ARCADIA, Calif. - Tapizar’s win in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday confirmed trainer Steve Asmussen’s belief that the colt will play an important role in the build-up to the Kentucky Derby.

Tapizar won his stakes debut in the Sham, disputing the pace through the first quarter-mile before taking the lead and winning by 4 1/4 lengths in a quick 1:40.38 for 1 1/16 miles. Tapizar earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 97 in the Sham, which was preceded by an emphatic win by 10 1/2 lengths against maidens at Churchill Downs on Nov. 27.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It will take a little quality and a lot of stamina to win Wednesday’s featured eighth race at Gulfstream Park, a 1 1/2-mile, entry-level allowance test over the inner turf course that carries a $51,000 purse.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Manicero and Devilish Lady both passed their first tests as 3-year-olds on Saturday at Tampa Bay Downs. Manicero won the Pasco Stakes and Devilish Lady the Gasparilla Stakes, and now both look to the future.

Manicero,who won the Inaugural Stakes here in his final start at 2, proved that win was no fluke with a half-length win over Bert B Don in the Pasco as the two south Florida invaders duplicated their Inaugural finish. Leo Azpurua Jr., who trains Manicero for his father Leo Sr., said Sunday that Manicaro came out of the Pasco in good shape.

ARCADIA, Calif.- Always a Princess upset Blind Luck in Sunday’s $150,000 El Encino Stakes at Santa Anita, taking advantage of a track that favors speed in two-turn races to win by 3 1/2 lengths.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Win Willy launched what his connections hope will be a big Oaklawn Park meet on Sunday, when he overcame a controlled pace to win the $75,000 Fifth Season by a neck over Stachys. It was another half-length back in third to Kate’s Main Man.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.-  Adirondack Summer nipped Brilliant Speed by a nose to capture Sunday’s $100,000 Dania Beach Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Rallying from last at the head of the stretch under jockey Alan Garcia, Adirondack Summer ($11) finished full of run on the extreme outside to win his stakes debut for owner Peter Deutsch and trainer Christophe Clement. Master Dunker finished another 1 1/4 lengths farther back in third.

Jockey Omar Berrio’s return to riding from a minor stroke suffered on Dec. 30 has been postponed until next week.

Berrio was booked to ride Straightomidnight in Sunday’s first race, but was taken off the gelding on Sunday morning after failing to receive doctor’s clearance, according to steward Tom Ward.

Ward spoke with Berrio on Sunday morning. Berrio told Ward that he must undergo further consultation with doctors before being allowed to resume riding.

“The doctor wants more information,” Ward said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - After enduring a rare oh-fer on Saturday, jockey Ramon Dominguez won three races on Sunday’s card, capped by a three-length victory aboard 4-5 favorite Quiet Giant in the $60,000 Lady On the Run Stakes at Aqueduct.

After stalking the pacesetting Wind Caper through fractions of 23.79 and 47.56 seconds, Quiet Giant and Dominguez drew on even terms with that rival at the five-sixteenths pole. Quiet Giant ran outside of Wind Caper until just inside the eighth pole when, despite attempting to lug in, she drew clear to get the relatively easy victory.

ARCADIA, Calif.-Twirling Candy, who set a seven-furlong track record in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes on Dec. 26, breezed five furlongs in 1:00.60 at Santa Anita on Sunday.

The exercise, in company with the claimer Hammurabi, who was given the same time and the designation breezing, was the first work for Twirling Candy since the Malibu. Trainer John Sadler said that Twirling Candy missed four or five days of training in early January because of a bruised foot.

ALBANY, Calif. – X-rays were negative after Hall of Fame jockey Russell Baze injured his neck when dumped by Joffe’s Run prior to the running of the first race at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday.

Baze was taken to Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, but the X-rays were clean. His neck was sprained and bruised, but he is listed as day-to-day and may be able to ride Sunday.