OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There will be live racing Wednesday, Dec. 10, at Aqueduct, the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday afternoon. That card was added to the schedule to make up for the cancellation of the final eight races on Sunday’s card, when the jockeys refused to ride, citing differences with management.

Following this four-day week, NYRA will race Dec. 10-14 before going on holiday break from Dec. 15-25. Racing will then resume Dec. 26.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Since Sept. 27, trainer Mike Maker has gone 4 for 7 at Aqueduct with horses making their first start after being claimed. Friday, he looks to continue that run when he sends out Systemic Change in a starter allowance that serves as the feature on an eight-race card.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer John Ortiz will keep a string of 10 to 15 horses in New York this winter as he tries to establish a year-round presence here. The early returns are quite good.

Ortiz has won three races from six starts at Aqueduct’s fall meet. The wins have come with New York-breds Doc Sullivan, Moe Eighty Eight, and Braverthanubelieve, all owned by Glenn Lostritto’s Tristar Farm.

Built is back and might not need to be any better than he was in May to win the featured seventh race Friday at Fair Grounds.

Unraced since May 3, Built ran in five stakes, four graded, after clearing the maiden ranks, and his return comes in a second-level allowance. Carded for about 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, the race will likely wind up on a wet main track, with fairly heavy and sustained rain forecast Thursday into Friday.

When the Del Mar autumn meeting ended on Sunday, jockey Juan Hernandez found himself in an unfamiliar position.

Instead of winning the riding title, as he had done at the preceding five summer and autumn meetings at Del Mar, Hernandez finished sixth with nine wins, eight behind leader Umberto Rispoli.

The reboot begins Friday at Los Alamitos, the first day of the track’s two-week meeting that runs through Dec. 14.

Hernandez plans to ride regularly at Los Alamitos, though not have as many mounts as he typically does at Del Mar and Santa Anita.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Tappan Street, sidelined since upsetting Sovereignty in the Grade 1 Florida Derby here March 29, got a step closer to his much anticipated return by breezing five furlongs in 1:03.40 on Monday at Payson Park. The work was his fifth at the training center since his arrival in South Florida in late October.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – There has been ample jockeying in the Woodbine rider ranks throughout the meet, and some more shuffling in the standings appears imminent.

Rafael Hernandez has a 135-133 lead in wins over apprentice Pietro Moran, who led the standings throughout most of the meet until the fall. Both ride a contender in Friday’s sixth race going 1 1/16 miles for $25,000 nonwinners-of-two claimers.