ARCADIA, Calif. – Ippodamia’s Girl will be on a race-a-month schedule for early 2018 after winning her stakes debut in Sunday’s $85,320 Blue Norther Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Santa Anita.

Trainer Mike Puype said Monday he wants to keep Ippodamia’s Girl on turf through the year, with an emphasis on the lucrative races for the 3-year-old filly division this summer.

Puype said the $75,000 Sweet Life Stakes on the hillside turf course Feb. 11 and the $75,000 China Doll Stakes at a mile March 10 will be considered in advance of the Grade 3 Providencia Stakes on April 7.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Abbondanza Racing partnership, a group of friends from the Del Mar area, has an annual draft of racehorses at the Kentucky sales each November.

There are no fantasies involved.

In November 2016, the group bought Goodyearforroses for $200,000. In her first start for Abbondanza, Goodyearforroses won the Grade 3 Robert Frankel Stakes a month later at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Mike Puype isn’t going to kid himself about what Ippodamia’s Girl is, and what she isn’t, and he’s perfectly willing to take what’s there.

“She works like crap on the dirt,” Puype said in the winner’s circle as dusk fell on Sunday at Santa Anita. “We’ll stay with what they give us.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Peter Eurton said that Giant Expectations, the upset winner of the San Antonio on opening day Dec. 26, would make his next start in the $16 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 27 after securing a spot in that field. He will use one of the three spots the Stronach Group, the owner of Gulfstream Park, purchased to fill out the 12=horse starting gate.

“When he gets his trip, he’s plenty good,” Eurton said Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Cool Bobby, one of the top Kentucky Derby prospects on the West Coast, is off the Derby trail after undergoing surgery for a chip in his left front ankle, trainer Peter Eurton said Sunday at Santa Anita.

Cool Bobby would have been one of the top contenders in the Grade 3, $100,000 Sham Stakes on Jan. 6. But two days after his most recent workout, at Santa Anita on Dec. 15, "he had a little heat," Eurton said.

"We took a picture – bingo," Eurton said.

Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Gun Runner put in a major work at his Fair Grounds base Sunday as he continues preparations for the $16 million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 27 at Gulfstream Park.

Also working at Fair Grounds for the Pegasus was Clark Handicap winner Seeking the Soul. The Grade 1 Pegasus is a 1 1/8-mile race.

Gun Runner drilled six furlongs in company in a bullet 1:10.60, with Fair Grounds clockers catching him galloping out seven-eighths in 1:24.40 and a mile in 1:39.20.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Peace won a maiden race against 2-year-olds Saturday, and trainer Richard Mandella is looking forward to running him in major stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita.

Peace won his third start, and first at 1 1/16 miles, in Saturday’s second race. Ridden by Mike Smith, Peace ($3.40) closed from fourth in the final three furlongs to finish three-quarters of a length in front of Regulate.

Peace left Mandella with the impression he is capable of greater improvement.

“I think he’s still learning,” Mandella said. “I’ve got hopes to dream bigger.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - Both of Silent Bird’s stakes wins have come sprinting. But trainer Mark Glatt said he would like to try Silent Bird at two turns later in 2018.

“I wouldn’t mind trying to run him at a flat mile,” Glatt said. “We haven’t been able to string enough races together to run two turns.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - After a hectic 2017 that included starts at seven tracks, Daddys Lil Darling earned a vacation after her win in Saturday’s Grade 1 American Oaks at Santa Anita.

Trainer Ken McPeek said Daddys Lil Darling will have a 45-day rest in south Florida before she resumes training for a 4-year-old season in 2018.

"We’ll point for the spring, maybe something at Keeneland,” he said.

Laurel Park canceled its final three races Saturday after two horses fell during the gallop-outs of their respective races.

Renaissance Rosie, the runner-up in race 5, the $75,000 Politely Stakes, fell after the finish, throwing jockey Julian Pimentel. Renaissance Rosie got to her feet after the incident, ran off and was caught. Pimentel, also walked away from the accident but was taken to the hospital for precautionary X-rays due to soreness in his chest area. All of the tests came back negative and he was released, according to his agent, Roniel Gerardo