This week at GGF

Schedule: Thursday through Sunday

Post time: 12:45 p.m.

Feature simulcast races: Grade 2, $200,000 San Pasqual Stakes and Grade 3, $100,000 Sham Stakes — both Saturday at Santa Anita

Update: Nominations close Thursday at midnight for the $100,000 California Derby to be run Jan. 18. Entries will be taken Wednesday for the 11⁄ 16- mile race for newly turned 3-year-olds, with undefeated Exit Stage Left expected to head the field. As a 2-year-old, Exit Stage Left won his debut in the 6-furlong Golden Nugget Stakes and then captured the 1-mile Gold Rush Stakes during Golden Gate Fields’ fall meeting. Exit Stage Left has recorded five good workouts since the Dec. 7 Gold Rush Stakes. … Russell Baze rebounded from a 1-for-25 first week of the winter-spring season by winning with 10 of 34 mounts last week to take his customary place atop the jockey standings. Alejandro Gomez (9-for-39) and Dennis Carr (9-for-54) are tied for second. … The New York Times’ lengthy profile of Baze, written and narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barry Bearak, earned an Eclipse Award in the Audio/Multi-Media Internet category.

Elsewhere: As expected, the Jerry Hollendorfer-trained Shared Belief and the Jeff Bonde-trained She’s a Tiger are among the Eclipse Award finalists announced Wednesday. Unbeaten Shared Belief is joined in the 2-year-old male category by New Year’s Day and Havana, who finished 1-2 in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. She’s a Tiger, disqualified from a nose victory over Ria Antonia in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, is joined by that horse and Chrisellium as finalists among 2-year-old fillies. … Hollendorfer also has a finalist among male sprinters with Sahara Sky, who is joined by Points Offthebench and Secret Circle. … My choices for trainer (Hollendorfer), jockey (Mike Smith) and apprentice jockey (Jose L. Ortiz) didn’t make the final cut. The finalists instead are trainers Bob Baffert, Bill Mott and Todd Pletcher; jockeys Javier Castellano, Joel Rosario and Gary Stevens, and apprentices Victor Carrasco, Manuel Franco and Edgard Zayas