The two runaway leaders kept on running the second time through the stretch in the $200,000 Santa Ana Stakes (G2T), but maybe the smallest horse on the grounds at Santa Anita Park was just beginning to wind up.

Trainer Peter Miller was fined $2,500 and suspended seven days by the CHRB’s board of stewards at Santa Anita Park March 18 for an incident that involved “derogatory words about a licensee’s unborn baby” Sept. 11 at San Luis Rey Training Center.

A promising 2-year-old filly over the summer in Southern California, Rick and Sharon Waller’s homebred Spectator signaled her promise has extended to her 3-year-old campaign March 18, with a game victory in a second-level optional-claiming allowance.

Ned Bonnie, a leading attorney at Frost Brown Todd attorneys in Louisville and a longtime, vocal Kentucky racing commissioner, died March 17 in Louisville, Ky., according to family and friends. He was 88.

Unbeaten 3-year-old Exclamation Point returned to the work tab March 17, breezing an easy half-mile in :49 4/5 over a fast track just after the renovation break for trainer Brad Cox.

Grade 1 winner Big Macher, who was retired from racing during the summer of 2017, showed up on the Turf Paradise work tab March 17, but his owner said March 18 the 8-year-old Beau Genius gelding likely won’t be returning to racing.

The “most likely and most logical spot” for Robert and Lawana Low’s Magnum Moon is the $1 million Arkansas Derby (G1) April 14 at Oaklawn Park, trainer Todd Pletcher said following the unbeaten colt’s impressive victory in the Rebel Stakes (G2).

Ping Hai Star (NZ) blazed an unusual trail to a rather dominating victory in the March 18 BMW Hong Kong Derby (G1).

Blended Citizen rallied up the rail to best Pony Up by a neck in the March 17 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway Park.

Red Baron’s Barn and Rancho Temescal’s River Boyne likes the Santa Anita Park turf course so much, he can’t seem to lose.

Magnum Moon remained unbeaten in three starts when he drew off from grade 1-placed Solomini March 17 to score a 3 1/2-length victory in the $900,000 Rebel Stakes (G2) at Oaklawn Park.

Running for Vince Campanella and Nation’s Racing Stable, the 5-year-old Kitalpha mare won her second graded stakes in a row, after taking the Feb. 19 Royal Delta Stakes (G3) at Gulfstream Park.

The draw of a grade 1 was too much for trainer Phil D’Amato to pass up March 17 in the $400,000 Santa Margarita Stakes (G1), and the gamble paid off.

Blended Citizen rallied up the rail to best Pony Up by a neck in the March 17 Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) at Turfway Park.

A stumble at the start and heavy traffic late did nothing to deter Ivy Bell March 17 at Gulfstream Park, as the Archarcharch mare overcame with a late-closing victory in the $200,000 Inside Information Stakes (G2).