OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After seriously considering stretching out recent maiden winner Clawback in distance, trainer Rick Violette ultimately opted to keep the 3-year-old sprinting. Thus, Clawback will make his stakes debut in Monday’s six-furlong, $75,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct.

Clawback will take on only four rivals in the Winkfield, including the multiple stakes-winning West Virginia-bred In the Fairway and the stakes-winning New York-bred Meeker Avenue. Multiple winner Rubysandpearls and the Todd Pletcher-trained Winning Cause complete the field.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Beholder is approaching Monday’s $150,000 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in the same condition as she did her last race – a win in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies here last November.

“She couldn’t have been better going into the Breeders’ Cup,” trainer Richard Mandella said last week. “She’s coming back into that same form.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Kevin Krigger was released from a Pasadena hospital Friday evening after being involved in a frightening spill earlier that day in a turf race at Santa Anita.

Krigger was aboard Ricspretentiousgal when the filly clipped heels with Indecise near the eighth pole. Krigger was briefly unconscious, but had regained consciousness before being transported to Huntington Hospital in Pasadena.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – When it comes to his promising turf mare Kadaya, trainer Bob Hess Jr. believes the farther she goes, the better she will get. He will have an opportunity to test that theory Monday when the Irish-bred Kadaya stretches out to 1 3/8 miles to take on eight other fillies and mares in the $57,500 feature on a special 10-race holiday program at Gulfstream Park.

Golden Rod Stakes winner Seaneen Girl was scratched Saturday morning from the Silverbulletday Stakes at Fair Grounds, but her trainer, Bernie Flint, said nothing is wrong with the filly and that she would be rerouted to the Feb. 23 Rachel Alexandra Stakes.

“I was only going to run her two times at this meet; that was the plan all along,” Flint told Fair Grounds publicity staff.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Ramon Dominguez suffered a fractured skull after being involved in a spill during the running of Friday's seventh race at Aqueduct, according to his agent Steve Rushing. Dominguez remained hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition on Friday night.

It was unclear how long he would be hospitalized and when he would be able to ride again. Before the results of a CAT scan revealed the skull fracture, Dominguez had originally been diagnosed with a bruise over his right eye.

The high-class turf filly Dayatthespa, who was injured in the Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park 1 1/2 months ago, has returned to light training at Palm Meadows in south Florida for trainer Chad Brown, who said he hopes to have her back for the Keeneland meeting in April.

Dayatthespa propped when rounding the first turn of the Matriarch, and emerged from the race with a laceration on her left hip, and a wound to her right front tendon that required stitches.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Patrick Biancone is taking a realistic approach to starting Switch to the Lead against Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Beholder in Monday’s $150,000 Santa Ynez Stakes.

“She’s ready, but I don’t think we can beat the other filly,” Biancone said.

Owned by Kona Stable, Switch to the Lead was second to Unusual Way in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Sprint Preview over seven furlongs Nov. 3, her best result in a stakes. Last summer, Switch to the Lead was third in the Sorrento Stakes behind Eclipse Award finalist Executiveprivilege.

Data Link, winner of the Grade 1 Makers 46 Mile in 2012, worked a bullet three furlongs in 36.20 seconds at Payson Park in southe Florida on Friday. It was his second work since shipping to south Florida from the West Coast following his victory in the Grade 2 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park on Nov. 23.

Trainer Shug McGaughey said Data Link is doing very well since returning from California and will make his 2013 debut in the Grade 3 Canadian Turf at Gulfstream on Feb. 23.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Eblouissante, a half-sister to Zenyatta, is bound for a graded stakes in March after winning an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Thursday to remain unbeaten in two starts.

Friday, trainer John Shirreffs said that Eblouissante, 4, will be considered for the $300,000 Santa Margarita Stakes, a Grade 1 for fillies and mares over 1 1/8 miles here March 16. The race could lead to a start in the $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park on April 12.

“The Santa Margarita is the one that we’ll look at,” Shirreffs said.