Nic’s Style is rapidly become a barn favorite for Bill Mott.

Nic’s Style won her fourth straight stakes – and notched her seventh win from eight career starts – when she got up late to beat R Disaster by a neck in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie.

“She’s just a win machine, isn’t she?” Mott said. “I wish they all had her determination. Every time she just finds a way to get it done.”

Prior to her victory the Hurricane Bertie, Nic’s Style won the Pumpkin Pie at Aqueduct in November and the City of Ocala Stakes and Minaret at Tampa Bay Downs.

Sovereignty, neck winner of the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth on March 1, is virtually certain to make his next start in the Grade 1 Florida Derby on March 29, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday.

“We’re 95 percent sure we’re going to the Florida Derby as long as he’s okay,” Mott said.

There also was the option of waiting a week and running in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Blue Grass on April 5 at Keeneland.

Dylan Davis, who has enjoyed a super winter riding at Gulfstream Park for the first time in over a decade, will return to New York in April to start riding at Aqueduct, agent Mike Migliore said.

While Davis will be based at Aqueduct, he will ride when needed at Keeneland, including on April 4, opening day of that track’s meet, when he rides La Cara in the Grade 1 Ashland.

Crazy Mason has provided trainer Gregg Sacco with two of his six wins at the Aqueduct winter meet, rallying from last to win in first- and second-level allowance conditions.

On Feb. 21, Crazy Mason was 12 lengths back in a five-horse field when he rallied from last at the eighth pole to win by 2 1/2 lengths, earning a career-best 92 Beyer Speed Figure.

“I thought we might get a piece. I didn’t expect that,” Sacco said.

Rebel winner Coal Battle emerged from a Wednesday breeze in good order and was scheduled to return to the track Saturday, said trainer Lonnie Briley. The horse went a half-mile in 49.40 seconds.

“He worked that real easy half and he was smiling about it,” Briley said. “He’s doing good, feeling great.”

Briley said he is still determining whether Coal Battle will run back in the Arkansas Derby or await the Kentucky Derby.

Mixto, the upset winner of the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar last August, has been invited to the $12 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on April 5, trainer Doug O’Neill said on Friday.

Mixto has started once this year, finishing fourth of 11 in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup at 1 1/4 miles at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25. Mixto was beaten 8 1/4 lengths by runaway winner White Abarrio, and was two lengths behind second-place finisher Locked.

Last Saturday, Locked returned to record an easy win in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap at Santa Anita.

Gaming, a finalist for the Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding 2-year-old of 2024 but a disappointing eighth in the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Jan. 25, worked six furlongs in 1:12.60 on the infield all-weather training track at Santa Anita on Friday for a scheduled start in the $500,000 Virginia Derby at Colonial Downs on March 15.

Gaming worked in company with stablemate Toughness, a maiden race winner in January. Toughness was given the same time as Gaming.

A week after he finished last of seven in the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita, Air Force Red has been entered in Saturday’s Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes for turf sprinters at Santa Anita.

Trainer Leonard Powell said on Friday that Air Force Red’s rapid recovery made the $100,000 San Simeon Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course a possibility. Entries for the San Simeon were taken on Monday, less than 48 hours after Air Force Red ran in the Kilroe Mile.

Churchill Downs has raised the purse of the American Turf Stakes to $1 million, a $400,000 increase over 2024, after the race was designated a Grade 1 by the American Graded Stakes Committee late last year.

The American Turf, for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles on the grass, will be one of 22 stakes races run during Kentucky Derby week worth a total of $17.9 million, according to a stakes schedule Churchill released on Friday. The 43-day meet will include a total of 50 stakes worth $26.2 million.

Assiniboia Downs has announced that its 50-day 2025 meet will runs from May 13 to Oct. 8.

Racing will be conducted on Tuesdays and Wednesdays until June. Mondays will be added to the schedule on June 2, June 23, July 14, Aug. 4, Aug. 25, and Sept. 15. Post time is 7:30 p.m. Central for all dates.