Trainer Todd Pletcher said he'll likely run two of his top handicap performers, Quality Road and Harlem Rocker, in Sunday's $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap at Gulfstream. The Grade 3 Hal's Hope highlights the opening-day program of the 2010 Gulfstream meeting.

MIAMI - This Ones for Phil coughed a few times on Saturday morning, just hours before he was to go postward as the likely favorite in Calder's Grade 3 Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap. And his trainer, Rick Dutrow, couldn't have been happier.

Dutrow scratched This Ones for Phil from the Kenny Noe but was able to send him right back out to work a half-mile over the turf at Gulfstream Park the following morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Macias won his second stakes, and first on turf, in Monday's $72,150 Eddie Logan Stakes at Santa Anita.

Macias ran a mile on turf in 1:35.11, finishing three-quarters of a length in front of Alfarabi, the 3-2 favorite who rallied from last in the field of eight. Thomas Baines finished third, 2 3-4 lengths behind the winner.

Macias ($7.40) stalked pacesetter Lucks Mine through early fractions of 23.2 and 46.81 seconds and took the lead in early stretch.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The connections of Wishful Tomcat do plan to try their New York-bred against open company stakes horses again, but they just don't plan to do it right away.

Wishful Tomcat returned from a six-month layoff with a professional 2 3/4-length victory in Sunday's $69,550 Alex M. Robb Handicap for New York-breds at Aqueduct. It was his seventh consecutive victory against New York-breds dating back to December 2007. In between, he did win the Grade 3 Discovery last year, but lost three consecutive tries against graded stakes company earlier in 2009.

Proudinsky's win in Sunday's $150,000 San Gabriel at Santa Anita could lead to a start in the $150,000 San Marcos Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf here Jan. 18, trainer Humberto Ascanio said.

The San Gabriel was Proudinsky's first win since the Grade 2 Mervin Muniz Handicap at Fair Grounds last March and first start since a fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park on Nov. 27.

"He was real fresh in the Citation," Ascanio said.

Romantic Hideaway handled the class rise from a first-level allowance to easily win her stakes debut in Monday's $75,000 Brandywine at Philadelphia Park.

Jockey Mario Pino placed Romantic Hideaway ($4.80) behind a pace contested by Vindy City, the maiden Our Eponene, and 4-5 favorite Simply Spiteful through early fractions of 22.48 and 46.41 seconds. Romantic Hideaway swung wide coming into the stretch and drew clear to win by two lengths while completing six furlongs on a fast track in 1:10.94.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - While the co-featured Sandpiper and Inaugural stakes both produced exciting blanket finishes, the single most impressive performance on last Saturday's Cotillion Festival program at Tampa Bay Downs may have been the debut of Uptowncharlybrown in the eighth race.

Trained by Allen Seewald, Uptowncharlybrown is a 2-year-old chestnut Limehouse colt out of the Langfuhr mare La Iluminada and is a half-brother to stakes-winning West Coast sprinter Startjumpin Marnie.

Antares World, who lost the one-mile Corte Madera by a head, tops the list of 12 nominees to the $75,000 California Oaks, which is scheduled to be run Friday, New Year's Day, at Golden Gate Fields.

In the Dec. 5 Corte Madera, Antares World was beaten by Salty Fries, who ran fourth as the second choice in Sunday's $100,000 California Breeders' Champion Stakes at Santa Anita. She previously beat Salty Fries in an allowance race in her first try around two turns.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The last-place finish by Lava Man in Sunday's $150,000 San Gabriel Handicap at Santa Anita left trainer Doug O'Neill blaming himself for not having the 8-year-old gelding fit enough for his first start in 18 months and pondering how to approach a 2010 campaign.

O'Neill said Lava Man could be sent to veterinarian Doug Herthel at Alamo Pintado Equine Clinic in central California for a medical checkup in coming days. The trainer indicated that a start in January is possible for the gelding, who has won 17 of 47 starts, $5,268,706, and seven Grade 1 races.

Stealth Cat loves Sunland Park. She improved her record at the New Mexico track to 6 for 11 on Sunday, when she ran down pacesetter Cape of Bradford in the $50,000 Bold Ego Stakes.

Last year, Stealth Cat was second in the 5 1/2-furlong race for fillies and mares.

Stealth Cat ($6.80) raced in sixth early, as Cape of Bradford was clear through fractions of 44.78 seconds for the opening half-mile and 57.13 for five furlongs. Stealth Cat overtook the leader in the stretch and covered the distance on a fast track in 1:03.78.