ARCADIA, Calif. – Undefeated stakes winner Sunday Rules has raced sparingly in her career but has been a brilliant winner of each start.

Sunday Rules has won three sprint races by a combined 21 3/4 lengths over the last 20 months, including the Generous Portion Stakes for California-bred 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar in August 2013.

Trainer Phil D’Amato expects that winning streak to continue when Sunday Rules makes her 2015 debut in an optional claimer for fillies and mares going 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita on Thursday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Even after all these years, the sight of trainer Larry Jones galloping a horse arrests the eye.

His long legs extended well below his mount’s barrel thanks to stirrups let down lower than any other exercise rider on the track, Jones, nearly twice the heft of a jockey, cuts a striking figure.

Marcia Stortz is still enjoying the afterglow of her first training victory with Blazing Mojave on April 19. Blazing Mojave was only the second runner she had started. He held off All Magic by a head in a six-furlong, $12,500 maiden claimer.

The 37-year-old former jockey won her first race as a rider with her seventh mount, Gifted Athlete, with a rail-hugging ride in 2003.

Tom Doutrich, the racing secretary for the California Authority of Racing Fairs, has released the first condition book for the 12-day Oak Tree at Pleasanton meet that will be held June 18 through July 5. The meet will include six Thoroughbred stakes and more than $1.7 million in purses and bonuses for trainers.

Mark Reid cut back his stable drastically in the mid-1990s, and in 2000 stopped training completely, switching his focus to the bloodstock side of the industry. At the time, he was the all-time leading trainer at Philadelphia Park and Garden State Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The field for one of the most wide-open renewals of the Kentucky Oaks in recent memory has been set, with California invader Stellar Wind being pegged as a slight program favorite in an oversubscribed lineup.

Churchill Downs linemaker Mike Battaglia has a core of five favorites bunched closely together on the morning line, with Stellar Wind the 7-2 choice over Condo Commando (4-1), I’m a Chatterbox (4-1), Lovely Maria (5-1), and Birdatthewire (6-1) in the 1 1/8-mile filly classic Friday.

It looks like a rematch is in the offing for the Grade 3 All American at Golden Gate Fields on May 25.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said G. G. Ryder and stablemate Summer Hit, who ran one-two in the Grade 3 San Francisco Mile last weekend, will be pointed to the one-mile All American on the main track.

G. G. Ryder ran down Summer Hit late to score his first graded stakes victory. Summer Hit suffered what track announcer Michael Wrona described as an “exasperating loss” in the San Francisco Mile for the third straight year.

LOUISVILLE, KY. – Wayne Catalano is just happy to be here at Churchill Downs – and not in the usual sense that the trainer of a Kentucky Oaks filly feels fortunate.

Catalano, the trainer of Oaks contender Oceanwave, was hospitalized for several weeks last summer in suburban Chicago with a severe bout of influenza and pneumonia. He eventually recovered, but the scare gave him a renewed appreciation for life.

“Makes ya think,” he said Tuesday on the Churchill backside.

LOUISVILLE, KY. – Assistant trainer Norman Casse doesn’t like using the word “mean” to describe strong-willed Derby hopeful Danzig Moon. The colt’s exploits around the barn have been well documented on social media, with various members of the barn staff sharing photos of their “war wounds.” But Casse smiles when discussing the topic.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rosemary Homeister Jr. became part of Kentucky Derby lore 12 years ago when she became just the fifth woman to ride in the race, and now she’s poised to make more Churchill Downs history.

Homeister will ride Include Betty in the $1 million Kentucky Oaks on Friday and become just the third woman ever to ride in both the Derby and Oaks, following Julie Krone and Rosie Napravnik. Homeister has the call on Include Betty in the 141st Oaks at Churchill Downs for owners Brererton Jones and Tim Thornton and trainer Tom Proctor.