HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Shotgun Gulch, a Grade 1 winner of more than $500,000, moved closer to an intended start in the Grade 3, $150,000 Azeri at Oaklawn on Friday morning, when she breezed five furlongs in 1:01.

“We’ll put one more serious work in her before we go,” said C.R. Trout, who bred, owns, and trains Shotgun Gulch.

Horse owner Jerry Moss, who campaigned 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta with his wife Ann, served his last meeting as a commissioner of the California Horse Racing Board on Thursday.

Moss’s second four-year term on the racing board ended Jan. 1, 2012, but commissioners are allowed to serve an additional 60 days if the position has not been filled. No replacement for Moss has been named by California Gov. Jerry Brown.

At the end of Thursday’s meeting, Moss was praised by chairman Keith Brackpool for his sporting and regulatory contributions to racing.

At the halfway point of the current Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, ontrack attendance and all-sources handle have shown increases, track officials said Thursday.

Through Monday, the 36th day of the 72-day meeting, total ontrack attendance increased 6 percent over the corresponding figure from the 2010-11 meeting. While ontrack handle was flat, out-of-state handle was up 12 percent, and all-sources handle was up 7 percent.

Santa Anita had a disappointing season in 2010-11, with all-sources handle declining by 9 percent, track officials said last year.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Javier Castellano reached another career milestone when registering his 3,000th victory aboard Virtuously in Friday’s sixth race at Gulfstream Park.

Castellano, a 34-year-old native of Venezuela, is currently the leading rider at the meet with 71 victories. He rode four winners on Thursday’s card.

“It feels great,” Castellano said. “I’ve been very blessed to have all the support from all the owners and all the trainers and my agent, Matt Muzikar. People think it’s only me. I have a lot of help.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Setsuko’s career as a gelding got off to a stellar start with a comprehensive win in an optional claimer Feb. 4 at Santa Anita, just his second victory in 17 starts.

Three weeks later, he continues to thrive, working seven furlongs in 1:23.80 at Santa Anita on Friday.

“He worked awesome,” trainer Richard Mandella said.

Now comes the hard part, trying to win his elusive first stakes in the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap next Saturday.

Glinda the Good, who lined up against some top-class competition last year at 2, will launch her season Sunday in the $50,000 Island Fashion at Sunland Park in New Mexico. The one-mile race is for 3-year-old fillies, and it serves as a stepping-stone to the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks on March 25.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Musketier must be a happy horse. If he wasn’t, trainer Roger Attfield wouldn’t have brought the veteran back to run again at the age of 10 for a campaign that will begin in Sunday’s $150,000 Mac Diarmida at Gulfstream Park.

Musketier will make his 45th career start in the Grade 2 Mac Diarmida. His 44th was one of his best yet, resulting in a half-length victory over stablemate Simmard in Calder’s Grade 2 W.L. McKnight in his 2011 finale. Simmard will also be among the 10 long-winded turf specialists signed on for the 1 3/8-mile Mac Diarmida.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Caleb’s Posse, the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile winner based at Oaklawn Park, is scheduled to fly out Tuesday for a start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool at Aqueduct, said his trainer, Donnie Von Hemel. The race is Saturday, March 3.

Caleb’s Posse will fly out of Memphis, Tenn., into New York, said Von Hemel. It is about a three-hour van ride from Oaklawn to Memphis. The Tom Fool will be the first start since the Breeders’ Cup for Caleb’s Posse, who was a finalist for champion 3-year-old and champion sprinter of 2011.

NEW ORLEANS – Trainer Neil Pessin dashed out for lunch Friday to one of his favorite places around here, Charlie’s Sea Food in nearby Harahan. He recommends the seafood-stuffed eggplant and the corn and crab chowder, by the way.

Oceanik never had a steady schedule of races in a lucrative 2-year-old campaign last year.

Winless in seven starts at 2, he had a successful year, earning $137,390 for owner Harold Nichols, a sum boosted by a third-place finish in the Ed Burke Million Futurity last June.