OLDSMAR, Fla. – Anime, who sports a win and two seconds from her last three outings on the local turf course, tops an overflow field in Saturday’s feature race at Tampa Bay Downs. The first-level allowance will be run at a mile on turf and sports almost as many betting angles as it does participants.

For the first six races of his career, Brimstone Island was strictly a claiming horse, running for a tag as low as $7,500 in January at Charles Town. Saturday night, Brimstone Island returns to the West Virginia bull ring, only this time he will be shooting for a $250,000 purse in a stakes.

Much improved since he was taken by owner-trainer William Campbell on Feb. 1, Brimstone Island will try to prove his recent placings in a pair of minor stakes in Maryland were no fluke in the seven-furlong Robert Hilton Memorial for 3-year-olds.

Racing director Paul Ryneveld was pleased with entries for the first weekend of racing at Hastings. The 71-day meet opens Saturday with eight races. Post time for the first race is 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

“I thought we might get a few more horses in some of the categories but the types of races that went and the quality of racing for the weekend is a good way to kick off the season,” said Ryneveld.

Bold Affair and Lady of Greatness, each coming off a victory that produced the fastest Beyer Speed Figure of her career, will challenge Red’s Round Table, a three-time stakes winner last season, in Saturday’s $75,000 Primonetta Stakes at Pimlico.

Golddigger’s Boy and Ann’s Smart Dancer, both three-time stakes winners in 2011, headline a stakes doubleheader for Pennsylvania-breds on Saturday at Parx Racing.

The 5-year-old Golddigger’s Boy is one of six horses who combined to win 10 stakes last season in the Lyman Handicap (race 8). Ann’s Smart Dancer launches her 4-year-old campaign against eight other fillies and mares in the Foxy J. G. (race 7). Both stakes will be contested at seven furlongs and carry a purse of $75,000.

PHOENIX – Saturday’s $35,000 Princess of Palms Handicap at Turf Paradise presents your classic handicapping quandary: Do you go with back-class or current form?

That’s the primary question posed in the six-furlong event for fillies and mares, which drew a field of six.

The back-class is represented by Southern California raider La Nez, the 124-pound highweight. Teryns Song is among three of her rivals in sharp form.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Mamma Kimbo will now be pointed for the Kentucky Oaks after she won her two-turn debut Wednesday in the Grade 2, $300,000 Fantasy at Oaklawn Park. She led the field from the outset, scoring by 1 1/4 lengths over Amie's Dini. It was another three-quarters of a length back in third to Jemima's Pearl.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Tom Proctor has returned to California after basing his stable in South Florida earlier this year.

Proctor, whose stable won four stakes in California in 2011, has a familiar name to California racegoers among the entries for Saturday’s $100,000 Las Cienegas Handicap for fillies and mares on the hillside turf course.

Besides the Blue Grass, three other graded stakes are on the 12-race Saturday card at Keeneland. The most important is the Grade 1, $300,000 Jenny Wiley, which drew two of the better horses in the filly-mare turf division in Aruna and Zagora.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Glinda the Good’s form is littered with top-class 3-year-old fillies, and it is those company lines that point her out as a leading contender in the $100,000 Instant Racing at Oaklawn Park on Friday.