HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - After getting off Nobiz Like Shobiz following his easy victory in the Grade 3, $150,000 Holy Bull Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park, jockey Cornelio Velasquez said what most everybody will now recognize.

"I think he's the best 3-year-old now," Velasquez said.

Nobiz Like Shobiz ($3.40) made his bid to be the pro-tem leader of the nation's 3-year-olds, and the current favorite for the Kentucky Derby, by overcoming seven rivals and a track that seemed to favor the inside to score a 1 1/2-length victory in the Holy Bull.

NEW ORLEANS - Primal Peak and Regwell, who finished one-two in a turf allowance sprint at Fair Grounds on Jan. 8, meet again in Monday's feature, a second-level allowance at 5 1/2 furlongs on the grass course.

Both horses are recent claims who have stepped up nicely into allowance competition. Cody Autrey claimed Primal Peak for $50,000 on Dec. 7, waited a month, and ran him on the grass even though he ran poorly at Churchill Downs in his only previous turf start. The 4-year-old Primal Peak turned in an impressive effort, running past Regwell late.

NEW ORLEANS - Next Saturday's Taylor's Special Handicap at 5 1/2 furlongs on the grass may be overshadowed by the four Grade 3 stakes on the Fair Grounds card but it is shaping up as a good betting event featuring several quality horses.

The Steve Asmussen-trained Gaff, winner of the Bonapaw Stakes on Dec. 23, is the likely favorite against such challengers as Gigawatt, Storm Surge, Venomous, and Yucatan.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Saturday’s program at Santa Anita, a 10-race card that features three consecutive stakes, will have a pick six carryover of $123,739.

No one hit the pick six on Friday, creating the carryover.

Saturday’s pick six covers the fifth through 10th races, including the $100,000 Sham Stakes for 3-year-olds, the $75,000 Thunder Road Handicap on turf, and the $300,000 Strub Stakes for 4-year-olds. They are run as the seventh through ninth races.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Jose Santos will be out a minimum of four to six weeks after suffering two compressed vertebrae, two cracked ribs, and a possible broken nose as a result of a spill he was involved in at Aqueduct on Thursday.

Meanwhile, fellow rider Ramon Dominguez - who was involved in the same spill - will miss at least the next two weeks due to severe swelling in his right knee. Doctors will perform an MRI on Dominguez's knee, but want to wait until the swelling subsides to do it. Dominguez is the leading rider at Aqueduct's inner track meet with 67 wins.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - One couldn't blame trainer Helen Pitts if she were both disappointed and delighted over Einstein's return to the races here earlier in the week.

Einstein, winner of the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Breeders' Cup Handicap over the turf here last winter, finished a troubled fourth under jockey Rafael Bejarano while making his first start in nearly nine months against a strong field of high-priced optional claiming rivals on Wednesday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - For the gray front-runner Preachinatthebar, 1 1/8 miles is at least a half-furlong too far, and Grade 2 class is about one notch too high.

But when he starts as the 116-pound second highweight in the $250,000 San Antonio Handicap on Sunday at Santa Anita, Preachinatthebar has one key attribute that cannot be overstated. That is, early speed.

Due to frigid temperatures and expected high winds, Turfway Park has canceled live racing for Saturday and Sunday. The facility will remain open for simulcasting and the racing office will be open.

The WEBN Stakes, originally scheduled for Saturday, will be run Feb. 10, along with the Likely Exchange Stakes. Nominations for the rescheduled WEBN Stakes will close Sunday, Feb. 4.

Citing "better-than-expected business" at Fair Grounds and its offtrack betting facilities, track management has raised overnight purses by approximately 10 percent effective with Thursday's card. The raise - $3,500 per race - is the second purse increase at this Fair Grounds meet.

Alonso Quinonez may or may not wind up as the leading rider at the long winter-spring meet at Turfway Park, but the 23-year-old apprentice would be satisfied just to keep winning races at a steady clip.

"I am so happy," said Quinonez. "I didn't know I was going to do that good. Everything is feeling real good right now."

Through Thursday at the Florence, Ky., track, Quinonez had 30 winners from a meet-high 161 mounts. Only Miguel Mena - who, like Quinonez, has Steve Elzey for his agent - had more wins, 31 through Thursday.