OZONE PARK, N.Y. – In Equality, the third-place finisher in the Grade 3 Jerome Stakes here Jan. 2, was scheduled to leave Belmont Park by van on Friday and head to Louisiana for the Grade 2, $400,000 Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds on Feb. 20.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Only four horses were entered Wednesday for Saturday’s $100,000 Fred “Cappy” Capossela Stakes, and the racing office opted not to card it. It will be brought back for Sunday’s card – entries were to be taken Thursday – to see if more horses may be entered.

Jan’s Reserve, the winner of the King’s Swan Stakes and the runner-up to King Kranz in the Lost in the Fog Stakes, was not entered for Saturday. Trainer Michael Dilger informed stakes coordinator Andrew Byrnes that the horse had a foot issue that prevented him from running.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Vincento had six weeks between his first start and his second start and seven weeks between his second start and his third. On Saturday, Vincento will make his second start in one week when he runs in the $100,000 Gander Stakes for New York-bred 3-year-olds at Aqueduct.

The Gander is the featured event on a 10-race card that begins at 12:20 p.m. Eastern. The Gander, which goes as race 3, was going to share the spotlight with the $100,000 Fred “Cappy” Capossela Stakes, but that six-furlong race for 3-year-olds failed to fill.

The retirement of Eclipse Award winner La Verdad last weekend has resulted in added interest from horsemen for the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie Stakes, according to Coley Blind, stakes coordinator for the Maryland Jockey Club. But as of Wednesday, the field for the $300,000 Fritchie, a seven-furlong race for older fillies and mares at Laurel Park on Feb. 13, remained in flux, according to Blind.

Seven-pound apprentice Kali Francois hasn’t looked back since closing the books on 2015. She won with four of her seven mounts at Laurel Park last week, including the Monday nightcap aboard 95-1 Rocky Garland. The only other member of the Laurel jockey colony to win more than three races was leading reinsman Trevor McCarthy, who went 8 for 29.

Greenpointcrusader, who finished second to Mohaymen in the Holy Bull Stakes last Saturday at Gulfstream Park, will have just one more race prior to the Kentucky Derby, trainer Dominick Schettino said Wednesday, with his preference being the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds on March 26.

“I just want to run him one more time between now and the Derby,” Schettino said. “I just wanted him to have two races this year before the Derby.”

Schettino said his other choice as a final Derby prep for Greenpointcrusader would be the Grade 1 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 9.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The lineup for Saturday’s Grade 1 Donn Handicap has pretty much been a foregone conclusion for the past week. The only real question was where trainer Marcus Vitali would run the multiple graded stakes winner Valid, whom he’d also nominated to Saturday’s Grade 3 Fred Hooper, a race he won here a year ago.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Closing Bell was a player in the 3-year-old turf niche last year, finishing second in the Grade 1 Secretariat before winning the Dueling Grounds Derby and finishing second in the Bryan Station on Breeders’ Cup weekend at Keeneland.

But with the turn of the calendar, his focus has shifted away from the grass. Closing Bell, owned by WinStar Farm and trained by Bill Mott, will make his 4-year-old debut Saturday at Gulfstream Park in the $500,000 Donn Handicap, a Grade 1 race at 1 1/8 miles on dirt.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Mark Martinez made an attempt to sell Street Fancy – on his terms.

Last February, Street Fancy went through the ring at the Barretts sale of select 2-year-olds in training in Pomona, Calif., but was bought back for $400,000. Martinez recalled recently that live bidding stopped at $385,000, short of the reserve of $419,000.

Nearly a year later, Martinez has a filly worth more.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Some 48 hours later, Mark Casse was still digesting the humble pie he was force-fed Saturday at Gulfstream Park. Seemingly loaded for bear, the Casse stable had a hugely disappointing day when stakes horses such as Conquest Big E, Conquest Bebop, and Conquest Daddyo all ran subpar races.