Vicar’s in Trouble came out of his romping victory Saturday in the Grade 3, $200,000 Lecomte Stakes in good condition, and if all continues to go well, he will make his next start Feb. 22 in the Risen Star Stakes at Fair Grounds, trainer Mike Maker said Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shakin It Up has emerged as the dominant 4-year-old male in California this winter, with wins in the $301,500 Malibu Stakes over seven furlongs Dec. 26 and the $200,750 Strub Stakes on Saturday.

But comparisons to winners of those races from past years are impossible.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shared Belief, the Eclipse Award winner as the champion 2-year-old colt of 2013, continues to recover from a grabbed quarter sustained earlier this month and will have a workout at Santa Anita on Wednesday or Thursday , trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Sunday.

Hollendorfer considered giving Shared Belief a workout Sunday but postponed the exercise.

“I want to make 100 percent sure that we can breeze him and there won’t be an issue related to that foot,” Hollendorfer said. “We’ll try to do something on Wednesday or Thursday.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – General a Rod and Conquest Titan worked Saturday in preparation for the Grade 2, $400,000 Holy Bull Stakes next Saturday.

General a Rod, who is at Gulfstream Park, worked five furlongs in 59.40 seconds, with an opening three-eighths in 35.60 and a final quarter in 23.80. He galloped out six furlongs in 1:12.80.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Buff Bradley was hoping things would go as well for him and his star Groupie Doll at Saturday evening’s Eclipse Awards dinner as they had earlier that day.

Groupie Doll, the 2012 champion female sprinter and two-time Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint winner, worked a very impressive five furlongs in 59.86 seconds Saturday morning at Gulfstream Park, shortly after which Bradley confirmed that she’ll make her final start before being retired to the breeding shed in the Grade 3 Hurricane Bertie here Feb. 9.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn leading trainer Cody Autrey has been a force in the overnight ranks for years. But this season he has more promising young horses than ever before, and on Monday will start Tanzanite Cat in the $150,000 Smarty Jones. The horse is one of two prospects Autrey currently has for the 3-year-old series at Oaklawn. The other is Paganol, an impressive debut winner now targeting the Grade 3, $300,000 Southwest on Feb. 17.

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ARCADIA, Calif. – There were no smiles from Ben Cecil when Electric Eddie finished first in a maiden race for 3-year-old California-breds at Santa Anita on Jan. 2. A bumping incident in early stretch with runner-up Oh Billy Billy was foremost on the trainer’s mind.

“I knew he was coming down,” Cecil recalled.

Cecil’s intuition was correct. Electric Eddie, a 1-5 shot in a field of five, was demoted to second after an inquiry.

Although he is 0 for 7, Electric Eddie was second in two stakes around two turns in November.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Noble Moon, the leading 3-year-old contender based in New York, has been taken out of training due to an issue with his right front foot and will not make the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct on Feb. 1, trainer Leah Gyarmati said Saturday.

Gyarmati said that depending on how much time Noble Moon misses, he could perhaps make the Grade 3, $500,000 Gotham Stakes here March 1.

Noble Moon won the Grade 2 Jerome by two lengths here Jan. 4, his second win from three career starts. Gyarmati said the horse came out of the race with an injured foot.

Fire Starter, who rolled to a 10 3/4-length maiden special weight win last month at Laurel, will make his stakes debut Monday in the $150,000 Smarty Jones at Oaklawn. He is one of 10 horses in the one-mile race drawn Friday. Coastline, the probable favorite, will break from post 10.

Fire Starter drew post 3, one start following his dominant win Dec. 31. The victory, which came for trainer Tony Dutrow, validated the faith Steve Hobby, the horse’s regular trainer, has in the Tapit colt who had a rocky race one start prior, when pulled up at Churchill.

As a child in Florida, Jose Santos Jr., the son of Hall of Fame jockey Jose Santos, thought one day he might return to Louisville, where his father scored the biggest victory of his career in the 2003 Kentucky Derby aboard Funny Cide.

His dream was to emulate his father and become a jockey. But along the way, a little thing, or rather a big thing – his height – got in the way.