HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trinniberg, the Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner and favorite to be named male sprint champion at Saturday’s Eclipse ceremonies, is scheduled to arrive at Gulfstream Park Wednesday to resume training for the 2013 season.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Todd Pletcher reported that Shanghai Bobby is sitting on ready for his first start of the year, scheduled to come in the Grade 3 Holy Bull a week from Saturday, after watching his unbeaten 3-year-old work five furlongs in 1:00.42 at Palm Meadows on Sunday. Shanghai Bobby, popular winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, is the overwhelming favorite to be named juvenile champion at the Eclipse Awards dinner, to be held here Saturday night.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Graham Motion is excited over the prospects of two promising Irish-bred turf fillies in his barn, Absolute Crackers and Tuttipaesi. Absolute Crackers overcame trouble to capture a two-other-than allowance race Sunday. Tuttipaesi won her U.S. debut in impressive fashion in the Ginger Brew Stakes here on New Year’s Day.

Smooth Bert, who won the Damon Runyon Stakes for New York-breds Dec. 9, will most likely make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Withers Stakes for 3-year-olds on Feb. 2, trainer Leah Gyarmati said Monday.

Smooth Bert is 2 for 5, with both wins coming in one-turn mile races. He had a temperature that forced him to miss the Grade 2, $200,000 Jerome on Jan. 5.

“It seems like a good time to find out if belongs with that kind,” Gyarmati said. “If not, we can go back to New York-breds.”

Lady Banks, winner of Saturday’s $75,000 Ruthless Stakes at six furlongs, will likely get the opportunity to stretch out in distance for her next start, trainer James Lawrence said Monday. One option is the $150,000 Caesars Wish Stakes at Laurel on March 2 at a mile.

Another 4-year-old New York-bred filly with a future is Mischief Maker, who cruised to a 7 1/4-length victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Swirlaway Stakes, a race that scratched down to three horses.

It was the second straight dominant win for Mischief Maker, a daughter of Capetown owned and bred by Patricia Lavelle’s Windhorse Thoroughbreds.

Though Mischief Maker is in career-best form, trainer Bruce Brown said he will stick to his original plan of giving her the remainder of the winter off, and point to a summer campaign.

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. – If trainer Graham Motion had his druthers, the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap would be run next weekend, not on Feb. 9 as scheduled. That’s how good his 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom is doing in preparation for his much-anticipated 2013 debut.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – From the connections that brought you the Grade 1-winning New York-bred Haynesfield comes Cluster of Stars, a 4-year-old filly who made quite the auspicious return to the races Sunday at Aqueduct.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Fragile but fast, Smoldering Beauty makes another return from a lengthy layoff when she tops a five-horse field entered Wednesday at Aqueduct in a $62,000 allowance sprint for fillies and mares who have never won two races.

This is one of two six-furlong allowance races on Wednesday’s nine-race program, which starts a six-day week of racing at the Big A culminating with Monday’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day card.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Wow!

Whether it was the addition of blinkers, the presence of a blistering pace battle in front of him, or just the case of a good fresh horse sitting on a big race, many who witnessed the 3-year-old debut of John Oxley’s Sky Mesa colt Dynamic Sky in Saturday’s $100,000 Pasco Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs came away with the feeling they may well have seen a horse with true Triple Crown potential.

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