From just about every handicapping angle, Jannas Pride looks like a reliable favorite Thursday in the $120,000 Red Hedeman Mile at Sunland Park.

He is unbeaten at the race’s distance, he owns the field’s best last-race Beyer Speed Figure, he has already defeated six of the 10 horses he will face, and he comes into the stakes white-hot. Jannas Pride has won his last three races, his most recent the $129,000 Eddy County at Zia Park on Dec. 5.

Already this winter, trainer Steve Margolis has sent out 2-year-old fillies Bouquet Booth and Little Miss Holly to noteworthy Louisiana victories, and Switching Gears can join Margolis’s list of 2011 3-year-old filly stakes hopefuls with a win in the featured sixth race Thursday at Fair Grounds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – At face value, it may not seem like a first-level open company allowance race at Aqueduct would be a class drop from a starter allowance race at Parx Racing. But the field Bells of Concerto meets in Thursday’s $47,000 allowance feature at the Big A seems significantly inferior to what she ran against last time.

In fact, on paper, Thursday’s first-level allowance sprint may be the easiest spot Bells of Concerto has been in since trainer Scott Volk claimed her for $25,000 at Gulfstream Park last March.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The consistent Amazombie has won 4 of 8 starts this year, a career-best season for the 4-year-old gelding. He has won everything but a stakes race, and that may be on his agenda in 2011 if he runs well in a $68,000 allowance race at Santa Anita on Thursday.

Trained and co-owned by Bill Spawr, Amazombie was entered for the $75,000 On Trust Handicap for statebreds at Hollywood Park on Dec. 19, but the race was canceled when significant rainfall left the track uneven.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Two days into the winter-spring meeting, trainer Bob Baffert has already won maiden races with the exciting 2-year-olds The Factor and Uncle Sam.

The Factor broke a 21-year-old track record Sunday, winning a six-furlong maiden race by 8 1/4 lengths in 1:06.98. On Monday, Uncle Sam won his debut in a one-mile maiden race by 2 3/4 lengths, earning a 77 Beyer Figure.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jeranimo showed Monday that he belongs in the conversation regarding California’s top handicap horses. His timing could not be better.

The 4-year-old colt’s win in the $150,000 San Gabriel Stakes was his second Grade 2 win this year and was a prep for two lucrative stakes in coming months.

Owner B.J. Wright has the $300,000 Sunshine Millions Turf for California-breds and Florida-breds on Jan. 29 as a short-term goal, with the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap on the main track March 5 as a late-winter goal.

Changing surfaces is not an issue.

MIAMI – Trainer Leo Azpurua Jr.’s rising 2-year-old hopeful Manicero is back at his Calder base looking for new worlds to conquer after posting his second straight stakes victory Sunday, a hard-fought, one-length decision in Tampa Bay Downs’ Inaugural.

The win was the third in a row and easily the toughest yet for the son of Mass Media who dominated his competition winning his maiden and capturing the Jack Price Juvenile here earlier this fall.

ARCADIA, Calif. -- Each time he returns from a layoff, Jeranimo seems to get better.

He was off for six months from April to October of 2009 and returned for a seven-race campaign that was highlighted by a win in the Grade 2 Strub Stakes last February.

Jeranimo was sidelined again in March of this year, because of a tibia injury, and returned to racing in October. Monday, in the third start of his current campaign, Jeranimo won the second Grade 2 stakes of his career in the $150,000 San Gabriel Stakes on turf at Santa Anita.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainers Rick Violette and Mike Hushion were each winning at 50 percent clip at the Aqueduct winter meet before racing went on a 10-day holiday hiatus. When racing returns Wednesday, the two hot barns square off in the $47,000, first-level allowance feature at six furlongs.

The race only drew a field of six and will go as race 2, which means it will not be part of the pick six that begins the day with a carryover of $36,839.

Gulfstream Park announced Monday that it will give random breathalyzer tests to jockeys, stewards, assistant starters, and members of the gate crew beginning with the opening of the 2011 meet on Jan. 5.

“The safety and integrity of the sport have always been priorities at Gulfstream Park,” said Tim Ritvo, vice president of racing for MI Developments. “We want to minimize the safety risks, the injuries, and accidents due to the inappropriate use of alcohol and insure the professionalism of the sport of Thoroughbred racing.”