ARCADIA, Calif. – Not Now Carolyn joined trainer Keith Desormeaux’s stable at the beginning of the year after losses in two maiden races for sprinters. Two months later, she is a winner bound for a graded stakes.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that Not Now Carolyn’s stakes debut is in Saturday’s $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita. The race has drawn Songbird, the unbeaten champion 2-year-old filly of 2015.

Desormeaux is not deterred. The Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes at 1 1/16 miles fits Not Now Carolyn’s schedule.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hoppertunity, the Bob Baffert-trained winner of the Grade 2 San Antonio on Feb. 6 at Santa Anita, worked a fast six furlongs Wednesday at Santa Anita as he prepares for the $10 million Dubai World Cup on March 26.

Flavien Prat, who rode Hoppertunity in the San Antonio, worked the 5-year-old after the 9 a.m. break. Hoppertunity broke off slightly behind an unraced maiden, moved to even terms on the turn, and finished alongside. Clockers timed the work in 1:10.60, the fastest of the morning.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Grade 2 Mac Diarmida here on Saturday will mark the 2016 debut of the 7-year-old Twilight Eclipse, who will make his fourth appearance in the 1 3/8-mile turf event for 4-year-olds and up. Twilight Eclipse won the race in 2014 and finished second a year ago.

Last year, Twilight Eclipse won the Grade 1 Man o’ War at Belmont Park and finished third in three other Grade 1 races – the United Nations at Monmouth, the Sword Dancer at Saratoga, and the Turf Classic at Belmont.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Saturday’s main event at Gulfstream Park, the $500,000 Gulfstream Park Handicap, will not be affected by the quarantine at Payson Park because none of the 19 horses nominated to the race is stabled there. An unidentified horse tested positive for the equine herpesvirus at Payson on Monday, leaving the approximately 480 horses stabled there in quarantine for 21 days.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The quarantine that will prevent horses stabled at Payson Park from racing here for at least the next three weeks should have a minimal effect on entries, P.J. Campo, Gulfstream Park’s general manager and vice president of racing, said on Wednesday. An unidentified horse tested positive for the equine herpesvirus at Payson Park on Monday, leaving the approximately 480 horses stabled there in quarantine for 21 days.

Michael Dickinson has upped the ante as he prepares for his return to training by pumping a huge amount of money into his 250-acre Tapeta Farm, which sits hard by the upper Chesapeake Bay outside the Maryland town of North East.

[bc_video_id:378221:]ARCADIA, Calif. – The first workout of Beholder’s comeback woke her up Tuesday at Santa Anita, according to trainer Richard Mandella.

Beholder worked three furlongs in 36.60 seconds, her first breeze of the year as she prepares for a 6-year-old campaign expected to begin June 4 in the Grade 1 Vanity.

“It’s just a matter of starting to build her up a little bit,” Mandella said. The work accomplished more than that.

“It wound her up,” Mandella said. “She’s been quiet; that [work] was all she needed. It brought it all back.”

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn Park reached the halfway point of its meet Saturday, and an agreeable stretch of weather, record purses, and frantic claiming have been the hallmarks of the season that will continue through Arkansas Derby Day on April 16. The track also has put up strong handle and attendance numbers, while field size is averaging 9.82 runners a race.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Jockey Antonio Gallardo is well on his way to breaking his own record for wins at a Tampa Bay Downs meet, with 92 victories from 343 mounts (27 percent) through Sunday. Gallardo’s mounts have earned $1.25 million at the meet, well ahead of Daniel Centeno, who ranks second in both mount earnings ($815,660) and wins (51). Gallardo’s mounts have finished in the money 55 percent of the time at the meet.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – When it comes to his 3-year-old Sunny Ridge, trainer Jason Servis doesn’t feel the need for speed.