ARCADIA, Calif. – Jeranimo could only finish fourth in the Grade 2 Citation Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park on Nov. 23, a loss that trainer Mike Pender has shrugged off in recent weeks.

“He came out of the race as good as ever,” Pender said.

The next goal is the $150,000 San Gabriel Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on turf on Sunday at Santa Anita. Owned by B.J. Wright, Jeranimo is making his third consecutive appearance in the Grade 2 San Gabriel, having won the race in December 2010 and finishing second in January 2012. The stakes was not run in 2011.

Live racing in Nebraska will have a different look this year. The season begins Tuesday with an unusual opener as Lincoln Race Course will run a single Nebraska-bred race down the stretch of the five-eighths-mile oval.

Nebraska tracks are scheduled to run a bare minimum of 49 Thoroughbred dates, down from approximately 90 in recent years, which will meet the requirements each facility needs in order to continue offering full-card simulcasting.

In his last five starts, all two-turn races at distances ranging from one mile to 1 1/8 miles, Tujoes owns three victories, including one in a stakes restricted to Pennsylvania-breds. So why would trainer Steve Klesaris ask the 6-year-old Tujoes to cut back to seven furlongs – a distance where he has been beaten an average of 9 3/4 lengths in his only two starts for Monday’s $53,000 feature at Parx Racing?

Tiz Miz Sue, who was just edged by champion Royal Delta in last year’s Delaware Handicap, is working steadily at Oaklawn Park and could make her 6-year-old debut in either February or March, according to her trainer, Steve Hobby. Her major objective at the Hot Springs, Ark., meet that opens Friday is the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap on April 12.

Fair Grounds Oaks candidate Dancinginthecircle began her 3-year-old season on a high note Friday night at Delta Downs, when she cruised to a nine-length win in the $100,000 By the Light Stakes. With the win Dancinginthecircle also flattered Pure Fun, the eventual Grade 1 winner she had finished second to in a Churchill Downs allowance on Nov. 24.

Mike Repole said he has always been a fan of Johannesburg Smile. Friday, he proved how big a fan when he put up $100,000 to claim the 6-year-old New York-bred out of the third race. Johannesburg Smile won the mile and 70-yard race by a half-length. The horse, previously trained by Dominic Galluscio, will be trained by Todd Pletcher.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita has launched a program that pays a 20 percent bonus to ontrack pick six winners who are part of the track’s Thoroughbreds frequent customer program.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Friday was a day of bureaucracy for Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens, 49, who rides for the first time in seven years on Sunday.

Friday morning, he was in the California Horse Racing Board offices to reapply for a jockey’s license. Later that day, he was booked for a required physical.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Regardless of how Notacatbutallama fared in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, trainer Todd Pletcher already has at least one runner pointed to next month’s Grade 3, $200,000 Withers Stakes at Aqueduct.

Revolutionary, an 8 1/2-length maiden winner here Dec. 28, will remain in New York for the winter and be pointed to the Withers on Feb. 2, Pletcher said.

Trainer Mark Casse said he is in the process of determining where his standout 3-year-old Uncaptured will make his first start of the year after having to scrap the initial plan of running the colt in the Feb. 2 Sam F. Davis Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

Uncaptured, one of as many as four hopefuls for the May 4 Kentucky Derby for Casse, won five stakes at 2, ending with the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs. An Ontario-bred owned by John Oxley, Uncaptured is currently stabled in Ocala, Fla.