DEL MAR, Calif. – Mo Forza and Next Shares are likely to start in Grade 2 stakes in the opening days of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting after winning major stakes at Del Mar on Saturday.

Mo Forza won his third consecutive start, and first Grade 1, in the $302,457 Hollywood Derby at 1 1/8 miles on turf. He will be considered for the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile, a $200,000 turf race on Dec. 26, the opening day of the track’s meeting.

“That makes sense,” trainer Peter Miller said. “We’ll enjoy this for a few days.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The final five races of Sunday’s Aqueduct card were canceled when the jockeys refused to ride, citing icy conditions.

There was a combination of rain and wind and the temperatures were in the low 30s during the running of the first four races.

Kendrick Carmouche, who won the first race, said the jockeys were concerned about the “ice getting worse and worse throughout the day.

The New York State Gaming Commission will conduct a hearing on Dec. 18 to determine whether to suspend or revoke the license of trainer Linda Rice due to actions alleged to be “detrimental to the best interests of racing generally and corrupt and improper acts and practices in relation to racing,” according to a notice posted on the Commission website.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Performer and Tax, the first two finishers from Saturday’s Grade 3 Discovery Stakes at Aqueduct, will both soon be headed to South Florida, but only one is likely to target the $9 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25.

Performer, who beat Tax by 1 1/4 lengths for his fourth straight victory, will be given a break by trainer Shug McGaughey and point to a 4-year-old campaign that could begin in the Grade 1 Carter, a seven-furlong race typically run at Aqueduct in early April.

Southern California-based trainer Richard Baltas has had a run of stakes success on the road this year, with his latest such winner Motion Emotion in the $250,000 Zia Park Oaks on Wednesday.

His other out-of-state stakes victories in 2019 have come at Belmont Park, Churchill Downs, Keeneland, and Kentucky Downs.

Motion Emotion was due to arrive back home from New Mexico on Friday. Baltas said she will be nominated to the Grade 1, $300,000 La Brea, a seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies on Dec. 26. The race is at her base of Santa Anita.

Bobby’s Wicked One beat only two foes winning the $100,000 Thanksgiving Classic on Thursday, but he ran a sharp six furlongs in 1:08.68, a raw time that produced a 100 Beyer Speed Figure, equaling Bobby’s Wicked One’s career best.

Trainer Al Stall said Friday that Bobby’s Wicked One had come out of that performance, his second start following an extended layoff, in good shape.

“That’s a tough little horse,” Stall said.

Bobby’s Wicked One tentatively is being pointed to the Duncan Kenner Stakes on Jan. 18 at Fair Grounds.

Mr Jess Jenkins will make his first start since winning the $3 million All American Futurity on Labor Day in Sunday’s $150,000 Southwest Juvenile Invitational Championship at Zia Park. The race is one of five stakes for Quarter Horses on the program, and those races are worth a collective $595,000.

Mr Jess Jenkins was a neck winner of the All American at Ruidoso Downs. The race is the richest offering for Quarter Horses, and the magnitude of the win was not lost on trainer Marcos Carrizales, a 23-year-old from a racing family.

One hundred years ago, it was a challenge getting from New Orleans to Los Angeles, and even now, the connections of 3-year-old filly Bell’s the One are trying to figure out how to make the trip.

Trainer Neil Pessin and owner Bob Lothenbach would like to run Bell’s the One in the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita, but the logistics of shipping to that race from Fair Grounds are proving challenging.

“We want to run in the La Brea, but that’s transportation pending. It’s a little tricky from here,” Pessin said earlier this week.

Mr Money Bags wrapped up his 3-year-old season Wednesday by winning the biggest race of his career in the $250,000 Zia Park Derby. He returned to the North Texas farm of trainer Mike Neatherlin on Thanksgiving and on Tuesday will head to his winter base of Sam Houston Race Park.

“It was a pretty good year,” Neatherlin said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Mother Nature has forced the New York Racing Association to reschedule four turf stakes.

Strong winds forced NYRA to cancel Aqueduct’s Thanksgiving Day card,, which included the Central Park Stakes for 2-year-olds and the Winter Memories for fillies and mares. The Central Park is rescheduled for Friday while the Winter Memories is now slated for Saturday.

Sunday’s card was to include the Tepin Stakes for 2-year-old fillies and the Autumn Days for female sprinters, but with rain in the forecast NYRA officials opted not to card those races.