Horse Racing News by Jack Shinar

After four consecutive in-the-money stakes efforts, Scarlet Strike should be ready for her picture in the $100,000 Santa Ysabel Stakes Jan. 26 at Santa Anita Park.

After giving Mizdirection quite a tussle earlier this month on the hillside turf course, the speedster Kindle switches to dirt for the $250,000 Santa Monica Stakes Jan. 26 at Santa Anita Park.

More Chocolate, making her first start on dirt for trainer John Sadler, put away pacesetter Willa B Awesome in the stretch and shook clear for her first stakes victory in the $150,000 La Canada Stakes Jan. 20 at Santa Anita Park.

Versatile Comma to the Top, who has produced wins on dirt, synthetic, and turf, as well as going long and sprinting, brings his best form recently into the $150,000 Palos Verdes Stakes Jan. 19.

Favored Csaba ran his stakes winning streak to four and likely stamped his ticket to next month's Donn Handicap with his victory in the $100,000 Hal's Hope Jan. 13 at Gulfstream Park.

Fed Biz, a colt that came with a big price tag and a world of potential, recorded the first graded stakes win of his career with a gate-to-wire triumph in the $151,000 San Fernando Feb. 12 at Santa Anita Park.

Grade 1 winner Jeranimo launches his 7-year-old campaign Jan. 13 on the turf at Santa Anita Park in the $150,000 San Gabriel Stakes, a race he won in 2010 and was second in last year.

In his first race in more than seven years, Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens felt the thrill of being in front heading for the wire. But the exhilaration was short-lived as his mount Jebrica was passed in deep stretch.

Mizdirection, making her first start since defeating males in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, ran down speedy Kindle in the shadow of the wire to register a repeat victory in the Monrovia Stakes over the hillside turf course at Santa Anita Park Jan. 6.

In his final start before he heads off to stud in California, grade I winner Coil outlasted Ultimate Eagle by a short head following a terrific stretch duel in the $150,000 San Pasqual Stakes Jan. 5 at Santa Anita Park.