OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Morello, who earned an 84 Beyer Speed Figure for his five-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes, will point to the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham on March 5, trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday.

Morello, a son of Classic Empire, was a three-wide stalking presence in the Winkfield, took over in upper stretch and drew away nicely under Jose Lezcano. He covered seven furlongs in 1:23.30 in what was race 4 on a nine-race card over a track that got faster as the day progressed.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Drafted, who earned a 97 Beyer Speed Figure for his victory in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes, could make his next start in the Grade 1, $300,000 Carter Handicap here on April 9, trainer David Duggan said Sunday.

“We’ll nominate and look,” Duggan said. “It’s nice to even be thinking about it. If he got beat 10 lengths we’re back in an allowance race. That’s the reality of it.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Going Global, a six-time stakes winner in 2021, recently resumed training with Phil D’Amato at Santa Anita after a brief rest in January.

Going Global, 4, may have her 2022 debut in the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes, a $200,000 race for fillies and mares at a mile on turf on April 9.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jose Ontiveros, a longtime morning outrider who worked as a pony person in the afternoon at Southern California tracks, died on Feb. 2 of COVID-19, according to his son Edgar.

Jose Ontiveros, 60, was hospitalized at Arcadia Methodist at the time of his death. Ontiveros had been troubled by a cough since late December, according to his son.

“It would not go away,” Edgar Ontiveros said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Express Train came within a half-length of winning the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap last March, a loss that still stings trainer John Shirreffs. Express Train led by two lengths with a furlong remaining, but was caught by Idol and finished second.

“He had a chance to win the race,” Shirreffs recalled on Sunday morning.

The narrow loss may be forgotten on March 5 if Express Train wins this year’s Santa Anita Handicap.

Mr. Jagermeister, one of the most successful Minnesota-breds in history, has been retired because of a non-life-threatening injury suffered in a Saturday workout at Tampa as he prepared for a planned run in the Pelican Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

Mr. Jagermeister, a 7-year-old horse by Atta Boy Roy, earned $700,839 in winning 13 of 37 starts from ages 2 to 7, including seven statebred stakes. Bred by his co-owner, Kristin Boice, he earned a career-high 100 Beyer Speed Figure in what turned out to be his final race, in a six-furlong allowance Jan. 9 at Tampa.

A large field of 3-year-olds is expected when entries for the Sam F. Davis Stakes are drawn Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla.

The Grade 3, $200,000 Davis will be run Saturday at 1 1/16 miles as the first Kentucky Derby qualifier held at Tampa this season, with points distributed on a 10-4-2-1 scale. The Tampa Bay Derby (50-20-10-5) follows four weeks later on March 12.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Count Again and Subconscious were first and second in the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes at a mile on turf at Santa Anita on Saturday, and a rematch is possible in the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf on March 5.

Count Again closed from fifth in a field of six to finish a half-length in front of 3-5 favorite Subconscious. The $100,500 Thunder Road was Count Again’s first win since the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap at Del Mar in November 2020 and first race since a last-place finish in a field of five in the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile last August.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Flightline, the brilliant 4-year-old colt, gave assistant trainer Juan Leyva a unique birthday present at Santa Anita on Sunday – a smooth half-mile workout in 48 seconds in preparation for the Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes on March 5.

Leyva, who turned 38 on Sunday, has been a regular work rider for Flightline, who is unbeaten in three starts for trainer John Sadler. On Dec. 26, Flightline won his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at seven furlongs for 3-year-olds by 11 1/2 lengths. The $200,000 San Carlos is also run at seven furlongs.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - For the second straight year, trainer Chad Brown and owner Seth Klarman teamed to win the Grade 3 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct. The Eclipse Award-winning connections will hope Early Voting can have more success on the Triple Crown trail this year than Risk Taking did in 2021.