Tapit, the undefeated Triple Crown hopeful, is scheduled to make his year's debut in the Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 15 at Fair Grounds.
The plans were made public on the Tapeta Farm website, on which Tapit has his own link. Tapeta is the home base of Michael Dickinson, who trains Tapit for Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC.
The website also stated that Jerry Bailey was expected to ride Tapit.
Efforts to reach Dickinson on Tuesday were unsuccessful.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Two basic handicapping considerations - class and condition - suggest that King of Happiness is nearly a standout Thursday in the feature race at Santa Anita. And yet, this import from England could be an overlay because of incidental factors that are far less important.
ARCADIA, Calif. - Congaree has been assigned high weight of 124 pounds for the Grade 2 San Antonio Handicap on Saturday at Santa Anita, the same weight he carried while winning the Cigar Mile by more than five lengths in his most recent start Nov. 29 at Aqueduct. Pleasantly Perfect, who will be racing for the first time since winning the Breeders' Cup Classic, was assigned 121 pounds for the $250,000 San Antonio at 1 1/8 miles.
ALBANY, Calif. - Palmeiro and Surprized will each take a class drop when they head a contentious field of six older runners in Thursday's feature at Golden Gate Fields, a $32,000 claimer at 1 1/16 miles.
Surprized, a 5-year-old gelding who had to have his name changed at age 2 after winning a stakes, has not won since his 2-year-old year, but he has more than paid his way, earning $215,245. He had 3 seconds and 4 thirds in 13 starts against better company last year and finished the year with three straight third-place finishes.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - By all rights, Second of June is supposed to regress after having posted a career-best 108 Beyer Speed Figure when he won the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes here. But after working a mile in 1:42.60 over a somewhat dull Calder racing surface Tuesday morning, Second of June, the early favorite for the $250,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes on Feb. 14, gave little indication he might be tailing off.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The distance will be a little longer, the price tags a bit higher, and the venue may have changed, but the competition will be the same when I'm All Yours, Last Stand, and Marco's Word renew acquaintances in Thursday's $40,000 optional claiming feature at Gulfstream Park. The race will be decided at a mile on the turf.
With a forecast for at least six inches of snow in the New York area, Aqueduct announced on Tuesday that it was canceling live racing and simulcasting on Wednesday. It was the fifth weather-related cancellation of the month and ninth since the inner track opened on Dec. 3.
Wednesday's card was to be brought back intact and run Thursday. The card includes a pick-six carryover of $36,082.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Lion Tamer, winner of the Grade 2 Hutcheson Stakes here last winter but idle since finishing far back in the Grade 1 Blue Grass on April 12, gets back in action in an optional claiming/allowance carded as Wednesday's eighth race.