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.

Girvin impressed trainer Joe Sharp enough winning his career debut Dec. 16 at Fair Grounds that he plans to give the colt his second start in the Grade 3 Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 21.

Girvin, by Tale of Ekati out of Catch the Moon, by Malibu Moon, showed excellent early speed in his debut, and after a race-long battle edged another talented first-timer, Excitations, by a head. He ran six furlongs in 1:10.32, earning an 87 Beyer, the best figure for a 2-year-old during 2016 at Fair Grounds.

Paul McGee not only got his 1,000th career win on Thursday at Fair Grounds, he got it for a longtime client, Samantha Siegel’s Jay Em Ess Racing. And not only did the win come for Jay Em Ess, it came with a colt who might turn out to be a serious stakes horse, December Seven.

December Seven won a second-level allowance race by four lengths, this third win from five starts. December Seven lost his career debut sprinting, but had serious trouble while finishing third at Keeneland in October, and otherwise has been perfect in his two-turn races.

Two summers ago, Danzatrice hinted at very high-level ability, and she flashed the same talent winning the $50,000 Tiffany Lass Stakes last Monday at Fair Grounds. Danzatrice won the two-turn dirt race by more than seven lengths over Grade 1 winner Include Betty, and her strong mile and 70-yard time of 1:42.45 produced a career-best 93 Beyer Speed Figure.

The eye-catching performance has earned Danzatrice a shot at one of the better older females in the country, I’m a Chatterbox, in the Grade 3, $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic, trainer Steve Asmussen said Thursday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Julio Canani, who was suspended for 13 months through November for financial improprieties related to the sale of horses in the late 2000s, has taken steps to reopen a stable, according to California Horse Racing Board officials.

Canani was recently refused a trainer’s license by the racing board, a decision the trainer has yet to appeal.

The denial was based on the terms of Canani’s 2015 suspension, which stated he must participate in a fitness for license hearing before possibly being reinstated.