Alpha has been shipped to Palm Meadows, and Consortium has been sent North to take up residence at Belmont Park.

It's Alpha's second trip to Florida. He was sent to Belmont Park from Palm Meadows back on Dec. 28 and promptly won the Count Fleet Stakes before coming back a month later to take the Grade III Withers.

Following the Withers, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said Alpha would most likely make his next start in the Grade III Gotham or wait for the Grade I Wood Memorial. McLaughlin said earlier this week that the Wood Memorial is the likelier option.

“He shipped yesterday and is at Palm Meadows,” said McLaughlin today. “He’ll train here and probably won’t work for two weeks. There’s a plane going up to New York before the Gotham we could take, but he’ll probably make his next start in the Wood Memorial, with an outside chance of the Florida Derby the week before.”

Consortium prepped at Palm Meadows for a failed start in the Grade III Holy Bull on Jan. 29. He was redirected to New York yesterday.

“We sent Consortium on a van to New York,” said McLaughlin. “We’ll look at the Gotham with him. He worked at Palm Meadows on Thursday, and he probably won’t work in New York until (Feb. 18).”

McLaughlin said he has two possibles for the Grade III Tom Fool Handicap on the Gotham undercard in Darley Stable’s Emcee and Crossbow. Emcee is unbeaten in two starts, having rolled to a six-length allowance score on February 3 at Gulfstream in his most recent start, with Crossbow having taken an Aqueduct optional claimer by three lengths the same day.

“Emcee would probably be the horse, but Crossbow is another horse who could point for that race,” said McLaughlin.

Shadwell Stable’s Falaah, winner of two straight over the inner track, is no longer under consideration for the Tom Fool after exiting an optional claiming score with a bone chip, McLaughlin said.

--NYRA release with additional content by Dick Downey