Heart Butte, a much-improved colt since blinkers were added to his equipment four starts ago, outfought Thunder Lord in deep stretch to collect his fourth straight victory and second consecutive stakes in Saturday’s $75,000 Auld Lang Syne at Parx Racing.

Fed Biz, a $950,000 yearling purchase, won a one-mile maiden race for 2-year-olds on Friday at Santa Anita, a performance likely to lead to a stakes appearance in his next start.

Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Fed Biz stalked the quick pace of Where’s Henry, took the lead on the turn and won by 1 3/4 lengths in 1:35.48.

“He had every reason to stop and he rebroke,” winning trainer Bob Baffert said. “We’ve always thought a lot of this colt. He showed he’s a real deal. That was exciting.”

The claiming epidemic is so widespread at Aqueduct  this winter that two claims were put in Friday for the now 11-year-old Callmetony. Joe Imperio won a two-way shake over David Jacobson, nabbing him for $7,500 from owner Roddy Valente and trainer Bruce Levine.

Callmetony finished fourth in Friday’s first race, which was the 77th start of his career.

A race for $7,500 claimers carries a $29,000 purse with the winner earning $17,400.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Hansen turned in his first serious work Saturday since arriving in south Florida, going a half-mile in 48.60 seconds before galloping out five-eighths in 1:03.60 under the cloak of darkness shortly after the Gulfstream Park racetrack opened for training at 5:45 a.m.

Hansen, who capped off a perfect 2-year-old campaign with a gritty head victory over Union Rags in the Juvenile, had barely gotten out of a gallop when he breezed a half-mile in 54 the previous week.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Already a graded stakes winner on turf, Shkspeare Shaliyah will be given the opportunity to prove himself on dirt when he starts in Saturday’s $150,000 Count Fleet Stakes at Aqueduct.

The Count Fleet, run at a mile and 70 yards over the inner track, is the first stakes for 3-year-old males scheduled in New York in 2012.

At 2, Shkspeare Shaliyah won 2 of 4 starts on turf, including the Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes at Belmont. He then finished ninth, beaten 6 1/2 lengths by Wrote, in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf at Churchill Downs in November.

Baltimore Belle, a proven stakes winner in her native Maryland but never before asked to run on a main track out of state, faces Orbiston Parva, whose fondness for the surface at Parx Racing may outweigh her lack of stakes experience, in Tuesday’s $75,000 Sleigh Ride at Parx.

Based at Laurel Park with trainer Mike Trombetta, Baltimore Belle was a two-time stakes winner on dirt in 2001, taking the off-the-turf Dahlia going 1 1/16 miles at Pimlico in late April and the restricted Geisha going a one-turn mile at Laurel last time out on Dec. 10.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Bruce Brown is targeting next month’s Grade 3 Toboggan Stakes for his speedy New York-bred sprinter Dr Disco. While there are two overnight stakes on Jan. 8 for which Dr Disco would be eligible, Brown found what he hopes is a better spot in a $66,000 open-company third-level allowance race that serves as Monday’s feature at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Majestic City, the winner of two sprint stakes last summer, is being rested for 45 days and is off the Triple Crown trail.

Trained by Peter Miller, Majestic City has won 3 of 7 starts and $245,570 for owner Jeff Bloom. Majestic City was 13th in the CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park on Dec. 17, his most recent start. Miller said that Majestic City will be sent to a farm in Hemet, Calif., for a rest.

“He’s just pooped,” Miller said. “We’re going to let him be a horse for 45 days. We’ll bring him back for a late spring and summer campaign.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – With 13 wins in 23 starts, nearly $900,000 in earnings, and a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in 2010, Unzip Me has been effective just about anywhere, but she has been particularly deadly on Santa Anita’s hillside turf course, where she has won 6 times in 9 starts.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainers Mike Chambers and Darrell Vienna have been fined $750 after they failed to report horses they started at Hollywood Park in December as geldings at the proper time.

The fines come at a time when the California Horse Racing Board is considering stronger penalties for such infractions.