With an emphasis on 2-year-olds and the first New York-bred Showcase Day at Saratoga, the stakes program for horses bred in New York has received significant purse enhancements for 2014, according to a release Monday from the New York Thoroughbred Breeders Inc.

Between the three New York Racing Association tracks – Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga – as well as Finger Lakes, a total of 69 New York-bred stakes worth $8.6 million will be run this year. The purses for New York-bred stakes run at NYRA tracks have been increased by $485,000 over 2013.

ARCADIA, Calif. -- Fueled by a two-day carryover of $226,505, another $1 million was bet into the pick six on Saturday at Santa Anita, and 10 tickets correctly had the tricky sequence and were rewarded with a payoff of $77,394.20.

There were 373 tickets with five of six correct, each worth $630.

Longshots and mid-priced horses dominated the first five legs, including Let Faith Arise in the featured Grade 1 Santa Margarita Stakes. The only favorite to prevail came in the finale, when Whine for Wine got up late to win, returning $3.80.

Honey Fox Stakes (Gulfstream, Race 10) by Marty McGee

Wow, doesn’t this one have a ton of interesting variables?

Is Centre Court (#6) ready, and is she still a Grade 1-caliber mare? Isn’t Tapicat (#7) in peak form, having run very creditably in a SoCal Grade 2 after leaving out of SoFla with a stakes win over the GP turf? Isn’t Triple Charm (#2) primed for a peak effort in her third start following a layoff? And is Parranda (#5) good enough to handle what amounts to another big class raise?

Jockey Calvin Borel is now a card-carrying member of the Screen Actors Guild.

The three-time Kentucky Derby-winning rider who last year was inducted into the National Horse Racing Hall of Fame will hit the big screen on Wednesday. Borel plays himself in the new movie “50 to  1” that chronicles the story of Mine That Bird. The premiere is Wednesday in Albuquerque, N.M., with the film to open in the state on Friday, March 21.

For years, Rillito Park, in Tucson, Ariz., has been doing as poet Dylan Thomas advised – to not go gentle into that good night.

But go it might.

Blue Grass Farms Charities, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing social services to Thoroughbred industry members in Central Kentucky, held its annual election of officers and directors, with four new members added to the board.

The charity has served approximately 2,500 members of the Thoroughbred industry through programs such as emergency financial aid, food, clothing, a Christmas party, health clinics, and education.

The following members were added to the board of directors:

- Dr. Thomas Riddle, a founding partner in Rood & Riddle Equine Hospital

The Virginia Racing Commission on Monday will ask the state’s racing constituents to once again discuss their plans for racing dates in 2014 after a negotiating session failed to resolve stark differences between Colonial Downs and the Virginia Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association.