Trainer Todd Pletcher doesn’t plan to run anything in Monday’s $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, but he is already looking forward to the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes on Feb. 3, where he plans to run the $2 million auction purchase Marconi.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Seven Trumpets has yet to receive the fanfare allotted other members of trainer Dale Romans’s arsenal of soon-to-be 3-year-old males hoping to jump on the Triple Crown trail. That could change Monday when Seven Trumpets kicks off his 3-year-old season in the $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct.

Though no longer graded and now run at a one-turn mile, the Jerome is the first race of 2018 that will offer qualifying points toward the May 5 Kentucky Derby. There are 17 points (10-4-2-1) awarded to the Jerome’s top four finishers.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Live racing scheduled for Thursday at Aqueduct was canceled due to extreme cold, which is forecast to return over the weekend.

Thursday’s forecast called for a high temperature of 20 degrees with wind speeds from 15 to 25 miles per hour, creating wind chills in the single digits. Racing is scheduled to resume Friday with temperatures slightly higher and wind speeds slightly lower.

Forever Unbridled, the Breeders’ Cup Distaff winner last month at Del Mar, remains in training at Fair Grounds, but no plans – either for retirement or racing – have yet been made for the 5-year-old mare, trainer Dallas Stewart said.

Stewart and owner Charles Fipke have Seeking the Soul for the Pegasus World Cup next month at Gulfstream, a race in which Fipke originally said he would start Forever Unbridled. Forever Unbridled worked Dec. 11 at Fair Grounds but has not breezed since.

Valadorna knocked out the first stakes win of her career Tuesday at Fair Grounds in the $50,000 Tiffany Lass Stakes.

“Now we can think about taking on the big girls,” trainer Mark Casse said.

Trainer Mark Casse will have two fillies, Heavenly Love and Wonder Gadot, in New Orleans for the first 3-year-old dirt-route stakes of the Fair Grounds season on Jan. 13, but both might not run in the same race.

Heavenly Love, as has been the plan for several weeks now, will race against fillies in the Silverbulletday Stakes, but Wonder Gadot could step outside her own sex to face males in the Lecomte Stakes, Casse said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The well-traveled Daddys Lil Darling will race at her seventh track this year when she starts in Saturday’s Grade 1 American Oaks at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – It’s official: The 3-year-old colt Bowies Hero is best at a mile on turf.

On Tuesday, Bowies Hero won his fourth stakes in the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile against 3-year-olds at Santa Anita. All the stakes wins have been at a mile on turf. Trainer Phil D’Amato said he might start Bowies Hero in the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile against older horses on March 10.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Giant Expectations may start in an eight-figure race after winning Tuesday’s Grade 2 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita.

Trainer Peter Eurton said on Wednesday that Giant Expectations will be considered for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 27 or the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on March 24. He stopped well short of committing to either world-class race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association announced Wednesday it will be sponsoring a new Florida Sire Stakes race, the $150,000 Wildcat Heir. The race is for FSS-eligible 3-year-olds and up and will be run at a mile on the dirt Sept. 29 at Gulfstream Park.

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