ARCADIA, Calif. - Palladio, who finished second in the Sunshine Millions Classic at Santa Anita in January, will miss Saturday's $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap after becoming upset in the moments before a flight was scheduled to leave Florida on Wednesday morning, trainer Roger Attfield said.

Attfield suspected the incident could have been caused by the presence of a full plane of horses. Palladio was flown from Florida to California in January, but Attfield said, "the last time it was not a full plane."

Trainer Mike Stidham had two live horses entered for turf Saturday, but even though grass races wound up being rained onto the main track, Tizaqueena and Tybalt won anyway.

Greg Geier spent much of his racing career working as an assistant to trainer Gene Cilio. After Cilio passed away, Geier became a head trainer himself, and since having his name down in the program for the first time in 2003, Geier has steadily hung in there. In eight calendar years in charge of strings in Chicago and New Orleans, Geier has won 213 races from 2,013 runners. He has sent out 23 starters in graded stakes races and won with two of them.

Tidal Pool, who had been probable for the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks on March 26 off a stirring allowance win at Oaklawn, instead will target the Grade 2, $300,000 Fantasy here April 2, said her trainer, D. Wayne Lukas.

"She's doing well," he said. "I just want to take her to the Fantasy, give her the extra time off after that big effort.

"She's got the highest Beyer and best Rag sheet number of any filly in the nation."

ARCADIA, Calif. - Comments by Santa Anita chairman Frank Stronach that he intends to retain the track's troubled synthetic surface were met with disappointment Wednesday by some horsemen who would like the track to return to a dirt surface.

Darrell Vienna, the Southern California vice president of the California Thoroughbred Trainers, said his organization wants the existing Pro-Ride surface replaced in the near future.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Gone Astray flew in Wednesday afternoon from Florida to start as the 119-pound highweight in Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Razorback Handicap at Oaklawn. The 1 1/16-mile race will be his first start following a 3-year-old season in which he won the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby and the Grade 2 Ohio Derby.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Lookin At Lucky, the champion 2-year-old colt of 2009, is likely headed to Oaklawn Park for the Grade 2, $300,000 Rebel Stakes on March 13, leaving Tiz Chrome to represent trainer Bob Baffert in that day's Grade 2, $150,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita.

Baffert on Wednesday said he was leaning in that direction after watching Tiz Chrome work seven furlongs in 1:25.40 under jockey Martin Garcia, who will have the mount on Tiz Chrome. Garrett Gomez rides Lookin at Lucky, who worked seven furlongs in 1:25.20 on Monday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Ten new names are in the lineup of 23 separately listed wagering interests in Pool 2 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager, which opens Friday at noon Eastern at racetracks and wagering outlets throughout North America.

New horses for Pool 2 include Caracortado and Nextdoorneighbor, the first two Derby contenders that Southern California-based Mike Machowsky has ever trained.

Trainer Steve Specht is looking for a stakes for Antares World, and Bill Morey Jr. is looking for an allowance race for Trapper's Bounty after both 3-year-old fillies won nicely last week at Golden Gate Fields.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - There are signs the Apple Blossom Invitational is getting closer. On Thursday at Gulfstream Park, the Venezuelan star Bambera will work toward an intended start in the race. On Saturday afternoon, the local prep, the Grade 3, $150,000 Azeri, will be run at Oaklawn. And on March 10, nominations close for the Apple Blossom.