OZONE PARK, N.Y. – At first glance, it does not appear that Hansen is scaring off the competition for the Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct on March 3.

Though nominations weren’t scheduled to close until Saturday, the New York Racing Association’s stakes coordinator, Andrew Byrnes, has a list of nine horses that could take on the defending 2-year-old champion in the Gotham including Consortium, Chief Energy, Dan and Sheila, Done Talking, King and Crusader, My Adonis, Pretension, Raconteur, and Stealcase.

Sir Bond looked like one of the best 3-year-olds on the grounds with a breakthrough maiden route victory Thursday.

Second in his career debut at Churchill last fall, Sir Bond had finished a close second and a close third in two maiden route races at Fair Grounds, but in Thursday’s seventh race he took a serious step forward, rallying to a 7 1/4-length victory while facing 11 rivals. Sir Bond’s good 1 1/16-mile time of 1:45.12 produced a Beyer Speed Figure of 91, the highest such number for a 3-year-old route horse this winter in New Orleans.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Longview Drive completed his preparations for Monday’s Grade 3, $250,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Friday morning, when he breezed a half-mile in 48.20 seconds. He worked first after the renovation break, and after easing into the drill came home strongly, with Oaklawn clockers catching his final quarter in 22.80 seconds. The move was the second fastest of 57 at the distance Friday.

After winning the first race on Thursday’s card in New Orleans, Rosie Napravnik found herself in what has become a familiar position: Comfortably atop the Fair Grounds jockey standings.

Napravnik, spending her first winter in New Orleans, romped in the 2010-11 jockeys’ race, her 110 victories during the season 31 more than runner-up Shaun Bridgmohan. This meet, Napravnik took a lead in the standings during opening week and has never relinquished it: After winning the first race Friday, she had 69 winners, 14 more than James Graham and 15 more than Miguel Mena.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Amazombie, the champion sprinter of 2011, will have approximately five rivals, including two other stakes winners, in his first start of the year in the $200,000 San Carlos Stakes at Santa Anita next Saturday.

Their credentials are impeccable. Jess You and I was the champion aged horse and champion aged gelding in 2008. Noconi was the champion 3-year-old gelding of 2008 and champion aged gelding of 2010.

Between them, they give trainer Paul Jones a formidable team for Sunday’s $226,050 Los Alamitos Winter Championship for older Quarter Horses. At stake is an automatic berth to the Champion of Champions in December.

On Friday, a diplomatic Jones was not ready to make a prediction among his two champions.

“I think it’s a toss-up between them,” he said.

In contrast to Mucho Macho Man’s easy half-mile drill, his younger stablemate Silver Menace just blistered the same distance in 45.67 seconds after the renovation break Friday morning at Gulfstream Park, posting splits of 11.62 and 22.65 before galloping out five-eighths in 59.02.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Mucho Macho Man has been one of the most popular horses stabled at Gulfstream Park over the past two seasons and his legion of fans will get one more chance to watch him compete here this winter in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap on March 10.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Her Smile drew an outside post and paid the price in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, finishing third while beaten just more than a length by eventual Eclipse Award winner Musical Romance after being forced to race wide and losing considerable ground the entire trip.

Leg 2---Second Division

Turntable Bay

Owner: Charles Allen

Trainer: Chris Sutton

Jockey: EliskaKubinova

Was claimed out of the first leg and was a very disappointing sixth place finisher as the favorite.  Gets a new rider and saves five pounds with the apprentice on board, also goes for new barn.  Do take note that this runner ran one time at today’s mile and one eighth distance before, and that was a win.

Little Mordi

Owner: De Jesus Racing Stable