ARCADIA, Calif. – Dalmore, a Grade 3 stakes winner in 2016, was bought privately by Ron Paolucci last week and has been transferred from trainer Keith Desormeaux to Bob Hess Jr. in advance of an expected start in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap on March 10.

The deal was completed days after Dalmore won an optional claimer at 1 1/16 miles by 8 1/2 lengths on Feb. 15 at Santa Anita in his first start since last summer.

“I’ve watched him and become a fan,” Hess said. “I was blown away with his win the other day.”

A matchup of Grade 1 winners is shaping up for the March 10 Hillsborough Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs, with Daddys Lil Darling and La Coronel both being pointed to the Grade 2 turf race.

Daddys Lil Darling, winner of the Grade 1 American Oaks to end 2017, is likely to make her 4-year-old debut in the $200,000 Hillsborough when rematched with La Coronel, who beat her a half-length when they ran one-two in the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup in October.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Veteran rider Jose Ferrer, winner of 4,214 races, is the winner of the 2018 George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, it was announced Monday by Santa Anita, which has presented the award annually since 1950.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - A handful of potential Fountain of Youth starters, including reigning juvenile champion Good Magic and the Dale Romans trio of Free Drop Billy, Storm Runner, and Promises Fulfilled, turned in their final preps for that race Saturday.

At Palm Meadows, Good Magic breezed an easy half-mile in 48.40 before going out a full six furlongs in 1:15.20, according to Daily Racing Form’s Donald Harris. Good Magic worked solo this morning after having gone in company with no less a mate as the older, Grade 1-placed Economic Model in his previous two works.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Led by the unbeaten 3-year-old McKinzie, a number of top-class stakes runners worked on a cold, clear Saturday morning at Santa Anita for races here or out of town. Among those on the tab were Kentucky Derby prospects Restoring Hope and Solomini, as well as Santa Anita Handicap hopefuls Accelerate and Pavel.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A fan who ran onto the training track and was apprehended by Santa Anita security forces shortly before Friday's third race is a minor who will be charged with interfering with a sporting event, a misdemeanor, and was turned over to the Arcadia Police Department for processing, Mike Pytel, an investigator with Santa Anita's security department, said Friday.

Trainer Danny Pish on Sunday begins serving a 15-day suspension for a medication violation in November at Retama Park, according to a ruling from the Texas Racing Commission.

The suspension extends to other jurisdictions where Pish races, including Arkansas and Louisiana. The suspension runs through March 11. Joseph Smith, who has been an assistant to Pish, was named as the trainer of record for former Pish horses entered in races Sunday at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.

My Boy Jack and Sonneteer, who have shipped in to win separate stakes this meet at Oaklawn, could both return for upcoming races, Southern California-based trainer Keith Desormeaux said Tuesday.

The first race at Arapahoe Park, on June 26, 2010, was won by Forest Mouse, a first-time starter who went off at 6-1 and has since gone on to become one of New Mexico’s most noted handicap horses. On Sunday, he may call it a career following a start in the $75,000 Curribot at Sunland Park.

Forest Mouse, a 10-year-old who has raced every year since his career debut in Colorado, is $2,693 from becoming a millionaire. If he hits the milestone by finishing between first through fourth Sunday, plans are to retire him to stud, trainer Henry Dominguez said Thursday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Nero, second in the San Vicente Stakes on Feb. 10, and Ax Man, fourth as the favorite in that race, both had easy half-mile drills Thursday as they ready for their next starts, which could come out of town, trainer Bob Baffert said.

“I’m going to nominate a bunch of horses to a bunch of races and take a look,” he said. “They’ll be nominated everywhere.”