Trainer Doug O’Neill, who is 4 for 8 at this Oaklawn Park meet, had a double Sunday, when the 3-year-olds Tyfosha and Shane Zain won maiden special weight races. Both could see stakes action in the near future.

Tyfosha stalked the pace in Sunday’s sprint and scored by 4 1/4 lengths while making her first start since running second to eventual multiple Grade 1 winner Moonshine Memories in a Del Mar maiden race in August. Tyfosha earned an 80 Beyer Speed Figure on Sunday in her fourth career start.

Sandy’s Surprise will be out to rack up a second stakes win in the Southwest when she invades for the Grade 3, $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic on Sunday at Sam Houston Race Park. The Southern California-based runner shipped to New Mexico last November to win the $300,000 Zia Park Oaks, and following that race, her connections targeted the Houston Ladies Classic, the richest Thoroughbred race in Texas.

“This was the original plan after we were fortunate in her previous out-of-town race,” trainer Doug O’Neill said. “We think we’ve got her right on target to run a big race.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Pee Wee Reese, winner of the Joe Hernandez Stakes on the hillside turf course Jan. 1, will have his next start in the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes on Feb. 10 and will not run in Saturday’s $200,000 California Cup Turf Classic at Santa Anita.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said the distance of the $100,000 Thunder Road Stakes at a mile on turf had greater appeal than the Turf Classic, which is run at 1 1/8 miles on turf.

“I’m going to wait,” D’Amato said. “I think the extra eighth of a mile could catch up to him.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Multiple stakes winner Silent Bird was undergoing assessment late Wednesday morning after sustaining a leg injury in a workout earlier in the day at Santa Anita.

“We’re going to try to save him,” trainer Mark Glatt said at his stable. “He suffered a pretty serious injury.”

The winner of the Grade 3 Midnight Lute Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs on Dec. 30, Silent Bird was pulled up shortly after finishing a three-furlong workout in 36.20 seconds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Steve Asmussen has done all he can to get Gun Runner ready for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup on Saturday at Gulfstream Park. That’s in his control. What he couldn’t control was the draw for the race Wednesday, and it made him anxious, what with 12 horses drawing for a 1 1/8-mile race that has an abrupt run before they all turn left.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – When Coniah won the Grade 3 Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita last Saturday, the occasion marked career win No. 1,568 for trainer William E. Morey. More importantly, Morey finally had his first graded stakes win, a victory that brought a sense of relief.

“We can put that to rest,” Morey reflected in his stable office last Sunday.

International riding star Frankie Dettori figured he’d get accustomed to the Gulfstream Park racing surface prior to riding Toast of New York in the Pegasus World Cup on Saturday. Dettori is named on three horses, all trained by Dale Romans, in consecutive races Friday – Izzy the Warrior (race 8), Sportscaster (race 9), and Driver’s Girl (race 10).

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – One allowance (race 10) and one optional-claiming starter (race 5) are part of an 11-race Friday card otherwise filled with maiden and/or claiming races on yet another Gulfstream Park program for which the Rainbow 6 is the main storyline.

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will span races 6 to 11, with first post set for 12:35 p.m. Eastern and the Rainbow sequence to kick off at 3:02. The Rainbow 6 began Wednesday with $3,129,358 in a jackpot pool that has not been swept by a solo winning ticket since Dec. 7.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Champagne Room, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2016, has been retired and sold privately to Japanese interests, trainer Peter Eurton said Wednesday.

Champagne Room was recently diagnosed with a hairline fracture in a foot that would have required a lengthy recovery time. Last week, Eurton said the partnership that owns the filly was contemplating a private sale, or keeping Champagne Room in training.

On Wednesday, Eurton said Champagne Room is at his stable at Santa Anita but is expected to be exported to Japan in coming weeks.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Caledonia Road, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and a top contender for the Eclipse Award in that division, which was to be announced Thursday night, is “about a month behind” getting set for her 3-year-old debut after having surgery to remove a small chip from a front ankle, trainer Ralph Nicks said Wednesday morning at Gulfstream Park.