NEW ORLEANS – J S Bach, the sharp Gulfstream Park maiden winner who would have been among the favorites in Saturday’s Risen Star Stakes here, had to be scratched because of a fever, and the focus now is getting him well enough to ship back to Gulfstream early next week.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Tom’s Tribute, the winner of the Grade 1 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar in 2014 and three other stakes in his career, has been retired because of an ankle injury, trainer Jim Cassidy said Friday.

Tom’s Tribute may stand at stud this spring, pending discussions with farms, Cassidy said.

Owned by Marilyn Braly, Tom’s Tribute won 6 of 16 starts and earned $634,880. Cassidy said that Tom’s Tribute emerged from a fourth-place finish in the Grade 2 San Gabriel Stakes on Jan. 3 with an ankle injury.

Patrioticandproud, a stakes winner at Woodbine who was seventh in the Grade 2 San Marcos Stakes on Feb. 7, is a candidate for the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 7, trainer Mark Casse said.

Patrioticandproud, a 6-year-old gelding, was third in the Las Vegas Marathon on dirt here last October and later second in two turf stakes – the Grade 2 Hollywood Turf Cup at Del Mar on Nov. 27 and the Grade 2 San Gabriel Stakes here Jan. 3.

“He’s trained extremely well on the dirt,” Casse said. “We know the distance will not be an issue. We’re thinking about it.”

Three Southern California-based sprinters – Big Macher, Conquest Two Step, and Secret Circle – are candidates for the $2 million Golden Shaheen at six furlongs at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on March 28.

Conquest Two Step and Secret Circle were first and second in the Grade 2 Palos Verdes Stakes at six furlongs Jan. 31. Big Macher was fifth in that race.

On Friday, Big Macher worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds.

“We’re planning on going if he continues to do well,” trainer Richard Baltas said.

Third-place finishes in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf last October and the minor Eddie Logan Stakes on Dec. 27 have led Daddy D T to a first-level optional $80,000 claimer on turf in Sunday’s sixth race at Santa Anita.

If the race goes well, Daddy D T will be back in stakes in the coming months.

“I just want to get a nice, easy win,” trainer John Sadler said Friday. “We want to get a confidence builder.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Chad Brown’s arsenal of turf stars will increase by one with the arrival of Chilean champion Il Campione, who soon will join his barn after being purchased privately by a Lane’s End partnership.

Il Campione, a son of Scat Daddy, has won 8 of 10 starts, including four Group 1 races in his native Chile. His graded victories came on grass at distances ranging from 1 1/8 miles to 1 1/2 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita has made minor revisions to the stakes schedule for its spring-summer meeting, which runs from April 25 to June 28, raising the purses of four stakes, reducing the purses of four stakes, and moving the Grade 1 Vanity Stakes from mid-June to early May.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Todd Pletcher said that Daredevil, who won the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes last year, will make his 3-year-old debut next Saturday in the Grade 2, $200,000 Swale Stakes going seven furlongs.

Daredevil raced three times last year. After winning his debut against maidens and then capturing the Champagne, he was caught up in a hot pace duel while wide in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita and finished last of 11. That was his only start going two turns.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Khozan, the half-brother to champion Royal Delta, was so impressive in his debut win last month that he landed a spot in the top 20 on Derby Watch. He makes start No. 2 on Sunday at Gulfstream Park in a first-level allowance, a one-turn mile that goes as race 5.

Khozan, a son of Distorted Humor, earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 103 in the seven-furlong maiden win, in which he reported home 3 3/4 lengths best in a field of 14. He faces just five rivals Sunday and landed post 3.

Apprentice Nik Juarez, who has not ridden since being injured in a Sept. 28 spill at Monmouth Park, has begun exercising horses in Maryland and plans to begin his comeback April 2, opening day of the Pimlico meet.

“I’ve been getting on horses in the morning for Hugh McMahon,” Juarez said. “Right now, I’m just focusing on getting back into shape.”