Lost Bus pulls off stunner in Santa Monica

Lost Bus, claimed by her present connections for $32,000 at Del Mar two months

ago, turned in a stunning 64-1 upset of the $200,000 Santa Monica (G2) at

Santa Anita on Saturday, outlasting 8-1 chance Finest City by a head in the

seven-furlong test for older fillies and mares.

Charming Kitten flashed his immense stamina once again taking the $100,000 H.

Allen Jerkens at Gulfstream over two miles on the turf. Ken and Sarah

Ramsey's homebred had previously taken the 2014 Belmont Gold Cup over two miles,

and the December 26 W.L. McKnight H. (G3) going 1 1/2 miles.

At Tampa Bay Downs, three-year-olds

Morning Fire and R Girls a Charmer led at every call to take the Pasco and

Gasparilla, both over seven furlongs, and older filly White Clover pulled

off her own wire job in the 1 1/16-mile Wayward Lass.

For the full recap of these stakes, visit the TwinSpires.com blog via the

above links.

In other news on the blog:

Kentucky Derby (G1) hopefuls

Mor Spirit and Exaggerator both worked at Santa Anita on Saturday for

respective starts in the Robert B. Lewis (G2) and San Vicente (G2). Meanwhile at

Fair Grounds, turf star

The Pizza Man turned in a five-furlong work in advance of the San Marcos

(G2) at Santa Anita.

Leandro Tomas of Lima, Peru,

has captured the first ever Latin American qualifier for next week's National

Handicapping Championship (NHC) in Las Vegas.

A strain of the Equine Herpes Virus (EHV)

has caused officials at Sunland Park to halt racing at the New Mexico track for

at least two weeks.

No horses or staff were injured when a hospital/quarantine barn at the Old

Friends Retirement Facility in Georgetown, Kentucky, caught fire.

Storm Flag Flying, the champion juvenile filly of 2002, has died at the age of

16 due to complications from foaling. Upon hearing the news, Ed DeRosa

shared his thoughts on how the filly's performance in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile

Fillies (G1) at Arlington impacted his life.

The Todd Pletcher-trained

Zulu, an impressive allowance winner in the slop at Gulfstream earlier this

month and a Kentucky Derby (G1) prospect, is being aimed at the Fountain of

Youth (G2) over the same track next month.

Kellie Reilly has her latest edition of

"The Dispatch Box," a roundup of foreign racing news and tidbits.