ARCADIA, Calif. – The pick six paid $4,306 at Santa Anita on Friday, a day when bettors poured nearly $1 million into the pool.

The pick six began with a carryover of $118,415 from Thursday’s opening day. Bettors added $929,679 to the pool Friday.

The winners of Friday’s pick six races were Cool Samurai ($5.80), Macias ($14.40), Velvet Mesquite ($7.60), Chitu ($3.40), Kathleen Rose ($3), and Papa’s Paisley ($9.80).

The last four winners were favored.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - P.J. Campo, recently appointed vice president of racing at Gulfstream Park, said he plans to put up a 1 1/2-mile open allowance race for fillies and mares on turf for Thursday. The conditions of the race will mirror those of the Grade 3 La Prevoyante, which was scheduled to be run at Calder last Saturday, but canceled due to lack of entries.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shakin It Up will be pointed to sprints in coming months after winning the biggest race of his career in Thursday’s $301,500 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita.

“I think we’ll keep him at one turn,” trainer Bob Baffert said Friday. “I think he could probably get a mile.”

The stakes schedule for sprinters in coming months of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting includes the $200,000 Palos Verdes Stakes over six furlongs Feb. 2 and the $250,000 San Carlos Stakes over seven furlongs March 8.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Jose De La Torre, one of the nation’s leading Quarter Horse trainers, said he has been told by Los Alamitos officials that he must vacate the track’s backstretch by Tuesday. Two of his horses tested positive for clenbuterol in post-race tests at Los Alamitos in September and October.

De La Torre won two major stakes at Los Alamitos in December – the $750,000 Champion of Champions with Last to Fire on Dec. 14, and the $1,989,525 Los Alamitos Two Million Futurity with Foose Cash Sr. on Dec. 15.

NEW ORLEANS – Golden Soul arrived at Fair Grounds last week without fanfare.

Who knows how he would have been greeted if he had run a length faster in the Kentucky Derby?

“Orb ran the race of his life to beat us, and [Golden Soul] ran the race of his life,” said Dallas Stewart, who trains Golden Soul. “We’re very proud of our horse.”

At Turfway Park, the holiday meet ends Tuesday and will be followed the next afternoon with opening day of the three-month winter-spring meet. Through Jan. 5, there will be just one dark day since racing resumed Thursday following the short Christmas break, and that is the coming Thursday (Jan. 2).

Trainer Lynn Whiting will waste little time in getting some immediate action for his main client, Charles Cella, at the upcoming meet at Oaklawn Park.

Whiting, who makes his permanent home in Louisville, Ky., was busy this weekend transitioning his stable from Churchill Downs to his longtime winter base at Oaklawn, where a 57-day meet starts Jan. 10.

There’s no stakes action, but there’s a graded stakes winner, Solitary Ranger, set to start on the 11-race Saturday card at Fair Grounds.

Solitary Ranger, winner of the Grade 3 Arlington-Washington Futurity in September, is one of seven 2-year-olds entered in race 5, a first-level allowance also open to $50,000 claimers and carded for about 5 1/2 furlongs on grass. Other than running through fields and paddocks, Solitary Ranger has never been on turf, but his connections – trainer Wayne Catalano and owner Susan Moulton – long have considered Solitary Ranger for the surface.