ARCADIA, Calif. – Greyvitos, the winner of the $402,400 Springboard Mile at Remington Park in December, will have a new jockey when he returns from injury in the Grade 3 Lexington Stakes at Keeneland on April 14.

Evin Roman, the champion apprentice jockey of 2017, will ride Greyvitos for the first time, trainer Adam Kitchingman said on Sunday. Roman replaces Victor Espinoza, who is booked to ride Accelerate in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas on the same day.

On Sunday at Del Mar, Greyvitos worked seven furlongs from the gate in 1:27.20 under Roman.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bolt d’Oro reached the finish of a five-furlong workout at Santa Anita on Sunday in 1:01.20. It was then that the talented colt decided the exercise was not complete.

“When he got to the wire, he grabbed the bit like he was coming out of the gate,” trainer Mick Ruis said.

Exercise rider Agapito Delgadillo told Ruis that Bolt d’Oro had ample energy after five furlongs. The promising workout comes just days before Bolt d’Oro starts in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on Saturday in a final prep for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 5.

Listed, $140,000 Burradon Stakes, 1 mile and 5 yards on Tapeta, Newcastle, March 30, 2018

Winner: Gronkowski, by Lonhro
Trainer: Jeremy Noseda
Jockey: Jamie Spencer
Owner: Phoenix Thoroughbred Ltd.
Beyer Speed Figure: N/A

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher came to South Florida this winter with a bevy of unproven commodities in the 3-year-old division. He will leave here in a few weeks for Churchill Downs with a strong portfolio of contenders for the 144th Kentucky Derby.

Grade 2, $2 million United Arab Emirates Derby, about 1 3/16 miles (1,900 meters), Meydan, March 31, 2018
(100 Derby qualifying points for a win, 40 for second, 20 for third, 10 for fourth)

Winner: Mendelssohn, by Scat Daddy
Trainer: Aidan O’Brien
Jockey: Ryan Moore
Owners: Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier, and Derrick Smith
Beyer Speed Figure: 106

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher continued his recent stranglehold on Gulfstream Park’s marquee event, the $1 million Florida Derby, winning the race for the fourth time in the last six years as Audible registered a popular and convincing three-length victory over the up-and-coming Hofburg in the Grade 1 Kentucky Derby prep. It was nearly eight lengths farther back to third-place finisher Mississippi.

Top Kentucky Derby contender McKinzie has sustained an injury and won't start in the Santa Anita Derby, trainer Bob Baffert said a few minutes after the Dubai World Cup on Saturday night in Dubai.

Missing the Santa Anita Derby obviously would put McKinzie's status for the Kentucky Derby in doubt.

Baffert said it was unclear how McKinzie hurt himself and even what the exact nature of the injury is. McKinzie worked a strong five furlongs on Monday at Santa Anita but didn't come out to train Thursday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Aidan O’Brien said before the UAE Derby that Mendelssohn is the horse best suited to the Kentucky Derby that he’s ever trained. He’s surely not saying anything different now.

Mendelssohn made his dirt debut in the Grade 2, $2 million UAE Derby and won almost from Dubai to Kentucky.

And Kentucky, all being well, is where Mendelssohn is headed as an intriguing horse for the Kentucky Derby on May 5 at Churchill Downs.

By way of tiny Newcastle Racecourse in the north of England, Gronkowski is bound for the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 5.

Friday, Gronkowski won his fourth consecutive race in the $140,000 Burradon Stakes at a mile on Newcastle’s Tapeta surface. The victory clinched Gronkowski’s position as the winner of the European Road to the Derby series with 50 qualifying points. This is the first year of the European series, which encompassed seven races in England, France and Ireland.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on April 7 may have one of its smallest fields in recent history, and the presence of the two leading 3-year-olds in the nation – Bolt d’Oro and McKinzie – is largely to blame.

McKinzie and Bolt d’Oro, both Grade 1 winners as 2-year-olds, were first and second, separated by a head, in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on March 10. McKinzie was disqualified and placed second behind Bolt d’Oro for causing interference in the stretch.