ARCADIA, Calif. – One day after Midnight Storm’s win in the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita, the 6-year-old was being considered for two races. One thing is likely – Midnight Storm’s next race will be a Grade 1 on the main track.

Midnight Storm won the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf last June and was third in the Breeders’ Cup Mile here in November. His last two starts have come on dirt, and he won them both – the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Del Mar on Nov. 27 and the San Pasqual Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. – John Shirreffs not only trains Gormley, he’s a bit of a fan.

When Gormley walked off the track after a five-furlong workout in 1:00.60 at Santa Anita on Monday, Shirreffs took a moment to take a few photos.

“I got a new camera for Christmas,” Shirreffs said. “I love photography anyway.”

Gormley could be the subject of many photos in the coming months. Already a Grade 1 winner, having won the FrontRunner Stakes here on Oct. 1, Gormley will have his 3-year-old debut in Saturday’s $100,000 Sham Stakes at a mile.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A couple of 3-year-olds eyeing the Feb. 4 Holy Bull here, Gunnevera and Three Rules, worked within minutes of one another eight miles apart on Saturday. Gunnevera, the winner of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special and the Grade 3 Delta Jackpot, went five furlongs in 59.85 seconds at Gulfstream Park West, while Three Rules drilled a bullet half-mile in 46.95 at Gulfstream Park.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Mark Casse still has the Grade 2 Holy Bull here on Feb. 4 circled for Classic Empire’s 3-year-old debut, although he said he’s not going to rush the colt to make the race.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – The 2016 Florida Oaks was won by a British horse with an Italian name making her U.S. debut for an Australian trainer and a French rider. When Baciami Piccola rallied to win the Grade 3 race for trainer Brian Lynch and jockey Julien Leparoux, she reinforced the idea that talented runners invade Tampa Bay Downs from all over when there is big money on the line.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Peter Miller’s stable was in such excellent form in the final days of 2016 that he had four stakes winners in three races.

If that sounds odd, it’s because two of Miller’s runners – Solid Wager and St. Joe Bay finished in a dead heat for first in the $100,000 Midnight Lute Stakes for sprinters on Saturday. Friday, Miller swept the two stakes on the eight-race program, winning the $94,935 Kalookan Queen Stakes for female sprinters with Bad Ju Ju and the $80,580 Eddie Logan Stakes for 2-year-olds on turf with Vending Machine.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With hours to spare, Decked Out became a Grade 1 stakes winner as a 3-year-old in Saturday’s $302,415 American Oaks at Santa Anita. The objective took longer than expected.

The American Oaks, for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf, was Decked Out’s fourth consecutive start at the highest level. She was close in one of those races, second by a head in the Del Mar Oaks in August, and well-beaten in the other two starts in Grade 1 races – a ninth in the Belmont Oaks in July and 12^th in the Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Ten ticketholders hit the pick six for $101,623 at Santa Anita on Friday, but the single-ticket jackpot carryover pool soared to $212,103 for Saturday’s program.

The single-ticket provision was introduced at the start of the winter-spring meeting on Monday. Friday was the third day of the meet, and there has yet to be a pick six with only one winning ticket, which would trigger a payoff of the jackpot pool.

Even Thunder, who won the King’s Swan Stakes at Aqueduct on Dec. 2, will make his next start in the $100,000 Mucho Macho Man Stakes at Gulfstream Park next Saturday, trainer Joe Orseno said.

Orseno felt the one-turn mile configuration of the Mucho Macho Man was a better spot to stretch the horse out in distance than two turns over the inner track. Even Thunder has competed in only sprints in his first five starts. The King’s Swan was Even Thunder’s first and only start for Orseno and Leonard Green’s D J Stable, which purchased the horse privately in October.

It didn’t take long for Cornelio Velasquez to reacquaint himself with the Aqueduct winner’s circle.

Away from New York for the better part of seven months, Velasquez won two races Thursday, including the $100,000 Damon Runyon Stakes for New York-breds aboard Haul Anchor.