Turf Horses, Edgeway Head Jan. 2 Stakes at Santa Anita

Initially scheduled for New Year's Eve at Santa Anita Park, two $100,000 grass races, the Eddie Logan Stakes and Blue Norther Stakes, now contribute to a three-stakes program Jan. 2.

Also on the Sunday program is the $75,000 Kalookan Queen Stakes, which drew a field of only five to sprint 6 1/2 furlongs on dirt, though the short cast includes Hronis Racing's Edgeway , runner-up in the Breeder's Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1) and HRH Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Saud's graded stakes winner Merneith .

In contrast to mid-week rainy weather in Southern California, which resulted in the postponement of the two stakes and the Robert Frankel Stakes to Jan. 1, dry weather is forecast Sunday and in the two days preceding it.

The Eddie Logan drew 10 newly turned 3-year-old males, while the Blue Norther attracted seven 3-year-old fillies. Both races are at a mile.

Barsabas , second in the Nov. 28 Cecil B. DeMille Stakes (G3T) at Del Mar; Boise , a minor stakes winner on synthetic Dec. 4 at Golden Gate Fields; and Cabo Spirit , a close third in the DeMille; and Handy Dandy , a recent one-mile maiden winner, are some of the top prospects in the Eddie Logan.

Trained by Ryan Hanson, Barsabas was dismissed at 49-1 in the one-mile DeMille but showed he belonged to earn the runner-up prize, just holding off show finisher Cabo Spirit. Owned by Christopher Drakos and Ryan Hanson, Barsabas is a Kentucky-bred gelding by Tale of the Cat  who has two wins from seven starts.

He will race two turns for the second time and be ridden for the fourth time in a row by Tyler Baze.

Flavien Prat, meanwhile, gets the mount on the Jonathan Wong-Trained Boise, who captured the Dec. 4 Gold Rush Stakes on Tapeta at Golden Gate for owners Jason Hall, Scott Herbertson, and Sheldon Steinmetz.

In the Blue Norther, trainer Phil D'Amato, who has worked wonders with European imports running on grass over the past several years, holds a solid two-card hand with Helens Well  and a new face, Bellabel .

Fourth seven furlongs on turf in her lone Irish six starts back on May 31, Helens Well rallied impressively from off the pace to take her stateside debut, turf maiden race at Del Mar Aug. 15. Subsequently campaigned in a series of four one-mile turf stakes, she's given a good account of herself, but she's been winless since the maiden score.

Most recently fourth, beaten three-quarters of a length as the 2-1 favorite in the 11-horse, Jimmy Durante Stakes (G3T) Nov. 27, Helens Well will be ridden back by Umberto Rispoli.

Owned by Benowitz Family Trust, CYBT, Madaket Stables, Michael Nentwig, and Ray Pagano, Helens Well is the leading money earner in the field with $118,976 from an overall mark of 1-2-0 in six starts.

A winner versus 17 rivals in her native Ireland in her fifth start, including some winners and males, Irish-bred Bellabel looms large as she makes her U.S. debut. Owned by It's All About the Girls, Bellabel will get the services of Flavien Prat.

Quite likely the speed of the race is the Wong-trained Mimajoon . The Scott Herbertson-owned filly blasted off at a gate to wire maiden score going five furlongs over a yielding turf at Golden Gate  Nov. 13. She followed that up with another front-running win, a 1 1/4-length tally in the Golden Gate Debutante Stakes going six furlongs on synthetic Tapeta Nov. 26. Kyle Frey rides.