Speedway Stables’ Cavalieri didn’t make it to the races until last August, but the four-year-old has climbed the class ladder in leaps and bounds.

On a stakes-packed Saturday at Santa Anita, Locked impressed with an 8 1/2-length demolition of the historic Santa Anita H. (G1).

A pair of scratches reduced Sunday’s Las Virgenes (G3) at Santa Anita to a three-horse field, and 1-5 favorite Tenma had no difficulty dominating the one-mile Road to the Kentucky Oaks qualifier.

Unraced since his victory in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1), last year’s divisional champion Citizen Bull picked up right where he left off in Saturday’s Robert B. Lewis (G3) at Santa Anita.

A well-timed rally carried 17-10 favorite Look Forward to a tenacious victory in Sunday’s $101,500 Santa Ynez S. at Santa Anita.

Barnes was a talking horse before his debut victory, and the $3.2 million yearling purchase raised the decibel level with a spectacular display in Saturday’s San Vicente (G2).

An upset appeared to be brewing in Saturday’s Joe Hernandez (G2) when the 12.90-1 Sumter kicked away from the 9-10 Motorious down the Santa Anita stretch.

Flavien Prat has made it a habit to break records in 2024, and the jockey turned in his latest rewrite of history during Thursday’s opening-day festivities at Santa Anita.

Lael Stables’ She Feels Pretty made it 2-for-2 in blinkers with another demolition job in Thursday’s American Oaks (G1) at Santa Anita.

Odds-on favorite Johannes added one final laurel to his nearly-flawless 2024 campaign in Thursday’s San Gabriel (G2) at Santa Anita.

Last seen missing by a neck in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint (G1), Motorious looms as the class of the field in Saturday’s Joe Hernandez (G2) at Santa Anita.