Santa Anita’s version of the modified Sunshine Millions will feature three stakes for California-breds, all on Jan. 28, and the card will be supported by the Grade 1 Santa Monica Stakes for older female sprinters, the track announced Wednesday.

The Sunshine Millions had pitted Florida-breds against California-breds, with, initially, eight races, four at Gulfstream Park and four at Santa Anita, all on the same day. The program was truncated to six races last year, and this year has been revamped, with a Florida-bred program at Gulfstream and a Cal-bred program at Santa Anita.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A pair of first-level allowance races share top billing on Friday’s Aqueduct program.

Two grandsons of Danzig who posted impressive victories first time out – Spring to the Sky and Artest – head a field of five 2-year-olds entered in a race 2, a six-furlong sprint on the main track.

California Cup Classic winner Norvsky will make his Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup at Hollywood Park, a race that could determine how he is campaigned this winter.

Majority owner Bud Johnston and trainer Don Warren debated whether to start in the Turf Cup over 1 1/2 miles on turf or the $250,000 Citation Handicap over 1 1/16 miles on turf Nov. 26. They have opted for Saturday’s race, which will be the longest of Norvsky’s career.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – It’s not often that Mr Gruff gets to the races, but it’s often worth it. At the ripe old age of 7, he has made just 10 starts, and has raced just once in the last 17 months. Yet his aptitude in turf sprints is not nearly as spotty, and that is why, despite the inactivity, he merits a tremendous amount of respect in Friday evening’s feature race at Hollywood Park, the $60,000 Night Mover at six furlongs on turf.

It was all aboard the graded-money express on Wednesday, when an overflow group of 14 2-year-olds were entered for Saturday’s Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot. The race will offer this year’s winner $590,000 in graded earnings, the kind of funds that could secure a young horse a spot in the starting gate for next year’s Kentucky Derby.

Prayer for Relief, who remained in California as an early scratch from the Nov. 5 Breeders' Cup Classic after developing a slight fever, will make it to Churchill Downs after all. The colt will run in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap, trainer Bob Baffert said Wednesday from California.

Prayer for Relief joins Belmont Stakes winner Ruler On Ice as the only 3-year-olds likely to race in what is shaping up as a terrific 137th running of the $500,000 Clark, a 1 1/8-mile race set for next Friday, Nov. 25.

A.U. Miner, the 6-year-old horse who sustained a badly fractured left-front sesamoid on the final turn of the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Marathon, continues to make progress at the Hagyard Davidson McGee Equine Medical Institute after undergoing surgery to repair the injury.

“I got a report on him this morning, and he’s doing okay,” trainer Clark Hanna said Wednesday. “He’s off all injectable medicines and is just on oral bute,” referring to phenylbutzaone, and anti-inflammatory analgesic. “The doctors say that’ll be the case for the next couple of weeks.”

Pleasantly Blessed and Skedee have combined to win 10 of 22 starts over the Remington Park turf course. They will meet on Friday in the $50,000 Holiday Spirit.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dan Peitz was entertaining thoughts of running Tajaaweed in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland when the horse’s owner, Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum, threw in a few words of caution.

“Sheikh Hamdan was at the sales at Keeneland in September, and when I brought up the Shadwell, he said, ‘He is not a Group 1 horse!’” recalled Peitz. “But the horse had been running so well and training so well, I went against his advice.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Sweetsouthern Doll didn’t make many headlines during her racing career, with the majority of her appearances coming in the claiming ranks for owners Anne and Jim Perron.

But, after finishing her career with a 4 1/2-length victory here last Sunday, Sweetsouthern Doll will have a chance to make a name for herself as a broodmare. She ends her career with a record of 9-4-6 and earnings of more than $250,000 from 37 career starts.