Ricardo Santana Jr., an eight-time leading rider at Oaklawn Park, will return to the Hot Springs, Ark., track for the upcoming winter meet, agent P.J. Campo said Monday.

Santana, who moved his tack to New York last May following Oaklawn, will start riding at Oaklawn when that track opens Dec. 12. With the exception of Dec. 20, when he’ll be at Remington Park, Santana will ride at Oaklawn through Jan. 4. When Oaklawn closes for three weeks in January, Santana plans to ride at Aqueduct before returning to Oaklawn when it resumes its winter season on Jan. 30.

There is a carryover of $350,907 in the jackpot pick six on Wednesday’s card, which begins the final five-day stand at Churchill Downs for this meet. The nominal feature on the card is a $127,000 sprint allowance for fillies and mares who have never won a race other-than or who have never won twice.

Trainer Michael Campbell is at Tampa Bay Downs again this winter. His stable’s star, Patriot Spirit, will join him there later this winter.

Patriot Spirit won the Grade 3 Vosburgh at Aqueduct to earn an automatic berth into the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, where he finished 13th in the 14-horse field. Campbell said Patriot Spirit’s trips from Kentucky to Del Mar and in the Breeders’ Cup were difficult, and the horse is getting a few months off in Kentucky. Following a physical examination, all checked out well with Patriot Spirit, Campbell said.

Ted Noffey, the undefeated winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, has been made the 6-1 individual favorite in the Kentucky Derby Future Wager pool opening on Thursday.

Ted Noffey, who is the likely 2-year-old champion, is one of 39 individual horses being offered in the pool, which will close on Sunday. The final entry, “all others foaled in 2023,” is the 9-5 favorite.

Assael Espinoza, a leading rider in Northern California in recent years, has relocated to Oaklawn Park in Arkansas in advance of the track’s lucrative winter-spring meeting that opens on Dec. 12.

Espinoza has not ridden in California since Oct. 5. He said earlier this week that he spent much of October visiting family in Mexico before working horses earlier this month at Churchill Downs. Espinoza had one mount at Churchill on Nov. 15 before moving to Hot Springs, Ark., to prepare for the Oaklawn meeting.

Few Southern California trainers are as eager as George Papaprodromou for the resumption of racing at Del Mar on Saturday.

Papaprodromou and John Sadler begin the weekend tied for first in the trainer standings with six wins. Papaprodromou is seeking his first training title.

Friday’s program was canceled because of overnight rain, leading the track to alter its racing schedule this weekend to a Saturday-through-Monday format. Papaprodromou has nine runners over those days compared to six for Sadler.