ARCADIA, Calif. – Goldencents worked six furlongs in 1:13.40 at Santa Anita on Wednesday, and trainer Doug O’Neill was not the only interested party in how the highly promising colt handled the exercise.

Jockey Kevin Krigger watched exercise rider Jonny Garcia work Goldencents and then headed back to O’Neill’s barn to check on his leading 3-year-old. Krigger then took a hands-on approach.

“You know it’s a big deal when your jockey hot walks him for 10 minutes,” O’Neill said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – If Friday’s card at Aqueduct looks familiar, well, it should. Seven of the 10 races have been brought back from last week when a winter storm forced the track to cancel live racing Feb. 8 and 9.

Three of the races have been brought back from the Feb. 8 card, including the $69,000 second-level allowance/optional claiming feature going a mile over the inner track.

The race was re-drawn and attracted five of the six horses originally entered, including probable favorite Centrique, a winner of five of her last six starts.

OPELOUSAS, La. – A total of 23 events worth $1.7 million will make up the 2013 Evangeline Downs stakes schedule. The 84-day meeting begins April 17 and will run through Sept. 7. This will be the first racing season for Evangeline under the ownership of Boyd Gaming, which purchased the track and casino late last year. Boyd also owns Delta Downs, which is located approximately 100 miles to the west in Vinton, La.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Spring Bloom makes her first start at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Santa Anita on Friday, a stamina test that does concern trainer John Shirreffs.

Spring Bloom has two wins and a second in her last three starts since mid-November. A 4-year-old by After Market, Spring Bloom won her first start at 1 1/16 miles on turf against maidens at Betfair Hollywood Park in November and her first start at 1 1/8 miles on turf in an optional claimer for California-breds here Jan. 18.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Kelly Breen didn’t want to run Pants On Fire in a stakes to begin his 2013 campaign. But with no other options at the time, Pants On Fire ended up in the Grade 3 Hal’s Hope, where he finished a game third after stumbling at the break.

Breen finally found the allowance race he was looking for on Friday at Gulfstream Park, a conditioned event also open to $100,000 claimers going a mile. The $65,000 race lured a graded-stakes-quality field that also includes Alma d’Oro, Duke of Mischief, Eldaafer, and Winslow Homer.

There was no hemming and hawing from trainer Steve Margolis a couple days before the 4-year-old filly Good Deed was to make her first start after a long layoff in the Mardi Gras Stakes on Tuesday at Fair Grounds. For lack of an allowance-race comeback option, Margolis had worked Good Deed with an eye toward this stakes return. The filly had trained strongly. She was ready to win, Margolis thought. And he was right.

Demonic, winner of a seven-furlong maiden race in his debut Jan. 13, is unlikely to start in Sunday’s $150,000 San Vicente Stakes for 3-year-olds over seven furlongs, trainer John Sadler said Tuesday.

Sadler is leaning toward running Demonic in the $300,000 San Felipe Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on March 9. The Grade 2 San Felipe is a key prep for the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby over 1 1/8 miles on April 6.

“I’m leaning toward the two turns,” Sadler said.

Owned by Lee and Susan Searing, Demonic worked six furlongs in 1:13 at Santa Anita on Monday.

Eblouissante, a 4-year-old half-sister to 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta, may have her stakes debut postponed after being diagnosed with a bruised foot following a win in an optional claimer last month.

Trainer John Shirreffs said that Eblouissante recently resumed galloping after a brief break. He was unsure whether Eblouissante could start in the $300,000 Santa Margarita Invitational over 1 1/8 miles on March 16.

“I think we’ll have to wait and see how she works,” Shirreffs said.

“We’ll gallop her a week before we work her and get her back in her routine.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – After sweeping the two stakes at Santa Anita last weekend, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens can extend that streak of wins at the highest level this weekend at Santa Anita and at Fair Grounds later this month.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Authenticity is among the nominees for Sunday’s Grade 3 Sabin, but trainer Todd Pletcher has opted to take the more conservative route with his lightly raced mare, entering her instead for Thursday’s $54,500 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park rather than take on two-time Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta and the multiple Grade 2 winner Grace Hall in the Sabin.