HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Although she was among the original invitees to the Pegasus World Cup Turf on Jan. 25, Starship Jubilee will run instead this weekend as the biggest name Saturday among the four Sunshine Millions races at Gulfstream.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – While several of his best horses are nearing their 2020 debuts, trainer Kenny McPeek has shelved his top Kentucky Derby hope after Fighting Seabee recently suffered a minor injury in training at the Summerfield training center.

“He was marginal for the Derby anyway, but you never know how they might develop,” McPeek said. “He’ll be out at least 60 days.”

Fighting Seabee was seventh at 9-1 in the Nov. 30 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs in his final start at 2 after finishing second in the Street Sense.

Todd Pletcher has used Tampa Bay Downs as a critical testing ground in recent years for some promising young horses. Shipping across the Florida peninsula from his winter base of Palm Beach Downs in Delray Beach, Pletcher won maiden or first-level allowances the past three years with four horses that wound up running a few months later in the Kentucky Derby – Always Dreaming (the 2017 winner), Vino Rosso, Magnum Moon, and Spinoff.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The multiple Grade 1 winner Spiced Perfection and the graded stakes winners Mo Forza and Texas Wedge are scheduled to start at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 25 for trainer Peter Miller.

Spiced Perfection was withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade 3 La Canada Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita in favor of the Grade 2 Inside Information Stakes at seven furlongs at Gulfstream Park later this month. Miller said on Saturday that the owners of Spiced Perfection – Adam Wachtel, Peter Deutsch, and Len Schleifer – want to keep the 5-year-old mare in one-turn races.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Smiling Shirlee was second or third in three consecutive stakes for California-bred 2-year-old fillies in the final five months of 2019. For the start of her 2020 campaign, Smiling Shirlee will be given a different assignment – her turf debut in Saturday’s $200,000 California Cup Oaks for 3-year-old statebred fillies at a mile at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Joel Rosario, the leading rider at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, will ride in Saudi Arabia on Friday and Saturday, according to his agent, Ron Anderson.

Rosario, who was to turn 35 on Tuesday, is scheduled to return to Santa Anita for Sunday’s program, Anderson said. There is also racing at Santa Anita on Monday, Jan. 20.

Through Sunday, Rosario led all riders with 15 wins, four more than Abel Cedillo. Rosario had three wins on Sunday, including on Mother Mother in the $81,700 Kalookan Queen Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Storm the Court, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in November, was moments from starting a five-furlong solo workout at Santa Anita on Sunday when trainer Peter Eurton described his strategy for the exercise.

Storm the Court was scheduled to work alone, leaving Eurton without expectations for a quick time in the build-up to the colt’s scheduled 2020 debut in the Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 9.

“It’s hard to get real serious until you put them in company,” he said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Queen Bee to You won her third consecutive stakes in Saturday’s Grade 3 La Canada Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita and is likely to revert to sprinting for the Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes at seven furlongs on Feb. 15.

“That’s probably the plan,” trainer Andrew Lerner said on Sunday. “I think seven-eighths is her best distance. A mile and a sixteenth is probably pushing it.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Apprentice jockey Luis Cardenas recorded his first career victory Friday when, despite stumbling at the head of the lane and dropping his whip in deep stretch, he was able to rally Solitary Gem to a 3 1/2-length victory in the eighth race at Aqueduct.

The win came in Cardenas’ 15th career mount and one race after he finished second on 43-1 shot Sea Sparkle.

“Very excited, very emotional, very overwhelmed to be here in New York especially racing with the big guys,” Cardenas, 22, said after getting doused with water by his fellow riders.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The four-time stakes winner Baja Sur will have his Southern California debut in the $150,000 California Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Jan. 18, three weeks after the 4-year-old was held out of the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes.

Trainer Blaine Wright said on Friday he has no regrets passing the Malibu Stakes, which was won convincingly by Omaha Beach under jockey Mike Smith.

“It looked like Mike never moved his hands on him,” Wright said. “I know my horse was good at the time. The object is to win.