Trainer Rick Dutrow Jr. warmed up for Amen Hallelujah’s much-anticipated return in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Sprint by sending out Stradavinsky to capture Sunday’s Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint. Stradivinsky, making his first start since finishing next to last in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, outfinished the slow-starting Great Attack by 1 1/4 lengths to register his second win in four starts since being claimed by Dutrow for $50,000 at Churchill Downs last May.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer David Fawkes won’t have very long to bask in the glow of accepting his first Eclipse Award after Big Drama was named champion sprinter in 2010 at last week’s ceremonies here in Miami. There is plenty of business to take care of on both coasts on Saturday, with Fawkes starting three horses in the Sunshine Millions, including Duke of Mischief in the main event, the $500,000 Classic, to be decided this year at Gulfstream Park.

 J P’s Gusto worked seven furlongs in 1:25.40 on Monday at Santa Anita, preparing for his expected 3-year-old debut in the $250,000 Robert Lewis Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on Feb. 12.

Trainer David Hofmans said that JP’s Gusto worked the final quarter-mile in 23.20 seconds. JP’s Gusto was ridden in the workout by Iggy Puglisi.

“He loves this track,” Hofmans said. “Iggy said he goes so effortlessly over it.”

The California-based jockey with arguably the best book of rides for Saturday’s Santa Anita Sunshine Millions races is Joe Talamo.

Talamo will ride Caracortado in the $300,000 Turf over 1 1/8 miles, All Due Respect in the Distaff and Cost of Freedom in the Sprint. All three will be short prices, or in the case of Cost of Freedom, favored, in the races for California-breds and Florida-breds.

Sunday, Talamo was aboard All Due Respect for her final prerace workout, a half-mile in 51.80 seconds.

Jockey Patrick Valenzuela, who took off his Santa Anita mounts on Sunday, complaining of body soreness from a spill on Saturday,  is expected to return to riding on Thursday, the next day of live racing in Southern California, where he is booked to ride two of the eight races on a program plagued by short fields.

In Saturday’s eighth race, Valenzuela was unseated when She’ll Heir clipped heels at the start of the Sweet Life Stakes on the hillside turf course. Valenzuela rose under his own power, but did not ride the last race.

ARCADIA, Calif – Euroears, the upset winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita, may be bound for Dubai in March.

Trainer Bob Baffert, whose stable is off to an electrifying start in 2011, said on Sunday that Euroears is a candidate for the $2 million Golden Shaheen for sprinters at Meydan Racecourse on March 26.

“He ran like he’s worked,” Baffert said. “I thought he’d run well if he ran to his back class. When he was 4, he looked like he’d be the best sprinter in the country.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.– Upgrade has been a model of consistency as well as a source of frustration for trainer Chad Brown since beginning his 3-year-old campaign here at Gulfstream Park last spring. Upgrade will attempt to make up for his performance as the beaten favorite here three weeks ago when he heads a well-matched field of older, first-level allowance horses in Wednesday’s $51,500 feature at one mile on turf.

Upgrade finished second, beaten two lengths by a loose-on the-lead Doctor Peach, when bet to 8-5 going 1 1/16 miles under similar allowance conditions on Jan. 5.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Trainer Jorge Navarro is off to a hot start at Tampa Bay Downs. A Panamanian native who began training on his own three years ago, Navarro has sent out 6 winners from just 16 starters for a sizzling win percentage of 37 percent and three of his other starters have finished second.

Navarro is the stepson of Julian Canet and step-grandson of Oswaldo Canet, who won training titles at River Downs and Beulah Park in the 1960s and 1970s. Navarro says he was around horses and horsemen from an early age.

ARCADIA, Calif.- It Tiz had no success against California’s top 3-year-old fillies last year, losing four graded stakes.

For her 4-year-old debut in Sunday’s $79,150 Megahertz Stakes at Santa Anita, she faced one of the circuit’s top older turf females in Eclair de Lune. This time, It Tiz was more than up to the task.

Angel At Home might have punched her ticket to the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks on Sunday, when she was up for a neck win over the previously undefeated Paloma Mesa in the $50,000 El Paso Times. The Oaks, which is one of the premier races of the Sunland Park meet, will be run on March 27. It will be a consideration for Angel at Home, according to her trainer, Johnnie Nall.