OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mind Control, the Grade 1 Hopeful and Jerome stakes winner, returned to the work tab Tuesday, breezing a half-mile in 48.77 seconds over Belmont Park’s training track. He is working toward an expected start in the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct on Feb. 2.

“He’s thriving right now – very happy,” trainer Gregg Sacco said. “It was almost like a gallop for him.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Less than three weeks after beginning his 8-year-old season in Southern California, Solid Wager was one of five sprinters entered Wednesday for Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct.

NEW ORLEANS – Bell’s the One was an intended starter in the Silverbulletday Stakes on Saturday, but wasn’t entered in the race after contracting a minor illness, trainer Neil Pessin said.

Bell’s the One was set to make her two-turn debut after winning three sprint races – an Arlington maiden, a Keeneland allowance, and the Letellier Stakes here at Fair Grounds last month.

NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Brendan Walsh won four stakes races during 2018. It’s not outlandish imagining him winning four Saturday at Fair Grounds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Following a journey of more than 21 hours, the Japanese-bred Aerolithe arrived here early Wednesday, making her the first non-Florida-based arrival for either of the Pegasus World Cup events, set for next Saturday, Jan. 26. The 5-year-old mare was flown from Tokyo to South Korea to Alaska to Miami, pulling through the Gulfstream stable gate at about 3:15 a.m.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Famer Reade Baker has announced his retirement from training to become a breeding and sales consultant.

“It’s time for a new challenge,” said Baker, 71, who plans to be based in Toronto.

Baker was the agent for jockey Gary Stahlbaum before becoming the racing manager for prominent owner Richard Kennedy, who campaigned 1987 Canadian champions Afleet and One From Heaven. Afleet was the 1987 Canadian Horse of the Year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Catch her, if you can.

Santa Anita-based front-runner Fahan Mura will ship next week to Gulfstream Park, where she is likely to set the pace in the $7 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational on Jan. 26.

Trainer Vladimir Cerin is finalizing details this week for the 5-year-old mare, who rose from the claiming ranks to become one of the top female turf runners in California. In her most recent start, on Dec. 29, Fahan Mura won the Grade 3 Robert J. Frankel at 1 1/8 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Roy H, the reigning champion sprinter, will not be the only runner in Saturday’s Grade 2 Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita from trainer Peter Miller’s stable.

Miller said on Wednesday that he plans to run the turf-stakes winner Conquest Tsunami in what is being considered an experiment.

“We want to try him on the dirt,” Miller said. “We know he’s fast. We know he’ll be up on the lead.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Cairo Cat, winner of the Grade 3 Iroquois at Churchill Downs in September, has been diagnosed with an undisclosed ailment and is off the Kentucky Derby trail.

Kenny McPeek posted on his Twitter account late Tuesday that Cairo Cat has been sent for further examination to Dr. Larry Bramlage at the Rood and Riddle veterinary clinic in Kentucky, adding the problem does not appear to be serious. Cairo Cat had been stabled at Payson Park in Florida and was nearing his first breeze of the year when the issue surfaced.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Drayden Van Dyke, who through Sunday was tied for fifth in the standings at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting with eight wins, will serve a three-day suspension from Saturday through Monday for a riding infraction at Santa Anita in September.

Van Dyke was cited for causing interference in a race on Sept. 28 and appealed the decision, which was issued the following day. The appeal was recently withdrawn.

Despite the suspension, Van Dyke, 24, will be allowed to ride the weekend’s three graded stakes, which are exempt from routine suspensions.