HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Original Intent is back at Oaklawn Park following a start at Aqueduct and is being pointed to the Trail’s End on the final day of the meet May 8, according to trainer Bentley Combs.  

The Trail’s End is the traditional final race of the meet, and it is run at 1 3/4 miles. Original Intent dominated the race last year, winning by more than six lengths and earning a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 87.  

In more recent times, Original Intent was fourth in the $75,000 Stud Muffin on March 26 at Aqueduct. The race was run over 1 3/8 miles.  

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Presidential was a notable allowance winner earlier this month at Oaklawn Park and the 3-year-old could see stakes action at Lone Star Park.  

Trainer Steve Asmussen said Wednesday that Presidential is being considered for a start in the $300,000 Texas Derby at Lone Star. The horse is coming off a first-level allowance route win for which he earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 81 here April 16.  

“Obviously, we were very pleased with his win the other day,” Asmussen said. “He did really well. The Texas Derby on May 30 is a strong possibility.”  

Jockey Kevin Roman has had an outstanding weekend at Fonner Park.  

He won six races at the Nebraska track on Friday and came back and won another five on Saturday. 

Roman won with six of his seven mounts Friday, and of those wins five came for the owner-trainer combination of GSH Stable and Isai Gonzalez.  

ELMONT, N.Y. - Early Voting, the Grade 2 Wood Memorial runner-up, worked a half-mile in 49.97 seconds Saturday morning over the Belmont Park training track, with a decision on his Kentucky Derby participation expected by the end of the weekend.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. -- Champion Jackie’s Warrior emerged from his victory in the Grade 3, $500,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap at Oaklawn in “fabulous” condition and is now settled in at Churchill Downs, according to his trainer, Steve Asmussen. 

Jackie’s Warrior was making his 4-year-old debut in the Count Fleet on April 16. He dueled through quick fractions and was a three-quarter-length winner of the six-furlong race run in the slop. Jackie’s Warrior covered the distance in 1:09.09 and earned a 98 Beyer Speed Figure. 

LOUISVILLE — Barber Road and Zozos, both of whom turned in runner-up efforts in major Kentucky Derby preps, turned in their respective penultimate works for the May 7 classic on Friday morning at Churchill Downs. 

Arkansas Derby runner-up Barber Road, working with jockey Reylu Gutierrez aboard shortly after the mid-morning harrow break, worked six furlongs in 1:16.40 seconds, according to Churchill Downs clockers. The main track was officially rated fast at that time, despite still holding moisture from rain the day before. 

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will prohibit fans from bringing in alcoholic beverages and large-sized coolers to the backyard at the upcoming Belmont Park spring/summer meeting, which begins Thursday. Only personal-sized coolers that measure 12 inches by 6 inches will be permitted in that area.

The only area where outside alcohol and coolers will be permitted is the Top of the Stretch picnic area, NYRA announced in a press release Friday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown was pointing Miles D to Saturday’s Grade 2, $1 million Oaklawn Handicap, but had to cancel those plans after the horse developed a temperature.

Miles D, who had his first work in three weeks on April 17 at Payson Park, will now be pointed to the Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special on May 20, Brown said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Domestic Spending, the multiple Grade 1 winner who was scratched from last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar with a suspensory issue, will begin galloping at Saratoga next week with the hopes of returning to the races later this summer, trainer Chad Brown said this week.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Green Light Go, a 5-year-old son of Hard Spun who seemed to have rediscovered his graded stakes-winning juvenile form, broke the sesamoid bone in his right foreleg during a workout Friday morning at Belmont Park and had to be euthanized, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said.

Green Light Go was inside the eighth pole of his Friday morning work over the training track when he was pulled up by exercise rider Kelvin Pahal. A boot was placed on Green Light Go’s right foreleg, and he was vanned off. A follow-up exam revealed the injuries were unsalvageable.