ARCADIA, Calif. - Dream Tree will start the spring with a perfect record and a growing reputation in the 3-year-old filly division.

Dream Tree won her 3-year-old debut in the Grade 2 Las Virgenes Stakes at a mile Sunday at Santa Anita. Sent off at 3-10, Dream Tree had a perfect trip before pulling clear to win by 3 3/4 lengths for her third stakes win.

Last fall, she won the minor Desi Arnaz Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar in November and the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Los Alamitos in December.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The racing week of Feb. 1-4 at Santa Anita was very kind to jockey Rajiv Maragh.

After winning with two of his first 57 mounts at the winter-spring meeting that began Dec. 26, Maragh rebounded to win four races from 11 mounts last week.

The turnaround has left Maragh on the verge of cracking the top 10 on a tough jockey’s roster. Through Sunday, Maragh was tied for 11th with five other riders.

This is the first year Maragh has ridden in Southern California, having relocated from New York in December.

Jockey Dylan Davis enjoyed his best day as a professional rider Sunday, winning five races from eight mounts on the nine-race Aqueduct card.

It was Davis’s first five-win day on the New York Racing Association circuit. On June 28, 2013, as an apprentice, Davis won five races at Indiana Grand Race Course.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Todd Pletcher said Audible came out of his stunning, one-sided victory in Saturday’s Holy Bull in good order, but admitted even he was a little surprised at the ease of his rapidly improving 3-year-old's win in the Grade 2, Kentucky Derby prep.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Joe Bravo said Avery Island is a physically talented colt who still has more to learn. Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said he may give Avery Island two more starts to get the education necessary for the Kentucky Derby.

Avery Island made a successful 3-year-old debut Saturday at Aqueduct, winning the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes by two lengths over multiple stakes winner Firenze Fire. McLaughlin said Sunday morning that Avery Island came out of the race in good shape and would return to the Palm Meadows training center in south Florida on Tuesday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A busy 2018 has put Lombo on the Triple Crown trail after a front-running win in Saturday’s Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita.

Lombo won his second consecutive race in his third start of the young year in the $151,380 Lewis Stakes at 1 1/16 miles. A colt who began 2018 as a maiden has quickly developed into a graded stakes winner.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A total of 23 grass specialists were nominated for the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf here next Saturday, with seven coming from Mike Maker’s barn.

Maker’s strong contingent includes Shining Copper, last year’s runner-up in the Gulfstream Park Turf, and Grade 1 winner Bigger Picture, along with Galton, Granny’s Kitten, Oscar Nominated, Sir Dudley Digges, and Tizzarunner. Among the other big names on the list are All Included, Blacktype, Forge, Heart to Heart, March, and Money Multiplier.

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mind Your Biscuits gave every indication he’s close to his 2018 debut after working five furlongs in 1:00 before galloping out six furlongs in 1:12.40 with Irad Ortiz Jr. aboard Friday at Palm Meadows.

“He went out seven furlongs in 1:14.80 and a mile in 1:37 according to the track clocker,” trainer Chad Summers said a short while later.

Asked what Ortiz told him after the breeze, Summers simply said, “He’s ready.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The theory that horses who like synthetic surfaces will also relish the grass will be put to the test here Sunday when defending Queen’s Plate winner Holy Helena makes her turf debut under third-level allowance and optional-claiming conditions for trainer Jimmy Jerkens.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bolt d’Oro, a two-time Grade 1 winner in 2017, worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Friday, his second workout of the year.

Bolt d’Oro is a candidate for the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on March 10, a key prep for the $1 million Santa Anita Derby on April 7. On Friday, Bolt d’Oro was exercised by jockey Agapito Delgadillo, who works for owner and trainer Mick Ruis in the mornings. Bolt d’Oro worked alone and continued the exercise beyond a half-mile.