ARCADIA, Calif. – Distinctiv Passion won his stakes debut in the $75,460 San Pedro Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters by 1 1/2 lengths at Santa Anita on Monday.

The winning margin was deceptive.

Jockey Edwin Maldonado quit riding Distinctiv Passion in the final 60 yards or so, allowing runner-up Hear the Ghost to whittle the margin. Still, Distinctiv Passion ($3.60) was a comfortable winner in a hand ride, leading throughout and running six furlongs in a quick 1:08.50.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The major storyline for Super Bowl XLVII is the faceoff between opposing head coaches and brothers John and Jim Harbaugh.

At Aqueduct – at least for the last week – it seems like every day is Super Bowl Sunday.

Brothers Irad and Jose Ortiz have dominated the recent proceedings at Aqueduct, winning 30 of the 54 races run at the Big A during the six-day period Jan. 16-21. Irad won 17 races, Jose 13.

Three-time Eclipse Award-winning rider Ramon Dominguez, who suffered a slightly displaced skull fracture in a spill at Aqueduct last Friday, showed some improvement over the weekend, but remained in the intensive care unit of Jamaica Medical Center Hospital on Monday.

Updates on the rider’s condition have been limited. On Sunday, Dominguez’s agent, Steve Rushing, in a text to the New York Racing Association, said Dominguez is “slowly progressing each day. He’s talking a little bit more today.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Frac Daddy may have worked his way into the Grade 3, $400,000 Holy Bull Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park with an effortless work here Monday, in which he went five furlongs in 1:01.31, then was caught by Daily Racing Form going out six furlongs in 1:13.95 and seven furlongs in 1:27.46.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – It has been six weeks since the meeting started at Tampa, just long enough to see there’s a ding-dong battle shaping up for leading rider between Daniel Centeno and Angel Serpa.

Centeno, who has topped the local rider standings four times, has been clicking off winners at a steady rate since the beginning of the meet, and through Sunday, he had 31 victories.

Serpa, who was among the finalists for the Eclipse Award as leading apprentice in 2011, has 30 wins and had a big week last week, winning eight races in three days heading into Sunday’s card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -  In an appropriate but not totally unexpected turn of events, the odds-on Charming Kitten, a son of Kitten’s Joy, outgamed a tenacious but still somewhat green Bambazonki to register a one-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Kitten’s Joy Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A string of five consecutive losing favorites at Santa Anita on Sunday has led to a pick six carryover of $101,931 for Monday’s nine-race program.

The pick six carryover was confirmed after Sunday’s eighth race, with one leg of the bet remaining.

Monday’s pick six races include several large fields, and the 2013 debut of Beholder, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2012. Beholder will be a heavy favorite to win the seventh race, the $150,000 Santa Ynez Stakes for 3-year-old fillies over 6 1/2 furlongs.

ARCADIA, Calif .- More Chocolate was an eager filly in the first turn of Sunday’s $150,250 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita. Her aggressive behavior led jockey Garrett Gomez to change his race strategy, and resulted in More Chocolate winning her main track debut in the Grade 2 race for 4-year-old fillies.

Always near the front after the first quarter-mile, More Chocolate ($12.60) took the lead at the end of the backstretch and pulled away through the final furlong to win her first stakes.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark.- American Sugar closed with authority to win the third stakes race of her career in the $60,000 Dixie Belle for 3-year-old fillies Sunday at Oaklawn Park. She won by seven lengths over Little Miss Fitz, while it was another 2 1/4 lengths back in third to 4-5 favorite Lady Stonewall.

The Dixie Belle shared a card with the $60,000 American Beauty won by Cheery ($3.80).

Apparently, combining to win six races on one card wasn’t good enough for the Ortiz brothers.

So on Sunday, jockeys Jose and Irad did themselves one better.

 The Ortiz brothers combined to win seven races - the first seven - on Sunday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct. Jose won the first three and Irad won the next four - capped by a front-running victory in the $75,000 Turnofthecentury Stakes. Irad went 4 for 5 while Jose went 3 for 7.

On Saturday, Irad and Jose Ortiz won three races each with Jose being denied a fourth by a nose in the nightcap.