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Drill, the winner of two graded stakes for sprinters but winless in four races around two turns, is bound for the $750,000 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 14, trainer Bob Baffert said on Wednesday.

Bodemeister has replaced Fed Biz on trainer Bob Baffert's team for Saturday's $300,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita, a race that will clarify the Hall of Famer's approach to the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 7.

Weemissfrankie will face the smallest field of her career when she starts as a heavy favorite in Saturday's $250,000 Hollywood Starlet Stakes, the last Grade 1 race of the year for 2-year-old fillies.

Smiling Tiger and Unzip Me, California-based sprinters who finished third in Breeders' Cup races at Churchill Downs in 2010, will not be making return engagements for Breeders' Cup races in Kentucky on Nov. 5, their respective trainers said.

Campanologist won the fourth Group 1 race of his career, and second in as many races, in Sunday's Gran Premier Jockey Club Italiano at San Siro Racecourse in Italy.

Aventura, who missed the Japanese spring classics for fillies because of a leg injury, won her third consecutive race since her return to racing in Sunday's Group 1 Shuka Sho at Kyoto Racecourse, the final leg of the Japanese Triple Crown for fillies.

Last weekend, trainer Bob Baffert said Coil would not start in the BC Classic over 1 1/4 miles at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5 after a third-place finish to stablemate Game On Dude and Awesome Gem in the $250,000 Goodwood Stakes at Santa Anita.

Nahrain remained unbeaten after four races, and earned a fees-paid berth to the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf next month, with a nose victory in the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp Racecourse in Paris on Sunday.

Twirling Candy, one of the top older horses in California this year, will make his next start in a Breeders' Cup race at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5 after missing training earlier this month because of a bruised foot, trainer John Sadler said on Friday.

So You Think will be a heavy favorite to win yet another race at that level in Saturday's Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown Racecourse in Ireland.

The closing day of the Del Mar meeting next Wednesday is fast approaching, and the looming date keeps jockey Joe Talamo from peeking at the jockey standings.

Already proven on turf, Acclamation added California's richest race for older horses to his list of accomplishments with a front-running win in Sunday's $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar.

The race strategy for Celtic New Year in Sunday's $200,000 Del Mar Handicap was to try to lead throughout the turf marathon over 1 3/8 miles on turf.

Mizdirection's front-running win in Friday's $90,285 Sandy Blue Handicap at Del Mar was a milestone first stakes win for the filly and one of her co-owners.

Cambina's determination has impressed trainer Jeff Bonde this year, and is why he speaks highly of her chances for a fifth career stakes win in Saturday's $250,000 Del Mar Oaks.

On opposite sides of the nation Wednesday, Blind Luck and Havre de Grace had workouts as their owners and trainers contemplate options.