Glatt, Dr. Schivel has not raced since he finished last of seven in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs on Dec. 26. He was diagnosed with an illness following that race.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Hit the Road, the winner of the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile in 2021 and three other stakes, has been turned out at a farm in central California and is not expected to resume racing until the Del Mar summer meeting, trainer Dan Blacker said.

“He’ll get a couple of months,” Blacker said. “It’s nothing major. He needs a freshening now and then.”

Hit the Road, 5, finished eighth in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 29, 3 1/2 lengths behind winner Colonel Liam, in his first start since October.

ARCADIA, Calif. - In a strict economic sense, sending Ouraika from Maryland to California for Saturday’s $102,500 Sweet Life Stakes was a gamble.

The winner’s share was $60,000 - a decent sum, but an amount that goes fast when travel fees and other costs are included. The risk, however, had its rewards when Ouraika rallied from fifth in the final furlong to win the Grade 3 race by a head.