Rapid Redux won his first race of 2011 at Laurel Park on Jan. 12 and won his 19th race of 2011 there Tuesday, capturing the sixth race by a half-length to push his remarkable winning streak to 21.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Although he was off the board in his last two starts, Speightscity figures to be favored against five other 2-year-olds in Thursday’s $53,000 allowance/optional claiming feature at a mile and 70 yards.

In New York’s first juvenile dirt route race of the season at Saratoga, Speightscity switched from turf to dirt while making his second career start and galloped to an impressive maiden triumph, widening through the stretch to win by better than 11 lengths despite racing a bit greenly.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Cozzetti has been shipped from Kentucky to California for his stakes debut in Saturday’s $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park, a trip that trainer Dale Romans expects to show why the colt belongs on a short list of Triple Crown candidates for 2012.

“I think he’s a special horse and I want to give him a shot in a big race,” Romans said on Tuesday. “He’s one of those horses that with a couple of races under his belt, he’s moved forward. I think he’s peaking right now.”

Jockey Channing Hill will be wintering outside of New York for the first time since 2005 this season when he moves to Arkansas for the Oaklawn Park meet that opens Jan. 13. Hill, who will be riding at the Hot Springs, Ark., track for the first time, said he plans to travel to Oaklawn following a riding commitment in Pennsylvania on Dec. 20.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Two weeks after he could have resumed riding, jockey Tyler Baze remains suspended because he has not completed the terms of a ruling issued by Los Alamitos stewards in October for failing to take a Breathalyzer test during the summer.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Never Retreat’s racing career is not over yet.

Never Retreat was scheduled to be retired following her 2011 finale in Hollywood Park’s Grade 1 Matriarch. But after finishing a disappointing third as the 4-5 favorite three weeks ago at Hollywood Park, trainer Chris Block decided to give his Grade 1 winner one last chance to show her stuff before heading off to the breeding shed this spring.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Wesley Ward is confident that Ullapool is stakes material. But first, the lightly raced juvenile filly must earn herself the right to step up to the next level with a victory in Thursday’s $53,500 co-feature at Gulfstream Park, a 6 1/2-furlong optional claiming dash that drew a field of eight 2-year-old fillies. The race shares top billing on the card along with a second entry-level allowance race for 2-year-olds scheduled to be run at 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf course.

Saturday had the earmarks of a memorable day for trainer Billy Morey.

He won the first race at Golden Gate Fields with odds-on favorite Lord’s Minister in a one-mile maiden turf race. He won the second race, a $4,000 claimer at five furlongs, with favored Compromising Txt.

Then he saddled favorite Lucky Culprit in the $100,000 Gold Rush Stakes.

Turf Paradise canceled its live card for Tuesday because of poor track conditions after heavy rain soaked the Phoenix area Monday and early Tuesday.

Live racing is slated to return Friday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – It was hardly the Christmas season that jockey Martin Garcia envisioned.

A year ago, as the Hollywood Park fall meeting ended and the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting approached, Garcia was about 2,000 miles to the southeast, in his hometown of Veracruz, Mexico, stuck in immigration limbo and visiting relatives.

“I kept thinking, I’ll be back,” he said. “I didn’t want to stress myself. They told me it would be no problem, but that I had to wait.”