ARCADIA, Calif. - Jockey Garrett Gomez's comeback from heel and ankle injuries sustained in January lasted one race at Santa Anita on Friday.

Gomez rode Miss Pippa to a fifth-place finish in the third race, and dismounted with a noticeable limp. Later, he told track officials that he planned to rest for another week before attempting another comeback.

Gomez had been named to ride Tiz Point in the San Felipe Stakes on Saturday. He gave up his final mount on Friday, aboard Indecise in the sixth race. Jockey Martin Garcia rode Indecise to a fourth-place finish.

Turfway Park’s stakes coordinator, Tia Murphy, said Friday that interest is building among horsemen for the Spiral, for which entries will be taken the Thursday before the race (March 22). With 166 horses nominated, officials are hopeful of getting a big field, even if Hansen runs and scares off some prospects.

At this early juncture, those whose connections have expressed interest include Heavy Breathing and Holiday Promise, both trained by Todd Pletcher, and State of Play and Went the Day Well, both owned by Team Valor International and trained by Graham Motion.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The resurrection of Izzy Rules continues Sunday at Santa Anita.

Three months after she was risked for $20,000 in a claiming race, the revitalized speedster seeks her fourth straight victory, and first graded stakes, in the Grade 3 Las Flores Stakes for filly-mare sprinters.

A field of six entered the 6 1/2-furlong race, including Grade 1 winner Home Sweet Aspen and Grade 2 winner Great Hot. They are good, capable fillies, but they cannot beat what they cannot catch. This winter at Santa Anita, Izzy Rules has been uncatchable.

Trainer David Fawkes is putting a line through Apriority’s last try in the Sunshine Millions Sprint and hoping his Grade 3 winner will be back on track in Sunday’s fourth race, a $74,900 allowance dash that drew a stellar field of six, including Noble’s Promise and Soaring Stocks.

Apriority finished seventh, 10 lengths behind Soaring Stocks, in the Sunshine Millions Sprint. The performance came four weeks after Apriority grabbed a quarter leaving the gate en route to a very game nose victory in the Grade 3 Mr. Prospector.

Jockey Cody Jensen was sidelined at this time last year with a broken pelvis and an ambitious goal.

A doctor told the then 35-year-old rider to expect 12 months on the sidelines after he was injured in a riding accident at Los Alamitos in January 2011. In his own mind, Jensen halved that timeframe – and set out to meet the deadline.

“My surgeon did not think we’d make that goal,” Jensen said Thursday. “He kept saying a year, and I kept saying six months. I put it in my mind set that I wanted to achieve something that most people didn’t think I was able to.”

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – The undefeated Gemologist is closing in on his 3-year-old debut, which will come next Saturday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Rebel at Oaklawn Park. Trainer Todd Pletcher said the horse is scheduled to work Sunday at Palm Meadows training center in south Florida, then fly into Arkansas on Wednesday. Javier Castellano has the mount in the Rebel, which as of Friday was looking like it could have a maximum gate of 14.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Pat Byrne confirmed Friday that he would scratch Take Charge Indy from Saturday’s Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby to await the $1 million Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park on March 31.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Ultimate Eagle, 10th as the 2-1 favorite in the Santa Anita Handicap on March 3, is likely to make his next start in the $1 million Charles Town Classic in West Virginia on April 14.

Trainer Mike Pender said the Charles Town race has appeal because of the race distance of 1 1/8 miles.

“A mile and an eighth is right up his alley,” Pender said. “I think he’s a mile-and-a-quarter horse, but he couldn’t show it.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – While I Want Revenge is still searching for the form that made him a Grade 1 winner three years ago, Seniors Pride has been running in the best form of his career.

Sunday, I Want Revenge and Seniors Pride will meet in the $75,000 Bryan G Stakes, a one-mile race that serves as the featured event on Aqueduct’s nine-race card.

I Want Revenge has not won since taking the Grade 1 Wood Memorial in April 2009, a race that made him the Kentucky Derby favorite. An ankle injury knocked him out of the Derby and he has never quite been the same.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Dixie Strike, the winter book favorite for this year’s Queen’s Plate, and her stablemate Northern Passion will put their talents on display for the first time in south Florida when forming a potent one-two punch in Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Herecomesthebride. The nine-furlong turf fixture for 3-year-old fillies also lured Dayatthespa, winner of the Sweetest Chant Stakes in her 3-year-old debut here earlier this winter.