Awesome Baby, Stonetastic and Taris, three leading contenders for the $300,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita next Friday, worked at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Awesome Baby, unraced since winning the Sunland Park Oaks in New Mexico in March, worked five furlongs in 58.80 seconds. Trained by Bob Baffert for Kaleem Shah, Awesome Baby won two stakes at the 2013-14 Santa Anita winter-spring meeting – the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes over 6 1/2 furlongs in January, and the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes over 1 1/16 miles in March.

Beholder, the two-time champion who missed the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Oct. 31 because of illness, has resumed training for a 2015 season.

Owned by B. Wayne Hughes, Beholder was briefly at trainer Richard Mandella’s stable at Santa Anita on Friday and early Saturday, long enough to undergo precautionary X-rays on her lungs. Mandella said on Saturday that the X-rays were “perfect.”

Saturday morning, Beholder was sent to Julie Adair-Stack’s farm in Chino, Calif., where she will undergo preliminary training for a few weeks before rejoining Mandella’s stable at Santa Anita.

Texas Red, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, worked a half-mile in 51.40 seconds at Santa Anita on Saturday, his first major exercise since a return to serious training earlier this month.

Trained by Keith Desormeaux, Texas Red will be based in Southern California this winter. Desormeaux has mentioned the $200,000 San Vicente Stakes for 3-year-olds over seven furlongs at Santa Anita on Feb. 1 as a potential comeback race.

Desormeaux said he was not expecting a quick workout from Texas Red on Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Home Run Kitten provided one of the highlights of 2014 for trainer David Hofmans when the 3-year-old scored a dramatic come-from-behind win in the Grade 3 Eddie D Stakes on the Santa Anita hillside turf course in September.

When Home Run Kitten runs in the $200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile on turf on Dec. 26, Hofmans is hoping the colt can provide a fast start to the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting for his stable.

“Hopefully, we’ll have a better 2015 than 2014,” Hofmans said. “I’ve rested horses and we’re coming in fresh.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bayern, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita Park on Nov. 1, zoomed a half-mile in 46.20 seconds when working at Santa Anita on Friday.

The workout under jockey Martin Garcia was only the second for Bayern since he returned to serious training after a break in November. The time of the exercise caught trainer Bob Baffert by surprise.

“Whoa!” Baffert said after glancing at his stopwatch.

Jockey Forest Boyce, who made a last-minute decision to ride this season at Fair Grounds instead of staying home in Maryland to ride at Laurel, said she’s enjoying the track and the city.

“It’s real nice,” Boyce said. “Everyone’s been really helpful. … It was nice to be able to go somewhere, try something new.”

Forever Unbridled, who defeated 2-year-old maiden fillies at a mile and 70 yards by 2 1/4 lengths Dec. 12 in her second start, will race next in the Silverbulletday, trainer Dallas Stewart said.

“It looks good,” Stewart said. “Hopefully, we’ll take the same path as her sister.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill Downs Inc. announced Friday that Travis Stone has been hired as the new race-caller at its flagship track, replacing Larry Collmus, who resigned after just one year to work primarily at the New York Racing Association.

Stone, 30, becomes the eighth caller in track history. A native of Schroon Lake, N.Y., Stone began calling races full time at Louisiana Downs in 2006, and moved this summer to call at Monmouth Park before most recently moving into a part-time position with NYRA.

Trainer Shug McGaughey has decided to tweak the original itinerary he set out for Honor Code when the horse first arrived in south Florida. Instead of launching his 2015 campaign in the one-mile Hal’s Hope on Jan. 10 as a prep for the Grade 1 Donn Handicap, Honor Code will now start just once at the meet, in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap on March 7.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The Kentucky Derby dreams of Mr. Jordan and his connections were dashed earlier this week after the undefeated 2-year-old injured a check ligament during a workout at Gulfstream Park West.

Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. said Mr. Jordan likely sustained the injury while pulling up after breezing an easy half-mile in 48 seconds on Tuesday. The work was the first for Mr. Jordan since his impressive 4 1/2-length victory going a mile in the Smooth Air Stakes on Nov. 29.