ARCADIA, Calif. – Victor Espinoza wore a familiar set of colors to victory aboard St. Joe Bay in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita – the dark green and white silks of owners Pete and Kosta Hronis. The victory was Espinoza’s first since returning to riding in February from a severe injury sustained last summer.

In the last few years, Espinoza has won the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap and Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita aboard Accelerate, and the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on Stellar Wind, two champions owned by Hronis Racing.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Champagne Anyone, the half-length winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks, was scheduled to arrive Wednesday at Churchill Downs, where she will continue preparations for the $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks on May 3.

Trainer Ian Wilkes said everything was “all good” Sunday morning with Champagne Anyone, who showed a new dimension by laying close to the pace Saturday, then holding off a late bid from race favorite Dunbar Road.

INDIANTOWN, Fla. – There was little time for trainer Bill Mott to wallow in the disappointment that was Hidden Scroll’s sixth-place finish in Saturday’s Grade 1 Florida Derby.

Twelve hours after one of his horses stepped off the Kentucky Derby trail, Mott watched another, Tacitus, put in his final workout for next Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Extra Hope, Roadster, and Synthesis – half the probable starters for Saturday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby – had their final prerace workouts on Sunday.

Roadster, who won an allowance race with an $80,000 claiming option at a mile in his 3-year-old debut on March 1, worked six furlongs in 1:12.60, the fastest of 19 works at the distance. The time was quicker than Roadster’s preceding workout – six furlongs in 1:14 – on March 26.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Jason Servis said all was well Sunday morning with his undefeated Florida Derby winner, Maximum Security, who earned a 101 Beyer Speed Figure for his relatively easy, wire-to-wire victory in the Grade 1 fixture here Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – With new guidelines in place designed to enhance safety, racing returned to Santa Anita on Friday for the first time since March 3 with the completion of an eight-race program.

The races were run safely to the relief of track officials and participants who were eager to resume racing after a series of equine fatalities since late December that led to the cancellation of 13 racing days for most of March.

David Cabrera, a leading rider in the Mid-South region who has not been named on horses the last two weeks due to a family emergency in Mexico, is scheduled to resume riding Tuesday at Will Rogers Downs. Cabrera is named to ride Welder in the $50,000 Highland Ice Stakes.

“He got back two, three days ago,” said agent Joe Santos Jr. “Back to Oklahoma. The plan is to ride Welder, and then we’ll go from there. We have a few horses lined up at Keeneland.”

Mr Money Bags, who has won back-to-back stakes at Sam Houston by a combined 18 1/2 lengths, is now eyeing graded company. Trainer Mike Neatherlin said the horse is being pointed for the Grade 3, $400,000 Pat Day Mile on May 4 at Churchill Downs.

Mr Money Bags has defeated restricted stakes company in his last two starts, winning a Texas Stallion Stakes division by 11 1/2 lengths on Feb. 23, then taking the Groovy for Texas-breds by seven lengths March 23. Both races came over six furlongs, and for each he earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 89.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas will be active in a pair of stakes next Saturday at Keeneland, with Market King being pointed for the Grade 2, $1 million Blue Grass and Warrior’s Club set to defend his title in the Grade 3, $250,000 Commonwealth.

Lukas said both horses will be ridden by Jon Court.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Omaha Beach, who has risen rapidly in the 3-year-old division in recent months, worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds at Santa Anita on Friday in preparation for the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park on April 13.

Working with a stablemate, Omaha Beach ran two wide and pulled clear under Alex Solis to record the quickest time of 25 works at the distance. Solis, the former jockey, assists trainer Richard Mandella and occasionally works horses.

Mandella timed Omaha Beach in 47.16 seconds and the colt finished several lengths clear of his stablemate.