STICKNEY, Ill. – Dom the Bomb is an Illinois-bred 2-year-old, but the way he has dominated restricted competition while demonstrating somewhat surprising stamina has led his connections to consider placing the horse in more ambitious spots early next year.

CYPRESS, Calif. – No Problem, the winner of the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar in November, was supplemented to Saturday’s $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity for $20,000 when entries were taken Wednesday.

The former maiden claimer will be part of a small field in the Grade 1 race over 1 1/16 miles. The Los Alamitos Futurity has a projected field of five, led by the unbeaten Dortmund, who will make his stakes debut, and Mr. Z, who has finished second in four stakes this year. Other entrants are the Del Mar maiden race winners Bench Warrant and Firing Line.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Social Inclusion, one of the stars of the 2013-14 championship meet at Gulfstream Park, is back in training at Palm Meadows after losing most of the second half of his 3-year-old campaign due to a tendon injury.

Just in time for the holidays, Steve Dunn received a gift that keeps on giving.

Dunn, a trainer since 1991, had his first stakes winner in more than four years when Buster Rose rallied from far back to prevail amid a solid field of turf sprinters in the $110,000 Canterbury Stakes on the Dec. 6 Claiming Crown program at Gulfstream Park in south Florida.

“I’m still getting calls and congratulations,” Dunn, 58, said this week from HighPointe Farm and Training Center in LaGrange, Ky.

“It was very special. The horse really had a big year for us.”

Bayerd and Shotgun Kowboy, who finished a head apart in a thrilling edition of the $250,000 Springboard Mile at Remington Park, have gone in different directions since Sunday’s race, but there is a chance that the pair could meet again next year at 3. Both horses are remaining in the region, according to their trainers.

Springboard Mile winner Bayerd is to be based at Fair Grounds, said Steve Asmussen, while runner-up Shotgun Kowboy is to ship to Oaklawn Park right after Christmas, according to C.R. Trout.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A full field is shaping up for Saturday’s Tropical Park Derby for 3-year-olds, led by Grade 2 winner Wallyanna, Smooth Daddy, and Cabo Cat. Also to be run here Saturday is the Tropical Park Oaks for 3-year-old fillies. Both are $75,000 races at 1 1/16 miles on turf.

Entries for the Tropical Park Derby will be drawn Wednesday and are expected to include Best Plan Yet, Breitling Flyer, Daddy’s Kid, Idiosyncratic, Ironicus, Other Cheek, and Shiva Ryan.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Wesley Ward has been relatively quiet since winning two Breeders’ Cup races at Santa Anita and then serving a 30-day medication suspension. Ward is getting his large stable geared up for the Gulfstream winter meet while also finding time each afternoon to help break 50 yearlings at a nearby farm.

CYPRESS, Calif. – The 3-year-old gelding Johns Journey faces a lengthy recuperation after unseating jockey Fernando Perez and striking the inside rail in an optional claimer at Los Alamitos on Saturday.

Trainer Mike Machowsky said Johns Journey needed many stitches on a stifle that evening, a procedure that took 2 1/2 hours. Machowsky said X-rays showed no further injuries.

“He’ll be pretty sore for a while,” Machowsky said. “When he hit that rail, he was lucky, I think. We’ll need to leave him in the stall, and we can’t walk him. It will take time.”

CYPRESS, Calif. – Acceptance, unbeaten in three starts after winning Sunday’s King Glorious Stakes, is likely to remain in the California-bred division for his first start of 2015.

Co-owner Bud Johnston said after the King Glorious that Acceptance will be pointed for the $250,000 California Cup Derby over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Jan. 24.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Owner John Oxley paid a $20,000 supplemental entry fee to give Pioneerof the West a spot in the gate for Saturday’s $500,000 Los Alamitos Futurity. While the fee represents a gamble for Oxley and trainer Mark Casse, the race will provide an indication of where the colt stands in the division.

Pioneerof the West beat maidens over a mile in his last start, the fourth of his career, at Del Mar on Nov. 20. Casse saw enough from the performance and subsequent workouts to run Pioneerof the West in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Futurity, run over 1 1/16 miles.