OLDSMAR, Fla. – It was more then 32 years ago that a young woman sent out a horse named Kil’s Wulcki Spot at Detroit Race Course to win her first race as a trainer.

Having tried unsuccessfully to gain admission to veterinary school, Kathleen O’Connell gravitated to the backstretch, where she began walking hots and rubbing horses before striking out on her own. Last Friday, she posted her 1,500th career training win when she sent out This One’s For Mel to capture a mile turf race at Tampa Bay Downs.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The new racing week at Santa Anita will begin on Thursday with a pick six carryover of $88,542. The carryover was confirmed after Boller Bomb ($32) and Warren’s Goldie ($13.40) won the sixth and seventh races on Sunday.

Thursday’s pick six covers the third through eighth race on a program that begins at 1 p.m. Pacific. The Thursday program is the first day of a four-race racing week that includes Saturday’s Santa Anita Derby program.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - It took 94 seconds to run Sunday’s $55,000 Secret Grace Stakes at Gulfstream Park. It took an additional 12 minutes to declare a winner.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Liaison, who was sixth in the Kentucky Derby last year, won his first start since August in Sunday’s $71,500 Santana Mile at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Martin Garcia, Liaison ($9) closed from third in a field of five and held off a sustained threat from 6-5 favorite Midnight Transfer to win by a half-length. Liaison ran a mile on the main track in 1:36.36.

“He showed some fight,” trainer Bob Baffert said. “This is a good start. I think he’ll be a good handicap horse.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - Power Broker, unraced since a fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in November, worked a half-mile in 47.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Sunday, his final major workout before a start in Saturday’s $750,000 Santa Anita Derby.

“I liked what I saw,” trainer Bob Baffert said. “He didn’t get tired.”

Owned by Gary and Mary West, Power Broker has 1 win in 5 starts and earnings of $242,600. A colt by Pulpit, Power Broker’s lone victory came in the Grade 1 FrontRunner Stakes over 1 1/16 miles here last September.

Trainer John Shirreffs won Saturday’s Echo Eddie Stakes for California-bred 3-year-olds over 6 1/2 furlongs with Omega Star, who will remain in California and start in the $300,000 Snow Chief Stakes for California-breds over 1 1/8 miles on April 27.

“That’s the one we’ll aim for,” Shirreffs said. “So far he’s won going short, but he looks like a horse that can go a distance.”

ARCADIA, Calif.- Trainer John Shirreffs will have a stable in New York this spring, and plans to have divisions of his nationally prominent stable on two coasts in the future, he said on Sunday.

Shirreffs said he is in the process of contacting his clients to determine which horses will be sent to New York, and which will race in California. He said it was unclear how many horses would be based at Belmont Park in New York, but that approximately 25 to 30 would remain in California.

“I’ve got to talk to my owners and see what they’re comfortable with,” he said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -   Trainer Shug McGaughey was still basking in the glow of his first Florida Derby victory the morning after Orb rallied to a convincing two-length victory over Itsmyluckyday under jockey John Velazquez in the Grade 1 stakes  that highlighted an outstanding day of racing Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

Amira’s Prince remained unbeaten in North America when he held off Willcox Inn for his fourth straight victory Saturday in the  Grade 2, $400,000 Mervin Muniz Memorial Handicap at Fair Grounds.

With Junior Alvarado riding for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, Amira’s Prince returned $4.60 as the favorite in a field of 10 older turf horses. The Irish-bred Amira’s Prince finished the 1 1/8-mile distance in 1:49.76 over a firm course.

ARCADIA, Calif.- The biggest fan of Doinghardtimeagain may be the guy who sat on her back in Saturday’s $200,750 Evening Jewel Stakes at Santa Anita.

Ridden for the first time by leading rider Rafael Bejarano, Doinghardtimeagain won the Evening Jewel Stakes for California-bred 3-year-old fillies by a convincing 3 1/2 lengths for her second stakes win. The patient style of her win left Bejarano elated.

“I love this kind of horse that can close,” Bejarano said. “I tried to find position and go from there. At the three-eighths pole, I had a lot of horse.”