English Soul, the 2 3/4-length winner of Sunday’s East View Stakes for New York-bred fillies, will likely make her next start in the $200,000 Busher Stakes on March 3, trainer Ray Handal said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Ron Spatz said Mo Cash couldn’t be doing any better after the graded stakes-placed speedster blew out three-eighths in 34.68 seconds here Monday for the $100,000 Sunshine Millions Sprint. But Spatz also knows Mo Cash will be facing his stiffest challenge yet when he squares off against X Y Jet, one of the premier sprinters in the country, in the Sprint, one of four stakes to be decided on Saturday’s Sunshine Millions card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Ian Wilkes is not known for his success with first-time starters. But he certainly had Originator fit and ready to go off the bench when making her debut in Sunday’s finale.

Originator, a 3-year-old daughter of Artie Schiller, exploded from off the pace once clear in the stretch under jockey Chris Landeros to register a three-length victory launching her career in a five-furlong maiden special weight dash on the turf. She received a 77 Beyer Speed Figure for her effort and paid $58.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Racing resumes Wednesday following the only dark day of the week with a 10-race card that features a trio of first-level allowance and optional-claiming races, all three to be decided for a purse of $51,000.

The most intriguing of the afternoon’s co-features is the ninth event, carded at seven furlongs for 3-year-olds and what looks like a battle between a pair of recent graduates, Impact Player and Septimius Severus.

One of the more highly regarded prospects for the 144th Kentucky Derby, Catholic Boy, was sent through his first breeze of the year last weekend as trainer Jonathan Thomas begins pointing the colt to his 3-year-old debut in the Feb. 10 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

Catholic Boy went an easy half-mile in 49.20 seconds Friday at Bridlewood Farm in Ocala, Fla., in his first serious move since the colt won the Grade 2 Remsen by 4 3/4 lengths Dec. 2 at Aqueduct.

Fields are taking shape for the three stakes that comprise the Skyway Festival Day program Saturday at Tampa. The $125,000 Pasco Stakes, which usually produces a starter for two for the Sam F. Davis Stakes (Feb. 10), is expected to have at least three stakes winners in its lineup of 3-year-olds – He Hate Me, Driven by History, and Awaken.

Leading jockey Antonio Gallardo won three races Sunday at Tampa Bay Downs, marking the sixth time in the last 11 racing days the 30-year-old Spaniard has racked up a three-bagger.

Gallardo, who dominated the Tampa jockey colony for three straight years before opting to ride elsewhere last winter, is back in a familiar spot atop the 2017-18 meet standings. Into Wednesday, he topped all riders in starts (154), wins (35), and mount earnings ($544,750).

NEW ORLEANS – There were two sides to Gun Runner’s six-furlong workout Sunday at Fair Grounds.

On one end, Gun Runner put in a strong six-furlong drill, breaking off a length behind his regular work-mate Gettysburg, passing him at the quarter-pole and going six furlongs in a fast 1:11. Gun Runner’s splits, on the watch of Fair Grounds clocker Mike Diliberto, were 12.60, 24.20, 36.20, 48.20, and 59.40. Jockey Florent Geroux urged Gun Runner past the wire and out around the clubhouse turn, and Gun Runner galloped out seven furlongs in a strong 1:23.80, then got a mile in 1:37.

Solomini, disqualified from victory last month in the CashCall Futurity at Los Alamitos, was scheduled to make his 3-year-old debut in the Grade 3, $150,000 Robert Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 3, but it looks like he’ll have to wait a couple of weeks for another spot after spiking a slight temperature Saturday.

“He was scheduled to work yesterday,” trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday morning, “but he got a little temperature yesterday. He’s going to miss about five or six days. Until then I was going to run him in the Lewis.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – West Coast, the likely second choice to Gun Runner in the upcoming Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 27, had his last major drill for that race Sunday morning at Santa Anita, where he went six furlongs from the gate in 1:12 under jockey Drayden Van Dyke.

West Coast is scheduled for one more – easier – work at Santa Anita before departing for Florida on Jan. 24, three days before the Pegasus, but this was his last serious work. He went in company, and Van Dyke slapped him twice right-handed crossing the wire to encourage him to go out farther.