ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita’s eight-race Sunday program, which was canceled due to a severe rainstorm, will reappear Thursday and Friday along with a return of something often taken for granted in Southern California – the sun. An unusually wet January has created a challenge for racing personnel and horsemen. Sunday’s cancellation was the second of the meet, training has been disrupted, and the turf course has not been used since Jan. 16. It all changes this week. “There is light at the end of the tunnel,” racing secretary Rick Hammerle said. “We’re glad sunshine is ahead.” The forecast calls for sunny skies prior to the resumption of racing Thursday. Although the turf course will not be used until Saturday, when the five-stakes California Cup card includes three stakes on turf, all eight canceled dirt races Sunday were redrawn to be used this week – four on Thursday, four on Friday. The Thursday card includes three good sprints for fillies. The well-regarded Paradise Woods debuts in race 2, a maiden special weight that was postponed Sunday; the impressive maiden winner Venezuelan Gold makes her local debut in race 4, a starter allowance; and Ready to Hula Lula seeks her second straight win in race 7, a California-bred allowance delayed from Sunday. Paradise Woods concedes experience to a pair of worthy rivals. Princess Julia finished second with a creditable 80 Beyer Speed Figure last out, and Kenda finished fourth after a slow start in her debut. Paradise Woods, however, has demonstrated above-average ability in workouts for trainer Richard Mandella and is likely to fire first out. Sired by Union Rags and a sibling to the Mandella-trained stakes sprinter Forest Chatter, Paradise Woods and jockey Flavien Prat outworked company in several team drills. Mandella said Paradise Woods “has shown some serious talent.” In race 4, Venezuelan Gold makes her first start in California and her first for trainer Peter Miller. The starter allowance is a class hike for the filly, purchased privately from her breeders after a smashing debut in a $12,500 maiden-claiming race Nov. 19 at Gulfstream Park West. Venezuelan Gold was shuffled back early, climbed and raced greenly while visibly uncomfortable, lost position, fell back to next-to-last, rerallied wide, bulldozed her way through tight quarters between two rivals, and won going away. Her low 49 Beyer does little justice to the effort. Venezuelan Gold has posted four workouts at Miller’s San Luis Rey base since arriving in California and should be tough to be beat from the outside post under jockey Kent Desormeaux. There is pace to run at: Gogoula, Fallout, and Rally Back have speed. Tawny moves up after a nine-length maiden romp, and Princess Leia overcame trouble to win a maiden race on sloppy going. She ran much better than her 52 Beyer indicates. Still, Venezuelan Gold looks like the most probable winner on the card. She’ll be ridden by Desormeaux. Race 7 favorite Ready to Hula Lula landed a favorable post when the race was redrawn for Thursday. A sharp maiden winner last out over a “good” track at Del Mar, Ready to Hula Lula starts from post 6 in the seven-horse field of statebred female sprinters. Mark Glatt trains Ready to Hula Lula, whose rider is Prat. Her main rival is the veteran Zuzu’s Petals, a two-time winner at the level entered for the optional $20,000 claim tag. ◗ There is a carryover of $31,623 in the $1 super high five on Thursday’s eighth race at Santa Anita.