The pilot program of the HBO horse racing series “Luck,” which has been filmed to a large extent at Santa Anita in the last year, will be presented on the cable network Sunday.

“Luck” will be presented in an eight-part series that will launch on HBO, beginning in late January. The series was created by writer-producer David Milch, the horse owner whose credits include the popular HBO series “Deadwood” as well as network series “Hill Street Blues” and “NYPD Blue.”

Santa Anita officials are hoping the series will prove popular and increase interest in the sport.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Back after a three-day suspension and a trip to Japan, jockey Ramon Dominguez picked up where he left off, riding Day of Destiny – his first mount of the inner-track season – to victory in Wednesday’s second race at Aqueduct.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Weemissfrankie will face the smallest field of her career when she starts as a heavy favorite in Saturday’s $250,000 Hollywood Starlet Stakes, the last Grade 1 race of the year for 2-year-old fillies.

The Starlet drew a field of six, including the stakes winners Charm the Maker, who won the Sharp Cat Stakes on Nov. 13; and Killer Graces, who won two sprint stakes earlier this year. The field also includes Self Preservation, who has finished behind Weemissfrankie in three Grade 1 stakes this year; the maiden race winner Lady Pecan; and the maiden Mi Vida.

No trainer has started the 2011-2012 Fair Grounds meet hotter than New Orleans native Al Stall, whose blistering early-season pace already had produced eight winners from 19 runners going into Wednesday’s action. And if things go right for Stall, his fast pace should hold up through Saturday, when his stable is in all kinds of action during the Louisiana Champions Day program.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The handicap division figures to be wide open in 2012, and trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. is hoping to be a major player in that category with a trio of older horses he’s got in training at Gulfstream Park this winter that includes Boys At Tosconova, Trickmeister, and Redeemed, all of whom are nominated to the $60,000 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes on Dec. 17.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla – Trainer Todd Pletcher has won eight straight Gulfstream Park training titles. If anyone is going to stop him from winning a ninth it might be Chad Brown, who will have nearly 90 horses stabled at the Palm Meadows training center this winter.

Brown’s deep arsenal includes the Grade 3 stakes-placed Desert Sage, who figures to stand some beating dropping back against allowance competition for Friday’s $60,000 main event at Gulfstream Park. The headliner is scheduled to be run at 1 1/16 miles over the outer turf course.

Winchell Thoroughbreds and trainer Steve Asmussen won the richest 2-year-old race in the Mid-South region of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas last month, when Sabercat overhauled the competition in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A fifth-place finish by Champions Gate in the California Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Oct. 29 has changed the gelding’s direction this winter. No more dirt races at Santa Anita.

Instead, trainer Mike Machowsky wants to keep Champions Gate on synthetic tracks or turf courses. The first opportunity is Friday’s sixth race at Hollywood Park, when Champions Gate starts in an optional claimer over six furlongs on turf for 2-year-olds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After running into the graded stakes winner Mucho Macho Man in his last start, Gallant Fields should find the company more to his liking Friday when he attempts to clear the second-level allowance condition at Aqueduct.

Gallant Fields takes on eight rivals in this mile and 70-yard race that also carries an optional claiming tag of $50,000 for which two horses are eligible. Two starts back, Gallant Fields splashed his way to an 8 1/4-length victory in a first-level allowance race run in the slop on closing day at Saratoga.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Buoyed by continued growth from simulcast sites south of the border, the Woodbine Thoroughbred meeting showed a 7.5 percent increase in all-sources handle for the 2011 meeting that ended Sunday.

It marked the third consecutive year of significant gains in handle on its live Thoroughbred product as Woodbine had reported an 8.9 percent increase last year and a 7 percent increase in 2009.

A total of $423,210,680 was wagered on the 165-day meeting, up from $393,506,550 for last year’s 167-day meeting.