OUT OF THE GATE

Through Thursday

Juan Hernandez / 22 Antonio Fresu / 19

Flavien Prat / 18

Frankie Dettori / 12 Umberto Rispoli / 11 Trainers / Wins

Mark Glatt / 14

Philip D'Amato / 12

Doug O'Neill / 10

Bob Baffert / 9

Steve Knapp / 9

WEEKEND STAKES (SANTA ANITA)

Saturday

▪ $200,000 Grade II Santa Monica Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 7 furlongs

▪ $200,000 Grade III Robert B. Lewis Stakes, 3-year-olds, 1 mile ▪ $100,000 Grade III Megahertz Stakes, fillies and mares, 4-year-olds and up, 1mile (turf) ▪ $100,000 Grade III Thunder Road Stakes, 4-yearolds and up, 1mile (turf) Sunday

▪ $100,000 Grade III Las Virgenes Stakes, 3-yearold fillies, 1 mile

▪ $100,000 Grade III San Marcos Stakes, 4-yearolds and up, 1¼ miles (turf) ▪ The top two colts in our Derby Super Six rankings – Fierceness and Nysos – are scheduled to make their 3-year-old debuts on Saturday. Nysos will be going two turns for the first time while facing eight rivals in the $200,000 Grade III Robert B. Lewis Stakes at Santa Anita at a mile. Flavien Prat will ride the 4-5 morning-line favorite, who has won his two starts by a combined 19¼ lengths. At Gulfstream Park, Fierceness is part of an eight-horse field in the $250,000 Grade III Holy Bull Stakes at 1 1/16 miles. He's the 3-5 morning-line favorite.

▪ The connections for San Pasqual Stakes winner Newgrange have a decision to make – run in the $400,000 Big 'Cap at Santa Anita on March 2 over a track he loves or ship the 5-year-old son of Violence to Dubai for the $12 million World Cup on March 30. “I think we'd been talking about if he had run a race like this, you know maybe taking a big swing at something like Dubai,” trainer Philip D'Amato said after Newgrange's gateto-wire, one-length victory in last Saturday's San Pasqual. “It's going to be even tougher there, but the money is incredible.”

▪ Slow Down Andy, sidelined by filling in his ankle following a victory in the Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 30, is back in training for Doug O'Neill. The 5-year-old son of Nyquist worked 4 furlongs in 48.20 seconds at Santa Anita on Sunday. “He's doing well,” O'Neill told Victor Ryan of Santa Anita publicity. “He didn't need any surgery. He was just jarred up after his win and needed some time. His recovery went as smooth as you could hope.” O'Neill said he expects Slow

Down Andy to return to the races later this winter or early spring. “No potential race for him at this point,” O'Neill said.

— Art Wilson