ARCADIA, Calif. – Stone Hands was beaten 15 lengths in his stakes debut in the Shared Belief Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile at Del Mar last summer.

Stone Hands has not raced at a mile since then. He has been in brilliant form in sprint races leading to his graded stakes debut in Saturday’s Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita. The $250,000 San Carlos Stakes is run at seven furlongs.

Trained by Doug O’Neill for Paul and Zillah Reddam, Stone Hands has won optional claimers in his last two starts, at 5 1/2 furlongs on May 4 and 6 1/2 furlongs on May 28.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 2-year-old colt Parsimony, who starts in Friday’s fourth race, has six stablemates of his age that won a maiden race at the spring-summer meeting at Santa Anita.

The success of those 2-year-olds is a main reason why Doug O’Neill led all trainers through Sunday with 29 wins at the meeting.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Justify had a quiet morning of being walked at trainer Bob Baffert’s stable at Santa Anita on Wednesday.There may be several days like that in the next few weeks for the Triple Crown winner.

With Justify not expected to start until late July at the earliest, Baffert said on Wednesday that the colt will have a slow training schedule for the rest of this month.

“We’ll go easy for the next two weeks off and on,” Baffert said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher has never been a big fan of the Summit of Speed and typically has declined to ship horses from New York to South Florida to compete in the event amid the summer heat.

Laurel Park rider Steve Hamilton is sidelined with lower back pain, according to his agent, Ben Feliciano Sr. Hamilton, who has not ridden since June 10, was scheduled to see a specialist Wednesday.

Hamilton has been having back pain since he went down in a spill at the Laurel Park winter meet, according to Feliciano. The Laurel meet concluded May 6.

“He’s been in a lot of pain,” Feliciano said. “We talked it over and decided to find out exactly what’s going on rather than him just trying to ride through it.”

Monmouth Park had a very successful Father’s Day from a business standpoint, with attendance, ontrack betting, and all-sources handle up markedly from last year.

Father’s Day is the second most heavily attended program of the Monmouth season after the Haskell Invitational card. Last year, announced attendance was 18,527 and $830,730 was wagered ontrack on Monmouth’s races. All-sources handle on Monmouth’s card was more than $4.1 million.

Popular East Coast racing announcer Larry Lederman has had a rough year physically and personally, but the proton therapy he recently completed proved successful and, besides some “collateral damage,” he is doing remarkably well healthwise.

Lederman was diagnosed with a brain tumor in April 2011. The tumor proved manageable until last fall when an MRI revealed it had grown in size. In January, at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, surgeons were able to remove 70 percent of the tumor.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Trainer Bret Calhoun has opted to pass on the $75,000 Roxelana here Saturday with Finley’sluckycharm, who surely would have been a heavy favorite in the six-furlong race. Instead, Finley’sluckycharm, who has been working steadily here since June 3, will make her next start July 25 in the Honorable Miss at Saratoga, said Calhoun.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Only a few lengths separate the best turf milers from the also-rans. World Approval earned a divisional Eclipse Award last fall after winning the Breeders’ Cup Mile, but now the gray 6-year-old gelding is in no man’s land following two subpar starts.

ELMONY, N.Y. – It’s been quite the Belmont spring-summer meet for trainer Jason Servis, who has won with 12 of his 24 starters including four stakes wins.

He hopes the good times continue the remaining four weeks, especially on July 7 when he plans to run Firenze Fire in the Grade 3, $300,000 Dwyer Stakes going a mile.

The last time Firenze Fire raced a mile at Belmont, he won the Grade 1 Champagne last fall.

Firenze Fire finished 11th in the Kentucky Derby. Has worked twice since, including a five-furlong move in 1:01.40 on June 11 under Irad Ortiz Jr.