ARCADIA, Calif. – Sunday Rules will start in the $150,000 Spring Fever Stakes for California-bred fillies and mares May 23 after extending her unbeaten streak to four races in an optional claimer Thursday.

Ridden by Tyler Baze, Sunday Rules ($2.80) led throughout the 6 1/2-furlong race to win by 2 1/2 lengths over Wasted at Midnight in 1:15.24. Scherzinger, winner of the Grade 2 Santa Monica Stakes in 2014, finished third in her first start of the year.

Sunday Rules earned a career-best 90 Beyer Speed Figure.

ARCADIA, Calif. – She’s a Classic became the first 2-year-old winner of the year in Southern California with a surprising performance in Thursday’s third race.

Ridden by Mario Gutierrez, She’s a Classic ($50.40) led throughout a maiden race for California-bred fillies at 4 1/2 furlongs, winning by four lengths in 52.53 seconds.

She’s a Classic, trained by Edward Freeman, is by Square Eddie and is owned by breeders Paul and Zillah Reddam. She’s a Classic could return in the $125,000 Landaluce Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at 5 1/2 furlongs June 21.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The showdown between the upstart and the veteran looms in the $300,000 Vanity Stakes at Santa Anita on May 9.

Warren’s Veneda, unbeaten in three stakes this year, will face the two-time champion Beholder in the Grade 1 Vanity Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on dirt. They are unlikely to have many rivals.

On Thursday, Warren’s Veneda had her final workout for the Vanity, going five furlongs in 59.20 seconds, the third fastest of 22 recorded works at the distance.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Jockey Marklee Buchanan made a strong impression in his first weekend of riding at Hastings. He won with four of his nine mounts, and none of his wins came aboard a favorite. The shortest-priced horse he won with was Lornefivehundred, who paid $7.50 for his win over Bearrock N Roll in a $16,000 claiming race last Saturday.

Buchanan is originally from Jamaica and has been riding in Ontario since 2011.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Dino Condilenios was impressed enough with Modern’s gutsy win in the $50,000 George Royal on April 26 to consider pointing him to the Grade 3, $200,000 Longacres Mile on Aug. 16 at Emerald Downs.

Eighty Nine Red got his season off to a winning start for the second year in a row April 18 at Woodbine  in the prep for the $125,000 New Providence Stakes, defeating 2013 Canadian champion male sprinter Phil’s Dream in the process, and he will make his next start in the New Providence on May 10, trainer Mike De Paulo said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Fan favorite and 2011 Canadian champion 3-year-old male Pender Harbour is getting close to making his 2015 debut, trainer Michael De Paulo said.

After a second-place finish in the Grade 3 Valedictory Stakes on closing day of the 2014 season at Woodbine on Dec. 7, the 7-year-old Pender Harbour spent the winter in Florida and started breezing under De Paulo’s watch at Gulfstream Park in March.

CHURCHILL DOWNS

Weather: Clear

Temperature: 52

Track: Fast

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It was another perfect morning for training Thursday at Churchill Downs, where all the Derby activity took place after the renovation break.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas has gotten a good look at Bob Baffert’s one-two punch for the Kentucky Derby. Lukas longshot Mr. Z tangled with both halves of the juggernaut, finishing third, less than a neck behind Dortmund, in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity last December, and third, 8 3/4 lengths behind American Pharoah, in the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby three weeks ago.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Upstart has a few white spots on his dark bay coat, but trainer Rick Violette maintains it’s not skin disease.

Violette says it’s a skin pigmentation that first showed up during the winter at Gulfstream Park. It was clearly evident in the days leading up to the Florida Derby, a race in which he finished second to Materiality.

“He had two or three times as many [spots] earlier this winter,” Violette said.