A field of 11, including the first four finishers from the Risen Star Stakes last month at Fair Grounds, was entered Saturday for the $1 million Louisiana Derby on March 26 at Fair Grounds.

Trainer Rudy Rodriguez said he’s still puzzled over the ninth-place finish by Dads Caps in the Grade 3 Tom Fool last week, but he doesn’t see anything physically wrong with the 6-year-old horse and still plans to run him in the Grade 1 Carter on April 9. Dads Caps has won the previous two runnings of the Carter, his only two wins over the last 27 months.

Joy Drive, a debut winner sprinting over Aqueduct’s inner track on March 5, likely will make his next start in the $100,000 Rushaway Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race run over a synthetic surface at Turfway Park on April 2.

Trainer Linda Rice purchased Joy Drive, a son of Quality Road, for $400,000 for owners Sheila Rosenblum and Irish Smith last year in part based on how the horse trained over the synthetic surface at the Ocala Training Center.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Adventist, the third-place finisher in both the Withers and Gotham stakes, and Cadeyrn, an 11-length maiden winner here last month, both put in workouts Friday morning as preparations for the Grade 1, $1 million Wood Memorial on April 9 began to pick up.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The giant Rainbow 6 jackpot survived a close call Thursday, with four horses alive for the entire jackpot of nearly $3.8 million going into the finale, including With a Kiss, who finished second in the maiden-claiming event on turf.

The last-race winner, Sweet Madea, was not covered among the nine tickets still alive going into the nightcap despite being a shorter price than With a Kiss and being ridden by the meet’s leading jockey, Javier Castellano.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Joel Rosario, who fractured his wrist in a spill during the stretch run of the Melody of Colors Stakes here on Feb. 20, is expected to return to the saddle April 1, his agent, Ron Anderson, said Friday. Anderson said he’s got mounts lined up for Rosario on Florida Derby Day, April 2.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Not only are the two top seeds for the Kentucky Derby, Mohaymen and Nyquist, on course to collide in the $1 million Florida Derby, they also are on similar training schedules, with each turning in his penultimate work Friday for the much-anticipated battle here April 2.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The $75,000 San Pedro Stakes was originally scheduled to be run March 11, but a severe storm that afternoon forced it – and two other races – to be canceled. It was brought back for Sunday’s card and drew a field of seven 3-year-olds, including Denman’s Call, who will try to earn a berth in the Santa Anita Derby.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Beholder has not raced since last fall, when she got sick at Keeneland just before an intended start against American Pharoah in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Given plenty of time to recover, she is now making serious headway toward a return to action, and that return seemed a lot closer after her workout at Santa Anita on Friday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – It was a breakfast with champions on Friday morning at Santa Anita, with Nyquist and Beholder turning in significant works, Nyquist for his showdown with Mohaymen in the Florida Derby on April 2 and Beholder for her comeback later this spring.