At first glance, the eighth race Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs looks like your run-of-the-mill bottom-level claimer – but with trainer Michael Wright on an amazing run, the race will command special attention.

Wright has won with his first six starters of the 2021-22 meet at Tampa, and he’ll try to move his record to 7 for 7 when saddling Victor’s Destiny in the 5 1/2-furlong race for $5,000 claimers who have not won twice in the last six months.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Hit the Road, the winner of the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile last March, zoomed five furlongs on turf in 58.42 seconds before the first race on Sunday in a workout for the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 29.

Ridden by jockey Umberto Rispoli, Hit the Road was timed in 36.14 seconds for the first three furlongs, and the final quarter-mile in a sharp 22.28 seconds. Rispoli urged Hit the Road through the final furlong.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Ce Ce, a finalist for the 2021 Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding female sprinter, is scheduled to have her 2022 debut in the Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 5.

Trainer Michael McCarthy considered the $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes or the Grade 2 Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 29, but said on Sunday the local race is preferred.

“It will probably be here,” McCarthy said.

The 20-cent Rainbow pick six will have a carryover of $418,627 for Saturday’s program at Santa Anita, a day with a mandatory payout.

The pick six covers the fifth through 10th races on a program that begins at noon Pacific.

The pick six sequence includes four stakes that are part of the California Cup program for statebreds.

Track officials expect the gross pool to reach $4 million.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Saturday’s live racing program at Aqueduct has been canceled, due to a forecast that calls for dangerously low wind chill values in the New York City metropolitan area, according to the New York Racing Association.

Temperatures are forecast to be in the mid-to-upper teens with windchill values around 0 to negative -5, at least early on Saturday. The NYRA also canceled training Saturday at Belmont Park, where all the locally based horses who race at Aqueduct are stabled.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Green Light Go, who earned a career-best 101 Beyer Speed Figure winning a third-level allowance race Thursday at Aqueduct, has the Grade 1 Carter in April as a likely target for the spring, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said Friday.

“Unless Life Is Good or one of those horses shows up,” Jerkens said.

Green Light Go won for the first time in 11 months on Thursday, stalking a contentious early pace before taking the lead at the half-mile pole and drawing away with ease under Dylan Davis. Green Light Go ran a mile in 1:35.19.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – If things had gone according to plan, Jose Gomez would be about a year into his career as a jockey. But a broken arm suffered in January 2021 delayed the beginning of his career.

It may have turned out to be a blessing.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hit the Road and Smooth Like Strait were Grade 1 winners in one-mile turf races in California in 2021, a season in which they met three times.

This year, they are unlikely to appear in the same race until well into the spring.

Smooth Like Strait has not raced since he finished a game second by a half-length to 2-1 favorite Space Blues in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile on Nov. 6 at Del Mar. Smooth Like Strait, who won the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile last May, recently rejoined trainer Michael McCarthy’s stable at Santa Anita.

Ginobili, a Grade 2 winner in 2021 who was second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar in November, has been invited to the $1.5 million Riyadh Dirt Sprint at King Abdulaziz Racetrack on Feb. 26 in Saudi Arabia, trainer Richard Baltas said.

The lucrative Group 3 race is run at six furlongs on the undercard of the $20 million Saudi Cup.

“There is a chance we will go,” Baltas said. “It’s a lot of money and he’s a gelding.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Flightline, the undefeated colt who cruised to three easy wins last year, is in regular training at Santa Anita and will likely race in March.

Trainer John Sadler said Friday that Flightline is galloping on a daily basis and that a specific race goal has not been determined.

Flightline won his stakes debut in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs on Dec. 26.

“We’re right in the middle of planning stuff,” Sadler said. “He’ll probably be starting to work at the end of January. We’re looking at something in March.”