HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Grant Jack, who is proven class as a stakes winner at two turns, and Archarcharch, who showed raw talent in winning his maiden in a stakes race, meet for the first time Monday in the $100,000 Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park.

The race is the first of three preps for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby on April 16. It will be run at a mile, and will end at the sixteenth pole, as with all races at the distance at Oaklawn.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Fort Hughes will look to avenge a narrow loss to Royal Currier when he faces that rival and four other 3-year-olds in Monday’s $65,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes, the Aqueduct feature on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Jockey Joe Bravo probably said it best when summing up the performance by the amazing old pro Joey P. after the 9-year-old had reasserted himself after relinquishing the lead near midstretch to outgame the favored Safe Trip and win Friday’s fifth race.

“How cool is that?” said Bravo who has been aboard Joey P. for 13 of his 18 career victories.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Little Mike, upset winner of the Grade 3 Fort Lauderdale Stakes for trainer Allen Iwinski last Sunday, has been transferred to trainer Dale Romans's barn, the gelding’s owner-breeder Carlo Vaccarezza said on Saturday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer David Fawkes said it would have been a little embarrassing to show up at Monday’s night’s Eclipse Award ceremonies had his Eclipse Award candidate Big Drama lost his 2011 debut 48 hours earlier in Gulfstream Park’s $100,000 Mr. Prospector Handicap.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Last January, Champ Pegasus was a maiden. By July, he was a two-time winner and stakes-placed. By October, he was a two-time stakes winner. A month later, he nearly won the nation’s biggest turf race in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs.

All that makes for high anticipation for Champ Pegasus’s 2011 campaign, which begins in Monday’s $150,000 San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita.

Ben’s Cat, whose eight-race unbeaten streak ended when he shipped to New York for a two-turn overnight stakes, returns to Maryland and resumes racing around just one turn in Monday’s holiday feature, the $75,000 Native Dancer Stakes at Laurel Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Square Eddie returned from a layoff of more than 11 months to win an allowance race over 6 1/2 furlongs in track record time of 1:13.11 in Friday’s seventh race at Santa Anita.

Square Eddie was on or near the led throughout the allowance race, setting early fractions of 21.47 and 43.47 seconds. He ran through the six-furlong mark in 1:06.81 and finished 3 1/4 lengths over Stacy Hope without being urged in the last few strides.

Decisive Moment was second-best shipping from Florida to Louisiana for the rich Delta Jackpot on Nov. 20, but second to none when back for another Delta try in the $250,000 Jean Lafitte Stakes on Friday night.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Oaklawn Park resumed morning training Saturday for the first time in five days following a snowstorm that had forced the track to cancel Friday’s opening-day card. The meet is scheduled to begin on Saturday.

More than five inches of snow fell on Hot Springs late Sunday, leading to the cancellation of training from Monday through Thursday. Oaklawn was able to open its track for training late Friday afternoon, after maintenance crews harrowed the surface for about eight hours.