ARCADIA, Calif. - Since her debut win at 2 at Del Mar in 2014, Tara’s Tango has been held in the highest regard by Stonestreet Stable and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer. It took much longer than expected for her to win her first graded stakes.

Saturday, Tara’s Tango won the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles, closing from fifth of eight to win by a half-length as the 8-5 favorite. The win left Hollendorfer planning a start in the $500,000 Santa Margarita Invitational for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on March 19.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Songbird, the undefeated champion 2-year-old filly of 2015, breezed a half-mile in 48.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Sunday, eight days after winning her 3-year-old debut in the Grade 2 Las Virgenes Stakes.

Trained by Jerry Hollendorfer, Songbird worked alone. Hollendorfer had planned to work Songbird on Monday, but opted to move the exercise forward by 24 hours.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Colour Me Happy won a maiden race on turf in Newmarket, England, last October, then was purchased by Kosta and Pete Hronis and sent to trainer John Sadler at Santa Anita. When Colour Me Happy makes his U.S. debut in an optional claimer at a mile in Monday’s third race, it will be his first appearance on a turf course since arriving in this country.

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There were many reasons for Mike Luzzi to call it quits after the serious injuries he suffered in a freak paddock accident at Aqueduct in the fall of 2014. There was one motivating factor for him to try to get back.

Lane Luzzi, Mike’s son, wanted to be a jockey. Mike wanted to show him the ropes, and the two were hopeful of one day riding together.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Dwight Pruett has owned horses for just three years but already has landed what most in the industry are chasing – a 3-year-old on the road to the Kentucky Derby.

Discreetness, who races for Pruett’s Xpress Thoroughbreds, will be out to win his third straight stakes race Monday in the Grade 3, $500,000 Southwest at Oaklawn Park. He won the $250,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park in December, then took down Oaklawn’s first 3-year-old prep, the $150,000 Smarty Jones in January, to pick up 10 eligibility points for the Kentucky Derby.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Services for Shawn Thomas, the 48-year-old son of trainer Gary Thomas, are scheduled for Wednesday at the chapel on the backstretch of Oaklawn. The memorial will begin at noon Central.

Thomas died in a car accident in Macon, Ga., on Feb. 7. Friends said he was traveling to Ocala, Fla.

Thomas, who was born in Ruidoso, N.M., was a resident of Louisville, Ky. He worked as both an assistant trainer and exercise rider for his father, a longtime horseman based in Kentucky and Arkansas.

Shawn Thomas will be buried in Kentucky.

NEW ORLEANS – Graded stakes winners Airoforce and Mo Tom head a field of 13 3-year-olds entered Friday for the $400,000, Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 20 at Fair Grounds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Ralph Theroux Jr., who has worked in racing since 1961, will retire following the conclusion of Monday’s Aqueduct card.

Theroux, 69, started as a hotwalker and groom for Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens in 1961 and worked in the industry as a jockey’s agent, an entry clerk and placing/patrol judge, and an alternate steward. Theroux has worked in the racing office at the New York Racing Association tracks since February 2005.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Adventist, the third-place finisher in the Grade 3 Withers on Jan. 30, worked four furlongs in 50.63 seconds Friday over the Belmont Park training track in preparation for the Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham Stakes on March 5.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A field of 11 New York-bred sprinters was entered for Monday’s $100,000 Hollie Hughes Stakes, including full brothers Towering Moon and Escape to the Moon.

Towering Moon, 7, and Escape to the Moon, 6, are both geldings by Malibu Moon out of the Giant’s Causeway mare Towering Escape.