ARCADIA, Calif. - Taris is unlikely to start again until the $500,000 Santa Margarita Stakes on March 19 after winning her first stakes around two turns in Saturday’s Grade 2 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita.

Trainer Simon Callaghan said the $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Feb. 13 is a possibility but that the Grade 1 Santa Margarita at 1 1/8 miles has greater appeal because of its prize money and prestige.

“I think we’ll wait for the Grade 1,” Callaghan said. “It’s a long season and we want to pick our spots and concentrate on the Grade 1’s.”

NEW ORLEANS – Twice Tom Amoss passed by Mo Tom’s stall Saturday afternoon and found the colt lying down sleeping.

“I was starting to get worried,” Amoss said.

On Sunday at about 9 a.m., a visitor walked down to stall 17 in Amoss’s barn to feed Mo Tom a peppermint, and there he was again, lying down snoozing. But this time, Mo Tom had every right to catch some rest, having impressively won the Lecomte Stakes early Saturday evening.

Dortmund, unraced since winning the Grade 3 Native Diver Stakes at Del Mar in November, worked a half-mile in 47 seconds at Santa Anita on Saturday, the fastest of 47 recorded works at the distance.

The workout was the first for Dortmund since Jan. 3 and leaves open the possibility that the six-time stakes winner can make his 2016 debut in the $500,000 San Antonio Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on dirt at Santa Anita on Feb. 6.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Apprentice jockey David Lopez was fined $300 by track stewards on Friday for violating a whip rule in Thursday's fourth race.

Lopez was cited for his ride on Superside, who finished seventh of eight in a maiden claimer at a mile. The stewards wrote in a one-page ruling that Lopez used his whip when "clearly out of [the] race."

Superside was beaten 32 1/2 lengths by Motoring Around and finished 3 1/4 lengths behind sixth-place finisher Roaln With Bolen.

Lopez, 21, is fifth in the jockeys’ standings at the meeting with seven wins.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Warren’s Veneda, a winner of four stakes at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita, has been retired and will be bred to Clubhouse Ride this year, trainer Craig Lewis said on Friday.

The decision was reached by Lewis and owner and breeder Ben Warren after Warren’s Veneda emerged from a workout Jan. 10 with inflammation in a leg. Warren’s Veneda was a candidate for the $200,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – John Servis, who trained one of the most popular horses to ever race at Oaklawn Park in Smarty Jones, said he will be sending a string of horses to the Hot Springs, Ark., track this coming week. Servis also has divisions of his stable in Florida and Pennsylvania.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Mark Casse, who has a 25-horse division at Oaklawn Park, said Stephen Foster winner Noble Bird could turn up in Hot Springs. The biggest offering for handicap horses at the meet is the Grade 2, $750,000 Oaklawn on April 16.

“There is a chance Noble Bird is going to come out there,” said Casse. “There’s a chance of that.”

Some of the quality runners Casse has on the grounds now include the promising 3-year-olds Siding Spring and Conquest Windycity.

“We brought some 3-year-olds because it’s such a great program,” said Casse.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn Park will launch its 3-year-old series on Monday when 14 horses led by Toews On Ice run in the $150,000 Smarty Jones. Entries for the one-mile race were taken on Friday.

The Smarty Jones – which will end at the sixteenth pole – offers its first four finishers Kentucky Derby points on a preference system administered by Churchill Downs. The points will be awarded on a scale of 10-4-2-1.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Clothes Fall Off streaked to a track record for 5 1/2 furlongs over Aqueduct’s inner track Thursday and will likely make her next start in the Grade 2, $300,000 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel on Feb. 13, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.

Clothes Fall Off, a daughter of Daaher, won a second-level allowance race by 1 1/2 lengths Thursday, running 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:02.89. That eclipsed the previous mark of 1:03.50 set on Jan. 22, 2011, by Head Heart Hoof. Clothes Fall Off was assigned a 91 Beyer Speed Figure.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With the temperatures near 50 degrees Friday morning, there was an April feel to the air in the New York area.

That spring feeling carried over to the entry box, where Dads Caps and Green Gratto – the one-two finishers from last April’s Grade 1 Carter Handicap – topped a field of six entered for Monday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Toboggan Stakes at Aqueduct.