There’s no stakes action, but there’s a graded stakes winner, Solitary Ranger, set to start on the 11-race Saturday card at Fair Grounds.

Solitary Ranger, winner of the Grade 3 Arlington-Washington Futurity in September, is one of seven 2-year-olds entered in race 5, a first-level allowance also open to $50,000 claimers and carded for about 5 1/2 furlongs on grass. Other than running through fields and paddocks, Solitary Ranger has never been on turf, but his connections – trainer Wayne Catalano and owner Susan Moulton – long have considered Solitary Ranger for the surface.

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Calder’s 12th-hour decision late Monday afternoon to scrap the Grade 3 La Prevoyante, its traditional year-end offering for long-winded female turf specialists, put a bit of a crimp in what was shaping up as a great Saturday of racing around the south Florida area.

When it comes to the first round of Fair Grounds dirt-route stakes races for newly turned 3-year-old colts and fillies, trainer Larry Jones has been the man.

Jones won the Lecomte Stakes in 2012 with Mr. Bowling, in 2009 with Friesan Fire, and in 2007 with Hard Spun. He won the Tiffany Lass for fillies (now the Silverbulletday) with Just Jenda in 2009 and in 2012 with Kentucky Oaks winner Believe You Can.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Saturday's Grade 3 Mr. Prospector at Gulfstream lured a field of nine, led by 2011 winner Apriority and the speedy Star Harbour.

Apriority looked like his former self following a series of dull efforts when he rallied to a convincing five-length allowance win here last month. Star Harbour ran five statebred rivals off their feet capturing the seven-furlong Sunshine State in wire-to-wire fashion here three weeks earlier.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Grade 1 winner Tiz Flirtatious will stay in training in 2014, trainer Marty Jones said last weekend.

A 5-year-old mare, Tiz Flirtatious is likely to race in the spring at Santa Anita.

“We’ll run her next year,” Jones said. “She’ll get a couple of months off and it will take her a couple of months to get ready. You’ll see her in April or May.”