NEW ORLEANS – Sunday’s feature at Fair Grounds, a first-level turf allowance at about a mile, drew a full field of 14 older fillies and mares plus an also-eligible. Handicappers will be straining to make sense of this wide-open competition, the eighth race on a nine-race card.

ARCADIA, Calif. – First post for Sunday’s eight-race program at Santa Anita is 11 a.m. Pacific to allow the program to be completed before the Super Bowl.

The program is scheduled to end at approximately 2:40 p.m. Super Bowl kickoff is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. Pacific.

Because of the earlier post time, the track has suspended a promotion that guarantees the pick six pool will reach $150,000 and that the late pick four will reach $500,000. The promotions will resume Feb. 13.

NEW ORLEANS – As the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 20 approaches, Harold Joseph said he’ll be thinking about the champion for whom the final Louisiana Derby prep is named.

That’s only natural. In 1988, when Risen Star won the Preakness and Belmont Stakes, Joseph was his groom.

“You know what I’m proud of?” Joseph said. “That they even gave me a chance to be around that horse.”

Joseph, 62, said it doesn’t take much impetus to spark his sweet memories of those days and that horse.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Grade 1 winner Force the Pass was scheduled to have his second work on the comeback trail Saturday at Palm Meadows as trainer Alan Goldberg has begun plotting a return for the 4-year-old colt.

Force the Pass won the Grade 1 Belmont Derby last July 4 before finishing third in his two subsequent starts. All eight of his career starts came in a seven-month period between February and September and netted more than $1.1 million for his owner and breeder, the Colts Neck Stables LLC of Richard Santulli.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will be matching owners’ contributions to the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance in 2016, NYRA announced on Thursday.

Owners on this circuit in 2015 contributed $5 per start to the TAA, a nonprofit organization that inspects and awards grants to approved aftercare organizations to retire, retrain, and find new homes for Thoroughbreds.

In 2015, there were 17,276 starters on the NYRA circuit, resulting in $86,380 in contributions to the TAA.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Upon further review, jockey Dylan Davis might not have a torn labrum after all and could return to the saddle much sooner than originally thought.

A second MRI performed on Davis’s shoulder did not reveal a tear, according to his agent, Nick Soulis. Instead, Davis just has a sore shoulder and will undergo two weeks of physical therapy. It is possible that he could return by mid-to-late February.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Saythreehailmary’s will seek her third consecutive stakes victory when she heads a field of six New York-bred fillies and mares entered in Sunday’s $100,000 Biogio’s Rose Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

Saythreehailmary’s, the 121-pound co-highweight, drew post 2. She is coming off wins in the Bay Ridge for New York-breds here in December and the open Ladies Handicap here in January.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Green Gratto may have lost a race, but if you listen to his connections, he hasn’t lost any energy.

That’s why owner and trainer Gaston Grant is taking a serious look at wheeling Green Gratto back in the Grade 3, $250,000 General George Handicap at Laurel Park on Feb. 15.

Green Gratto finished third in the Grade 3 Toboggan last Saturday, setting the pace before being run down by Sassicaia and Mewannarose. Green Gratto was defeated by only three-quarters of a length.

Dolphus, who was scratched at the gate of the Lecomte after acting up and briefly getting loose, returned to action Sunday with a three-quarter-length win in a first-level, two-turn allowance at Fair Grounds. Dolphus closed into a slow pace and beat a seemingly decent Larry Jones-trained colt named Jensen. The race produced a 77 Beyer, but there was no way the final time was going to be fast after a slow half-mile split.

Trainer Dallas Stewart said he plans to train Forever Unbridled straight into the April 15 Apple Blossom at Oaklawn Park after the improving 4-year-old filly won her second straight Grade 3 race in the $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic last Saturday night at Sam Houston.

Rallying into a modest pace, Forever Unbridled finished with good energy to overtake eventual third-place finisher Cassatt while posting a 1 3/4-length score over runner-up Cali Star. She earned a 93 Beyer Speed Figure, but Stewart believes Forever Unbridled still is scratching the surface of her ability.