HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - After originally leaning toward waiting for the Blue Grass for Theregoesjojo's final Kentucky Derby prep, trainer Ken McPeek has now decided to remain at Gulfstream Park and point his promising 3-year-old to the $750,000 Florida Derby on March 28.

Theregoesjojo rallied to finish second behind Quality Road when making his stakes debut in the one-mile Fountain of Youth on Feb. 28. Theregoesjojo had defeated Quality Road when the pair met in a seven-furlong allowance race earlier in the meet.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Old Fashioned, the early favorite for the Kentucky Derby, tuned up for next weekend's Grade 2, $300,000 Rebel by working five furlongs in a bullet 59 seconds Sunday morning at his Oaklawn Park base. Also on the track was Rachel Alexandra, a leading candidate for the Kentucky Oaks, who breezed in preparation for a start in the Grade 2, $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Not all of trainer Bobby Frankel's fillies and mares have perfect noses.

An hour after the Frankel-trained Stardom Bound won Saturday's Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks by a nose, the heavily favored Ventura, the stable's leading older female, lost the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile against males by a similar margin.

Gio Ponti ($12.80) rallied from ninth in a field of 10 under jockey Ramon Dominguez to just catch Ventura in the $300,000 race.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Stardom Bound, the nation's top 3-year-old filly, kept her win streak intact on Saturday, but her desperate nose win over a moderate group in the Grade 1, $300,000 Santa Anita Oaks left her connections soberly realistic about what could come next.

Before the race, the Grade 1, $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 4, against males, was considered a strong possibility. Now . . .

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - I Lost My Choo continued to stake her claim as the ultimate horse for the Gulfstream Park turf course when she rallied to a two-length triumph over the 50-1 Rustic Flame in Saturday's $100,000 Honey Fox Stakes. The victory was the fourth in as many starts for the New York-bred I Lost My Choo over Gulfstream's infield strip.

Kiss With a Twist put away odds-on Unspoken Word leaving the eighth pole, then held a late-closing De Star Express safe to post her second straight stakes victory Saturday in the $50,000 Wintergreen Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

Saarlight did all the work Saturday in the $50,000 Wide Country Stakes at Laurel, and her reward was a one-length victory over Strut the Canary in the seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies.

TAMPA, Fla. Favored Fierce Wind came back late to outfinish a game Fearless Vision and post a neck victory in the $65,000 Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs on Saturday.

Under a strong ride by Daniel Centeno, Fierce Wind bid outside on the second turn after being parked wide by Fearless Vision. Fierce Wind continued to do battle with that one through a long drive before surging in deep stretch to get up in the shadow of the wire.

ARCADIA, Calif. Sweet August Moon wins the Honest Lady at Santa Anita. Trainer Brian Koriner has big plans for her this year.P

From trainer Brian Koriner's perspective, Sweet August Moon launched her career by winning Saturday's $100,000 Honest Lady Stakes at Santa Anita.

"I think we're just getting started," he said. "I think she can be worth a lot of money and travel around the country for one-turn stakes."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The connections of I Want Revenge had a strong suspicion their horse would be better on dirt than he had been on the synthetic tracks of Southern California.

Their suspicions were confirmed in a major way Saturday as I Want Revenge - making his dirt debut - relished Aqueduct's inner track as he dominated the Grade 3, $250,000 Gotham Stakes by 8 1/2 lengths and announced himself a major contender for this year's Kentucky Derby.