HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Prevalence, the Godolphin homebred who was withheld from a race last week at Gulfstream, could make his second career start in the coming days following a quick recovery from a minor illness. Prevalence breezed a half-mile in 48.40 seconds Saturday at the Palm Meadows training center.

Trainer Brendan Walsh said before leaving Tuesday for California, where on Saturday he will run Maxfield in the Santa Anita Handicap, that he hopes to run Prevalence in a first-level allowance in time to make a Kentucky Derby points qualifier.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Danny Gargan was very confident Venezuelan Hug would handle the jump from Florida-bred company into a graded race. Now he’s hoping the gray colt will be equally successful going from a Grade 3 into one of the most visible Grade 1 turf races in America.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Led by multiple stakes winner Wildman Jack, trainer Doug O’Neill could have five starters on the Dubai World Cup program on March 27 at Meydan Racecourse.

Wildman Jack, who won the Grade 3 Palos Verdes Stakes at six furlongs by 4 1/4 lengths on Jan. 23 at Santa Anita, has been invited to the Group 1 Golden Shaheen at six furlongs on dirt. Fernando Jara has been booked to ride Wildman Jack, O’Neill said.

In 2020, Wildman Jack won the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Sprint at six furlongs on turf at Meydan when O’Neill had a small stable there for a few months.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Rock Your World, unbeaten in two starts on turf, may switch surfaces for a pivotal race in early spring.

A day after Rock Your World won his stakes debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Pasadena Stakes for 3-year-olds, trainer John Sadler said the expensive colt is a candidate for the Grade 1 Runhappy Santa Anita Derby at 1 1/8 miles on the main track on April 3. The Santa Anita Derby is the final major West Coast prep for the Triple Crown.

Senor Buscador, who won the Springboard Mile and was fifth most recently in the Risen Star Stakes, emerged from a recent workout in preparation for the March 13 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn with what appears to be a minor injury and will be given time to recuperate, trainer Todd Fincher said Monday from Sam Houston, where Senor Buscador has been training.

Fincher said the issue is with Senor Buscador’s right front leg.

A capacity field of 12 3-year-olds is expected when entries are taken Wednesday for the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby, to be run Saturday for the 41st time at Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla.

Candy Man Rocket, winner of the Feb. 6 Sam F. Davis at Tampa, figures as a lukewarm favorite in the $350,000 Tampa Derby, a 1 1/16-mile race that offers Kentucky Derby qualifying points on a 50-20-10-5 scale. It’s one of three Derby preps set for a busy Saturday across the country, along with the Gotham at Aqueduct and the San Felipe at Santa Anita.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gulfstream Park’s leading rider Irad Ortiz Jr. was fined $1,000 and placed on probation for the remainder of the meet along with fellow jockey Paco Lopez after the two engaged in an altercation following the fourth race here Friday.

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Wendell Fong got a little freshening on a farm following his upset victory in the Fire Plug Stakes at Laurel Park on Jan. 16. After returning to Belmont and the worktab, Wendell Fong was deemed ready to go back at it in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap at Aqueduct.

Trainer Natalia Lynch said the Tom Fool was an afterthought until she breezed him a half-mile in 50.40 seconds on Friday at Belmont.

“I let him breeze to see about his fitness and he did it pretty well,” Lynch said. “I was letting him tell me if he wants to [run] or not.”

Trainer Tony Dutrow believes he’ll find out a little more about Miss Brazil when she runs in Saturday’s $250,000 Busher Invitational than he did when she beat two rivals in last month’s Ruthless Stakes. What Dutrow believes he already knows is he’ll see the best of what Miss Brazil has when she tries a mile for the first time in the Busher.

“Physically, mentally, I do not think she could be doing any better,” Dutrow said. “She is ready in every way to show what she is.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y.  - That Harold Wyner is cutting Capo Kane back to a one-turn mile in Saturday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct doesn’t mean he’s giving up on trying to get to the Kentucky Derby.

“I still believe he’s a horse that can go a mile and an eighth, mile and a quarter,” Wyner said Sunday.