OZONE PARK, N.Y. - For the second consecutive year the New York Racing Association will offer a bonus that could boost the purse of the Grade 2 Wood Memorial to $1 million from $750,000.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Competitionofideas rumbled past seven rivals to win her Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $301,035 American Oaks at Santa Anita.

The victory concluded an outstanding December for Eastern-based trainer Chad Brown – in California.

Brown had three Grade 1 wins in California in December, including Raging Bull in the Hollywood Derby and Uni in the Matriarch Stakes on the first weekend of the month at Del Mar.

“We’ve been fortunate to have success out West,” he said in a Sunday phone conversation on Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Paradise Woods, the winner of two Grade 1 races in 2017, was recently transferred from trainer Richard Mandella to John Shirreffs.

Owned by Steve Sarkowsky and Marty and Pam Wygod, Paradise Woods has not raced since a sixth-place finish in the restricted Osunitas Stakes on turf at Del Mar last August.

Paradise Woods, who will become a 5-year-old in 2019, has won 3 of 11 starts and earned $773,890.

“The owners decided to try something different,” Mandella said Sunday of the barn change.

The Saturday night Charles Town mandatory-payout pick six paid $2,859 for a 20-cent wager. There were 398 winning tickets.

There was a carryover of $252,508 into the final race card of the year at Charles Town, and an additional $1,006,170 was wagered into the single-ticket pick six.

The winners were Why Not Annie ($4.60), Cherubim ($3.20), Huehue ($60.40), Maninthemoon ($4.20), Shrove Tuesday ($20.80), and Got Any Questions ($7.80).

The pick-six jackpot had not been hit since Sept. 29, when it paid $146,170.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Breeders’ Cup Classic runner-up Gunnevera continued his preparations for the $9 million Pegasus World Cup by working five furlongs in 1:01.80 over his home base at Gulfstream Park West on Saturday.

Gunnevera worked in darkness at 6 a.m. with jockey Irad Ortiz Jr. in the saddle. The work was the fourth in as many weeks for Gunnevera, who will bring earnings of more than $4.1 million into the Pegasus World Cup. Ortiz, who rode Gunnevera for the first time in the Classic, has been aboard for all four of those works.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will not produce a 2019 promotional calendar, typically given away ontrack with paid admission on New Year’s Day at Aqueduct as well as being available for purchase online.

NYRA spokesman Pat McKenna said there were several factors that went into the decision not to offer a calendar this year, including some uncertainty over NYRA’s 2019 racing schedule.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Recruiting Ready, who won last Sunday’s Gravesend Stakes at Aqueduct, could make his next start at Oaklawn Park, trainer Stanley Hough said Friday.

Hough said Recruiting Ready would be pointed to races at six furlongs, and Oaklawn has three such stakes events: the $100,000 King Cotton on Feb. 9, the $150,000 Hot Springs on March 9, and the Grade 3, $400,000 Count Fleet Sprint Handicap on April 13. Recruiting Ready won the Bachelor Stakes by 5 1/4 lengths at Oaklawn last April.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Moretti, the $900,000 yearling purchase who won a 1 1/8-mile maiden race at Aqueduct on Dec. 20, will stay in New York for the time being and point to the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes here on Feb. 2, his connections said Friday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Le General, an impressive New York-bred allowance winner here on Dec. 9, was conspicuous by his absence from the nominations for Monday’s $100,000 Damon Runyon Stakes for 2-year-old statebreds and Tuesday’s $150,000 Jerome Stakes for newly turned 3-year-olds.

Trainer Michelle Nevin said there is nothing amiss with Le General, she just didn’t want to run him back too soon after he posted blowout victories three weeks apart this fall.

“We’re just giving him some time to bulk back up and get ready to go,” Nevin said Friday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Corey Nakatani has not placed a timeline on when he can come back from injuries suffered in a spill at Del Mar on Aug. 4.

Nakatani, a visitor to morning workouts at Santa Anita on Friday, said he is undergoing physical therapy and will seek advice from doctors on a return to riding.

In late September, Nakatani underwent surgery on his back and neck.

“I’ll keep doing therapy and see where it goes,” he said. “When I’m ready, I’ll come back. You can’t put a timeline on a broken neck. Hopefully, I’ll make it back.”