HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Say A Novena and Awesome Belle made their last starts in the Breeders’ Cup, Quick Flip is an undefeated stakes winner, but Sacristy could prove the one to beat when launching her 3-year-old campaign Sunday in the highly competitive Old Hat Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

[bc_video_id:241012:]ARCADIA, Calif. – The female grass division in California often gets quiet in winter, and 2012 is no exception.

Grade 1 winners Star Billing, Harmonious, and Nereid do not return until spring for trainer John Shirreffs; top European imports Desert Poppy and Camelia Rose will not be rushed by Simon Callaghan, whose leading 2011 turf filly Dubawi Heights is retired.

[bc_video_id:241010:]OZONE PARK, N.Y.– Even before his home track Parx slapped him with a 10-year ban for an indecent assault charge, trainer Juan Carlos Guerrero was planning to try his luck in New York this winter. Guerrero shipped seven horses to Aqueduct earlier this month and on Sunday will send out his first starter, Bahama Bound, in the $75,000 Ladies Handicap at Aqueduct.

Opening day at Laurel Park’s 2012 winter meet got an unexpected boost when Rapid Redux’s name showed up in the entry box.

Rapid Redux surpassed Zenyatta’s streak of 19 straight wins during a 2011 campaign in which he extended his own streak to 21, the most in North America since Camarero collected 56 straight victories in Puerto Rico during the 1950s, will shoot for his 22nd consecutive victory in Wednesday’s sixth race, a one-mile starter allowance with a purse of $17,000.

Not that anyone really notices, but a new meet starts Sunday at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky. For bookkeeping and other legal reasons, the holiday meet ends when one year ends, and the winter-spring meet begins when the next year begins.

Otherwise, what happened in December figures to continue unabated for the next three months – and that is, Victor Lebron dominating the jockey standings and Mike Maker leading all trainers despite having what is basically his third string of horses based at Turfway.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Local horsemen have been clamoring for a chance to run their top 3-year-olds 1 1/16 miles at Gulfstream Park for the past seven years. That opportunity finally arrived this winter, with the first major test scheduled at the distance to come on Sunday, New Years’ Day, with the inaugural running of the $100,000 Gulfstream Park Derby.

Chuck Jenda, who trained the first Northern California-based Eclipse Award winner, has retired from training.

Jenda guided Brown Bess to the Eclipse Award as the nation’s top female grass horse in 1989 after she won the Grade 1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Santa Anita.

Jenda, 65, said he is moving from Castro Valley to Spokane, Wash., to be near family.

Jenda began training in 1976 and won 1,477 races from 8,410 starters. His horses won $24,661,645.

Golden Gate Fields will add a $50,000-added stakes to its winter/spring racing schedule, racing secretary David Jerkens said Thursday.

The six-furlong Albany Stakes for older runners will be contested on Jan. 28. Nominations for the race will close on Jan. 19.

Golden Gate Fields did not run an open sprint stakes for older horses in 2011 until the Oakland Stakes on Oct. 22.

Interim general manager Joe Morris said before the current meeting opened on Dec. 26 that the track hoped to add additional stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Thursday’s pick six at Santa Anita paid $3,832 on a day in which favorites won four of the races in the sequence.

Thursday’s pick six began with a carryover of $184,148 from Monday's opening day program. Bettors added $775,980 to the pool on Thursday.

Favorites won the first two legs – Backwoods Belle ($4.80) in the third race, and Beautiful Strike ($2.80) in the fourth – before Metropolitan Mile ($10.20) edged 5-2 favorite Ribat in the fifth.

Trainer Gary Contessa will find out about another of his 2-year-olds, Brooklyn Red, who stretches out to a mile and 70 yards in Saturday’s $75,000 Restrainor Stakes for New York-breds.

Brooklyn Red is 2 for 2, with both wins at six furlongs.

“He’s trained well for the race,” Contessa said. “He’s undefeated. We’ll find out if he wants to go two turns. So many sprinters can stretch out on the inner track. Now is the time to find out if he will go two turns.”