The eight-race program at Santa Anita on Friday begins with a pick six carryover of $118,415.

There are not many horses for bettors to consider.

Friday’s pick six covers the third through eighth races, which have fields of 5, 7, 11, 6, 7, and 10.

Going into Thursday’s final race, only Magna Warrior was covered in the pick six. He was in contention until early stretch before fading in the final furlong.

Friday’s program begins at 12:30 p.m. Pacific. The first race of the pick six is due off at 1:29 p.m.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Jockey Ronnie Allen Jr. won four straight races on Thursday’s Tampa Bay Downs program to edge closer to leading rider Fernando De La Cruz for the top spot in the jockey standings.

Allen began his streak in the second race when he piloted Joe Tess ($8.60) to victory in a maiden special weight sprint at seven furlongs on the main track, then came back in the third on Philfig ($4.80), who outgamed Dreamboat Charlie.

What difference does a year make? Consider that when Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin welcomed in 2013 at Times Square 52 weeks ago, Gary Stevens was retired, D. Wayne Lukas hadn’t won a Triple Crown race since 2000, Shug McGaughey had yet to win a Kentucky Derby, Rick Dutrow was training, Ramon Dominguez was riding, and Hollywood Park was open.

All their lives were altered immeasurably during the following 12 months.

ARCADIA, Calif. – New Year’s Day, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has been retired because of a non-displaced chip atop the sesamoid in his left hind leg, trainer Bob Baffert announced on Thursday.

Mucho Macho Man, who returned from a five-month layoff recuperating from bacterial and viral infections to win back-to-back Grade 1 stakes, is the winner of the fourth annual Secretariat Vox Populi, or “Voice of the People,” Award.

The award recognizes the horse whose popularity and racing excellence best resounded with the American public and gained recognition for Thoroughbred racing.

Theodore Shapiro, a horse owner and breeder, died on Christmas Day at his home in Port Washington, N.Y. after a long illness. He was 84.

Shapiro raced horses in New York with trainer Howie Tesher. Among the best horses he owned was Evil’s Pic, a seven-time stakes winner who earned $437,877. When owned by Shapiro and trained by Tesher, Evil’s Pic won the Grade 3 Interborough Handicap, Ruthless and Dearly Precious stakes. She then raced in Southern California and won a minor stakes for trainer Bill Shoemaker.

Turfway Park entries for the Tuesday card are being drawn Saturday, and not Sunday, as is listed in the condition book, said track officials.

Double entries will be drawn Saturday for both the Monday and Tuesday programs. The change was made to allow Tuesday past performances to make print editions of Daily Racing Form.

Trainer Dan McFarlane notched career Thoroughbred training victory No. 1,000 when he sent out Enter Back to capture the ninth race Monday at Turf Paradise.

McFarlane, 48, has been training for 21 years and notched his first victory at Rillito Park in Tucson, Ariz., in 1989 with Avocado Green. The Pontiac, Ill., native then moved to Turf Paradise to train for Jim and Dennis Weir, annually among the top owners in Arizona.

ARCADIA, Calif. – New Year’s Day and Shared Belief figure to be two of the three finalists for the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old male, one of them figures to win the title, and both of them are based this winter at Santa Anita, part of a West Coast contingent for the 2014 Kentucky Derby that has both quality and depth.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Despite having won the 2013 Aqueduct spring meet title, jockey Cornelio Velasquez was on the verge of leaving New York for south Florida earlier this year. With the higher-profile riders about to return for the Belmont meet, Velasquez had lined up an agent to handle his business at Calder, a track at which he enjoyed success when he first came to the U.S. from Panama in the mid-1990s.