HOT SPRINGS, ARK. – Booth, who earned a meet-best Beyer Speed Figure of 105 last out at Oaklawn, is being pointed to the track’s Grade 3 Whitmore Stakes, trainer Steve Asmussen said.

Booth won the Commodore, a new overnight stakes, in his most recent start in Hot Springs.

◗ Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said plans for recent 3-year-old allowance route winner Bestfriend Rocket are being discussed with owner Frank Fletcher. Lukas said he is still finalizing stakes plans for some of the other quality 3-year-olds he has in the barn this season at Oaklawn.

G W’s Girl, who has won back-to-back sprint stakes at Oaklawn, is being considered for a start in the Grade 2, $400,000 Beaumont for 3-year-old fillies April 6 at Keeneland, according to her trainer, Greg Compton.

G W’s Girl won the $150,000 Mockingbird at six furlongs Jan. 4. She closed from off the pace and one start later raced with the leaders winning the $150,000 Dixie Belle at the same distance Feb. 24. G W’s Girl was the odds-on favorite and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 84.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Free Like a Girl could be making the penultimate start of her career Saturday in the Grade 2, $400,000 Azeri Stakes at Oaklawn Park, according to co-owner and trainer Chasey Deville Pomier.

Free Like a Girl ranks as the all-time-leading earner among Louisiana-breds. She has won 21 of 48 starts for earnings of $2,173,438. Free Like a Girl enters the Azeri off a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Bayakoa, beaten a head in the Feb. 1 race at Oaklawn. She is shipping back to Arkansas from Delta Downs.

Journalism was scheduled to resume training this week at Santa Anita, weather permitting, after a smashing victory March 1 in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes, his first start since Dec. 14, when he won the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity. Journalism won the San Felipe with a 108 Beyer Speed Figure, the highest San Felipe figure since California Chrome earned the same figure in 2014.

Even his understated trainer, Michael McCarthy, was impressed with Journalism.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer John Sadler will be after his first stakes win since early November when Alpha Bella starts in Saturday’s Grade 1 Beholder Mile for fillies and mares at Santa Anita.

Alpha Bella was withdrawn from the Grade 2 Buena Vista Stakes on turf at Santa Anita last Saturday. A 5-year-old, Alpha Bella worked a half-mile in 47 seconds on Sunday for the $300,000 Beholder Mile.

“She looked beautiful,” Sadler said. “She’s run well on both surfaces and we wanted to look at both races.”