OLDSMAR, Fla. – Fast Flying Rumor is targeting the $100,000 Pelican Stakes on Feb. 20 at Tampa Bay Downs after dominating an optional $50,000 claimer on the main track here last Friday for his third consecutive win. The Pelican is a six-furlong sprint for 4-year-olds and up on the main track.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After defeating fellow New York-breds in Saturday’s Gander Stakes at Aqueduct, the 3-year-old Governor Malibu will step into open company for his next start, trainer Christophe Clement said Monday.

Where and when that will occur will be determined at a later date.

“I really don’t know yet,” Clement said Monday from Payson Park in Florida, where Governor Malibu was due to ship Wednesday. “I know all the races, ambitious to less ambitious. We’ll shop around.”

Defending race winner Marino’s Wild Cat, who hasn’t started since a third-place finish last April that snapped a three-race win streak, is expected to make his return in next Monday’s $50,000 Lost in the Fog at six furlongs at Golden Gate Fields. He has had 13 works since the end of last October, winding up with a six-furlong move in 1:10.80 on Feb. 3.

“He should be ready,” trainer Cliff DeLima said of his multiple stakes winner.

Trainer Blaine Wright plans to enter Holdthismiss, just claimed for $62,500 on Jan. 1, and Mah Gellin.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – The second-biggest day of the Tampa Bay Downs meet comes Saturday, when Festival Preview Day offers four stakes worth $650,000 in total, including a trio of Grade 3 stakes. The event serves as a prelude to Festival Day on March 12, when four stakes worth $850,000 in total will be run.

The Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes is for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles and is a prep for the biggest race of the meet, the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Derby, which offers qualifying points for the Kentucky Derby to its top four finishers.

Trainer Manny Badilla was philosophical about Code Warrior’s fourth-place finish in her route debut in last Saturday’s California Oaks. The favored 3-year-old filly lost for the first time at Golden Gate Fields.

“I knew when we drew the rail it was trouble in River City,” he said. “It was very educational for her to get pinned down on the rail.”

Although she seemed capable of taking the lead based on her sprint fractions, jockey Anne Sanguinetti kept her off the pace.

In 2008, a Cinderella story unfolded for owner Johnny Taboada in the Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby when Autism Awareness, the longest shot on the board, scored the biggest upset ($126) in the race’s history.

Autism Awareness, a $1,000 purchase at the Northern California yearling sale in Pleasanton, was not a one-hit wonder. The next year, he won a four-way photo in the Grade 3 Berkeley, beating millionaires Bold Chieftain and Awesome Gem. He earned $356,732 in his career.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Keith Desormeaux has big hopes for 2016. It is the only way to go forward. The events of the last two years command high expectations.

Desormeaux won the first Grade 1 race and the first seven-figure race of his career when Texas Red won the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita in 2014. Last year, his stable had record single-season earnings of $3,834,257, ranking 34th in the nation.

Three of the principal runners from 2015 – Exaggerator, Swipe, and Texas Red – are the core of what could be another milestone season this year.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Nyquist, the undefeated champion 2-year-old male of 2015, was pronounced ready for the start of his 3-year-old season in the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes on Feb. 15 after a five-furlong workout in 59.38 seconds at Santa Anita on Sunday.

The Grade 2 San Vicente Stakes at seven furlongs will be the first start for Nyquist since he clinched the division championship with a win in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Oct. 31.

ARCADIA, Calif. -  Flamboyant remained perfect in two starts at the winter-spring meeting with a win in Saturday’s $201,380 San Marcos Stakes at Santa Anita, his first career win at 1 1/4 miles.

The 5-year-old is likely to try a new distance when he attempts to stretch his winning streak to three races in the $200,000 San Luis Rey Stakes at 1 1/2 miles on turf on March 13. Flamboyant was sixth in the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf last August, the longest start of his 19-race career.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The $500,690 San Antonio Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday was as much a prep for the $10 million Dubai World Cup in the United Arab Emirates on March 26 as it was a prep for the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 12.

Hoppertunity and Donworth, who finished first and third, are candidates for the Dubai World Cup, their trainers said. Imperative, beaten a nose by Hoppertunity after a troubled trip, will run in the Big Cap, trainer Richard Baltas said.