ARCADIA, Calif. – For five months, Vale Dori has essentially had the California older-female division to herself, reeling of five consecutive graded stakes wins.

She is about to get company in the division – world-class company.

Vale Dori won the Grade 3 Adoration Stakes at Santa Anita on Sunday, a prep for the Grade 1 Beholder Mile on June 3, the top race for females of the spring-summer meeting. The $400,000 Beholder Mile is shaping up as the nation’s top race for fillies and mares of the first half of the year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Arrogate has had a quiet start to May, a peaceful period that is nearing an end.

The champion 3-year-old male of 2016, Arrogate has been perfect in two starts this year, winning the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 28 and the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on March 25. He is the first horse to win consecutive eight-figure races.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The unbeaten filly Sircat Sally is likely to follow a pattern of graded stakes on turf for 3-year-old fillies in Southern California in coming months.

Saturday, Sircat Sally won her sixth race in the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes at a mile on turf. The victory is likely to lead to a start in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf on June 17. Another option is the $200,000 Melair Stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles on May 29.

ARCADIA, Calif. - To reach the winner’s circle of Saturday’s $81,725 Singletary Stakes at Santa Anita, Bowies Hero dragged his nose through the turf at the start and rallied past most of his nine rivals in the one-mile turf race.

The style of the win in Bowies Hero’s first start of the year has left trainer Phil D’Amato eager for the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 3, even if the $250,000 turf race is nearly four months off.

“The ultimate goal is the Del Mar Derby,” D’Amato said on Sunday. “I think 1 1/8 miles will fit him.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Always Dreaming, winner of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday at Churchill Downs, emerged from the race well and will be sent as soon as possible to Pimlico to prepare for the Preakness Stakes on May 20, trainer Todd Pletcher said Sunday morning.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - They had won more than 1,600 races together -- including a Belmont Stakes with a filly -- and for nearly two decades have been the dominant jockey-and-trainer combination in North American racing.

When it came to the Kentucky Derby, however, jockey John Velazquez and trainer Todd Pletcher had come up goose eggs, going winless in 11 prior years together dating to 2000, the first year Pletcher ran a horse in the race.

While both men had won the Kentucky Derby separately, they felt their careers wouldn’t be complete unless they could win one together.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Thunder Snow bucked wildly just after the start of the Kentucky Derby and did not finish the race, but all signs point to the colt being uninjured.

Thunder Snow was away slowly and almost immediately dropped to the tail of the field, and when jockey Christophe Soumillon threw the reins at him to try to urge his mount into the race, Thunder Snow bucked several times and quickly was pulled up.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For a guy still chasing the dream of winning his first Kentucky Derby, a dream deferred for at least another year, trainer Steve Asmussen seemed quite jubilant following Lookin At Lee’s second-place finish behind Always Dreaming in the Derby on Saturday.

“I’m so very proud of Lee,” said an enthused Asmussen, who had a giant smile on his face despite the Kentucky Derby remaining the only really significant item missing on his Hall of Fame résumé. “That’s just who he is. He just did what he always does, the way he performed out there today.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The single-ticket jackpot pool of the pick six was hit for $439,362 at Santa Anita on Thursday from a $5,300 ticket.

The single-ticket pool had not been hit since April 6, leading to a carryover of $349,792 into Thursday’s card. Bettors added $138,071 on Thursday.

The winning ticket was purchased through a Maryland-based hub, according to track officials.

The winners of the pick-six races were Demigoddess ($34), Madelyn’s Wild Max ($20.40), Exotic Ghost ($6), Call the Queen ($10.20), Zapperkat ($12.20), and Kona Dreams ($3.80).

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Norberto Arroyo has been suspended five racing days later this month for causing interference in a race at Santa Anita on April 30 and may drop appeals of seven other suspension days from March, according to his brother and agent, Nelson Arroyo.

Norberto Arroyo has been suspended May 14 and May 18-21 for causing interference aboard Buckys Pick in the ninth race on April 30, a one-mile maiden race on turf. Buckys Pick finished third and was disqualified and placed sixth.