ARCADIA, Calif. – Sunday at Santa Anita, trainer Peter Miller starts two South American imports who could play roles in turf stakes this year.

Big Cazanova, a maiden who placed in several group stakes in Argentina and Peru, starts in an optional claimer over 1 1/8 miles on turf.

Later, Dr Action, a multiple stakes winner in Peru last year, makes his American debut in the $75,000 Thunder Road Stakes. Later this year, Miller said that Lideris, a Group 1 winner in Peru on March 15, and Kung Fu Mambo, a Group 1 winner in Peru in 2012, will join his Southern California stable.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Majestic Harbor won his first stakes in the Grade 3 Tokyo City Cup over 1 1/2 miles on March 29, a win that has led trainer Sean McCarthy to pick an even loftier goal for early summer.

McCarthy said on Friday that Majestic Harbor is a candidate for the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 28. The Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita over 1 1/4 miles on the main track was formerly known as the Hollywood Gold Cup. Hollywood Park closed permanently last December.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Echoing its glory days, Calumet Farm was all alone atop the owner standings at the 2014 Keeneland spring meet – at least for one race.

A 4-year-old filly named English Council rallied to a 10-1 upset in the first race of the 15-day meet Friday, giving the formerly all-powerful Calumet a short-lived lead and delighting 68-year-old trainer Jose Fernandez.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jockey Calvin Borel will have the mount on Rose to Gold in the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom next Friday, said her trainer, Sal Santoro. It will be the first time Borel has teamed with the near millionaire since she was eighth in last year’s Kentucky Oaks. Prior to that race, Borel guided Rose to Gold to victories in the Grade 3 Fantasy and Grade 3 Honeybee, both at Oaklawn.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – Dennis Decauwer has a tough act to follow – his own.

The local horseplayer – retired accountant, grandfather, family man – will be among more than 100 handicappers gunning for $75,000 in prizes next weekend, April 12-13, when Santa Anita hosts its second handicapping tournament of the season.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Silver Freak hasn’t raced since December and will be stepping up in class when he takes on eight rivals in Sunday’s $51,750 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park. But one would be hard pressed to look past the speedy Silver Freak, who figures to stand plenty of catching in the second-level optional $62,500 claimer at 1 1/16 miles on turf.

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The New York Racing Association was scheduled on Saturday to make its final payment of a $25 million loan to Genting, the company that operates Resorts World Casino, adjacent to Aqueduct.

The $25 million loan was made on Oct. 22, 2010 by Genting to NYRA as part of an agreement between those parties and the state of New York. The loan was made to help NYRA continue operations until it began to receive statutory payments from the casino. Resorts World opened on Oct. 28, 2011.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Stonestreet Stables and trainer Todd Pletcher are debating whether to start Dreaming of Julia or Teen Pauline in the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn on April 11. Pletcher said Wednesday that upcoming works would be a big part of the decision process. There is a chance Pletcher could pass the race with both fillies.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Trainer Todd Pletcher said Danza is possible for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby, and if the horse goes he would lift the projected field for the April 12 race at Oaklawn Park to eight. Pletcher already has Commissioner committed, joining expected starters Bayern, Conquest Titan, Ride On Curlin, Strong Mandate, Tapiture, and Thundergram.

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As an impressive winner of the Grade 1 Darley Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland last fall, My Conquestadory logically would have been a major candidate for the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes here Saturday.

But the 3-year-old filly pulled a muscle in her hip while training this winter in Florida, delaying her return to racing.