LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mother should be pleased with the 10-race card on tap Sunday at Churchill. Three allowances serve as co-features on an afternoon when thousands of families traditionally accompany mom to the races. First post is 12:45 p.m. Eastern.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Catherine Day Phillips has gotten off to a quick start at the Woodbine meet, recording three wins from her first nine starters. All three of her wins came in racing action last week, with Katie Baby, Notice Me, and Smooth Talk.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The post-Derby segment of the Churchill spring meet got off to a successful start for jockey Corey Lanerie and his new agent, Cory Prewitt, as Lanerie won two races on the first Thursday card of the meet. His six mounts on the card were the first booked for Lanerie by Prewitt.

“It feels pretty good to start that way,” said Prewitt, 30. “Corey’s not going to Baltimore next weekend, so we’re getting a lot of business lined up here. Hopefully the momentum will keep building.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Like a lot of people, Tyler Gaffalione is about over the Kentucky Derby. He just wants to take things one day at a time, a deliberate process that will put his difficult trip on War of Will – and having to rehash it over and over – ever further in the rearview mirror.

“I’m really looking forward to the Preakness,” said Gaffalione. “I think [War of Will] can compete with anybody given the opportunity.”

If you’re wanting to feel bad for Gaffalione because his mount was impeded by Maximum Security in the Derby – don’t.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sharp Samurai, a five-time stakes winner who was withdrawn from the Breeders’ Cup Mile last fall because of illness, is scheduled to have his 2019 debut in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita on May 27.

Sharp Samurai, who worked six furlongs in 1:14.40 on Wednesday, has not raced since winning the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile on turf at Santa Anita last October.

“We’ve settled into having him ready for the second half of the year,” trainer Mark Glatt said on Thursday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Ollie’s Candy, the winner of the Grade 2 Summertime Oaks last June, recently joined trainer John Sadler’s stable at Santa Anita and is nearing her 2019 debut.

Ollie’s Candy, who races for owners and breeders Paul and Karen Eggert, was second in two graded stakes on turf for 3-year-old fillies at Del Mar last summer – the Grade 2 San Clemente Stakes at a mile and the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks at 1 1/8 miles.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Bourbon War will wear blinkers for the first time in a race when he starts in the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes on May 18.

Bourbon War, most recently fourth to Maximum Security in the Florida Derby, had his fourth workout in blinkers on Thursday, breezing five furlongs in 1:01.91 over Belmont Park’s main track. The blinkers are a thin cup.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Heavy favorites have been a staple of recent runnings of the Preakness, so the prospect of a mostly fresh slate for the 144th running on May 18 at Pimlico in Baltimore has given at least one insider a glass-half-full outlook.

“At least it looks like a good betting race this year,” said Keith Feustle, who will compose the Pimlico morning line for the second jewel of the Triple Crown for the sixth straight year.

ELMONT, N.Y. – A week after their Maximum Security was disqualified from first in the Kentucky Derby, owners Gary and Mary West and trainer Jason Servis are back in another stakes for 3-year-olds as they send out Final Jeopardy in the Grade 3, $300,000 Peter Pan on Saturday at Belmont Park.

Final Jeopardy was one of just five horses entered in the Peter Pan, a one-turn 1 1/8-mile race that frequently produces runners for the Belmont Stakes.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The Ireland-based trainer Aidan O’Brien participated in seven graded stakes on the New York Racing Association circuit in 2018. He won the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks with Athena and had Grade 1 placings with Mendelssohn and Hunting Horn.