NEW ORLEANS – Guest Suite did not appear to maximally extend himself winning the Grade 3, $200,000 Lecomte Stakes on Saturday at Fair Grounds, and his trainer, Neil Howard, saw nothing to contradict that impression Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Guest Suite had cleaned his feed tub and was acting like his typically energetic self on Sunday. Nearly all horses that race don’t train the following day, and Guest Suite was no exception Sunday, but Howard doesn’t plan to give Guest Suite many more days off.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -  Eragon, the Argentinian-bred multiple Group 1 winner who will represent James McIngvale in the Pegasus World Cup next Saturday, turned in his final major prep for the race by going five furlongs in 1:02.34 with Edgar Prado aboard Sunday at Gulfstream Park.

Trainer Chad Brown has circled the first Saturday in March as the likely time to get Practical Joke under way for his pre-Derby campaign.

Brown Sunday morning said the Grade 2, $400,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park, or the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct -- both on March 4, both at 1 1/16 miles -- are the races under consideration for Practical Joke’s first start since he finished third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile.

“Those are the two we’ve zeroed in on,” Brown said.

The undefeated McCraken, who along with Classic Empire is one of the top Kentucky Derby prospects based in South Florida this winter, is scheduled to make his first start at age 3 in the Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 11, trainer Ian Wilkes said Sunday morning.

Wilkes said he wants to start off at Tampa because he doesn’t want to “take him out of his game” by running McCraken at Gulfstream over a surface that might not be as conducive to his style.

Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Classic Empire, named the champion 2-year-old male Saturday night at the Eclipse Awards dinner, is set to make his first start as a 3-year-old in the Grade 2, $350,000 Holy Bull Stakes at Gulfstream on Feb. 4 according to his trainer, Mark Casse.

Classic Empire worked five furlongs from the gate in 1:00.75 Saturday morning, his third work at Palm Meadows this month. He is scheduled to work again next weekend.

“As long as everything’s good he’s a go,” Casse said.

Shaman Ghost didn’t get a chance to run against Arrogate and California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic after running a slight temperature just before the race, but he’s set to meet them Saturday in the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream after working a half-mile in 47.60 seconds at Palm Meadows on Sunday.

“He went nice, especially for going by himself,” said his trainer, Jimmy Jerkens. “Usually you have to ride him a lot.”

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – Fresh off a second straight Eclipse Award as champion female turf horse Saturday night, Tepin on Sunday morning was preparing for her 2017 campaign with a half-mile grass workout at Palm Meadows in 47.80 seconds that left trainer Mark Casse believing the Grade 3, $150,000 Endeavour Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs on Feb. 11 is within reach for her first start of the year.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Finest City, the champion female sprinter of 2016 and the winner of Saturday’s $200,000 Santa Monica Stakes at Santa Anita, may appear in one of several stakes for fillies and mares in the next few months.

Trainer Ian Kruljac said Sunday that he is considering two-turn races on dirt and turf for Finest City, who won the Santa Monica Stakes at seven furlongs in her first start since a victory in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint here last November.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita canceled its eight-race Sunday program in anticipation of a day of heavy rain and wind, track senior vice-president Joe Morris said.

The decision was made shortly before 8 a.m., more than four hours before first post time of 12:30 p.m. This is the second time this month Santa Anita has lost a racing program to weather. The Jan. 12 card was canceled because of a torrential downpour early that morning.

Morris said weather forecasts indicated that rain would begin at midday Sunday and continue until evening.

ARCADIA, Calif.- For three consecutive weekends this month, Arrogate has worked prior to the first race at Santa Anita. With each workout, trainer Bob Baffert has expressed confidence Arrogate is on schedule for the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 28.

After Arrogate worked six furlongs in 1:12.13 at Santa Anita late Saturday morning, Baffert said the world-class 4-year-old colt is prepared for the world’s richest race. Recent wet weather in Southern California that has forced changes in Arrogate’s daily training schedule will not be an excuse.