ARCADIA, Calif. - Michael Wrona will begin a three-week span as track announcer at Santa Anita on Thursday, replacing Frank Mirahmadi ,who will take Wrona’s place at Golden Gate Fields.

Mirahmadi and Wrona are working as the main announcers at Santa Anita during the winter-spring meeting, which runs through April 10. They are two finalists to be the full-time replacement for Trevor Denman, who announced in December that he will no longer call races at Santa Anita.

Denman remains the track announcer at Del Mar in the summer and fall.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Flamboyant, Forever Darling, and San Onofre, the winners of graded stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday, are scheduled to run in stakes from late January to early March, their trainers said on Sunday.

Flamboyant ($94.20) scored the upset of the day with a neck win in the $201,500 San Gabriel Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf. The win will lead to a start in the $200,000 San Marcos Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf on Feb. 6, trainer Paddy Gallagher said.

“He shouldn’t have any problem with that,” Gallagher said of the distance.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Sea of Erin turned in one of the more impressive efforts of the week here, rating in midpack before drawing off to win a $20,600 maiden special weight race by three lengths on the turf here Saturday. Ridden by leading jockey Antonio Gallardo, he paid $5.80 as the favorite in a field of nine and stopped the clock for 1 1/16 miles in 1:38.79.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Mongolian Saturday isn’t coming to Tampa Bay Downs after all, after the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint winner missed a scheduled workout Sunday due to body soreness, according to Santiago Aragon, assistant to trainer Enebish Ganbat.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though La Verdad still is scheduled to be bred to Medaglia d’Oro in 2016, she is likely to race once or twice more before then.

On a busy Saturday morning at Belmont Park, La Verdad worked five furlongs in 1:00.86 over the training track, her first workout since she finished sixth against the boys in the Grade 3 Fall Highweight at Aqueduct on Nov. 26. Trainer Linda Rice said one race that could be on La Verdad’s agenda is the $300,000 Barbara Fritchie Handicap at Laurel Park on Feb. 13.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California Chrome stayed in the Santa Anita stable area during normal training hours Saturday morning.

When he finally went to the track at 11:45 a.m. for his final workout before the $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes on Jan. 9, California Chrome was ready. He worked six furlongs in 1:10.04, quicker than expected.

Trainer Art Sherman and his son and assistant, Alan, thought California Chrome would go in a time closer to 1:12. At the start of the workout, jockey Victor Espinoza said California Chrome was traveling so well that a quick workout was inevitable.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Chad Brown was the leading trainer on the New York Racing Association circuit in 2015 in both wins (131) and purse money ($12,766,542). Todd Pletcher, the leading trainer in North American earnings each year since 2010, was second in both categories in 2015 with 123 wins and $12,086,440 in purses.

It was the first time Brown led either category for a year on this circuit.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of Empire Dreams and Saratoga Snacks certainly won’t mind seeing fellow New York-bred Effinex head out of the country for a possible start in the Dubai World Cup.

The $100,000 Haynesfield on Feb. 13 would be the next logical step for either horse following their one-two finish Thursday in the $100,000 Alex M. Robb Stakes. Empire Dreams, who won the Robb by a head, is likely to get a break, according to Terry Finley, head of the West Point Thoroughbreds partnership that owns the gelding.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After initially saying that Financial Modeling could make his next start in New York, trainer Chad Brown altered course and transferred the 5-year-old son of Street Sense to south Florida, where he will target the Grade 1, $500,000 Donn Handicap at Gulfstream on Feb. 6.

Financial Modeling won the $100,000 Queens County Stakes by 4 1/4 lengths over Tommy Macho – also Donn-bound – at Aqueduct on Dec. 19. He earned a career-best 104 Beyer Speed Figure in his stakes debut.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There is a change of plans in the works for Effinex – and a drastic change at that.

Initially slated to spend the winter in New York with an expected return to the races in the Stymie Stakes on March 13 at Aqueduct, Effinex soon will depart for south Florida to begin preparations for a possible start in the $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan on March 26.

“I’m giving it serious consideration,” said Russell Cohen, racing manager for his family’s Tri-Bone Stable, which owns Effinex.