A Louisiana-bred colt by Aurelius Maximus brought $95,000 on Tuesday to top the Texas summer yearling sale at Lone Star Park.

Terry Stephens purchased the unnamed April foal from the consignment of Scott Mallory, agent. The colt is from the stakes-placed mare Too Much to Bear.

Other top sellers were an Arkansas-bred filly by Yaupon who brought $87,000 from OCL and a Louisiana-bred filly by Drain the Clock who brought $82,000 from Patricia’s Hope.

Mister Omaha is scheduled to make his next start in the $250,000 Super Derby on Sept. 6 at Louisiana Downs, according to his trainer, Joe Offolter. Entries for the 1 1/8-mile race will be taken Saturday.

Mister Omaha is one of the top 3-year-olds based at Remington Park. He has been working over the Oklahoma City strip since finishing third to Magnitude in the Iowa Derby at Prairie Meadows.

“I thought he ran good last time,” Offolter said. “We just hooked a bear.”

The distance of Friday night’s $50,000 colts and geldings division of the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap at Remington Park is a question mark for 122-pound highweight Colonel Yorke and the capable Joe Offolter trainees Night Passage and Cajun Stoops.

The horses will all start as top betting choices, but none of them have won at the seven-furlong distance of the race, which is restricted to 3-year-olds by eligible stallions. The card also includes the $50,000 fillies division of the Oklahoma Stallion Handicap, led by Eireann.

When trainer Laura Cazares claimed Hot Cargo for $25,000 in July, she intended to run her back at the same level at Gulfstream Park. After the 5-year-old mare showed improvement in Cazares’s barn at Palm Meadows, however, the trainer wasn’t ready to risk parting ways with her just yet at the same price.

“Since I’ve had her in my barn, I feel like she’s improved off that last race she gave,” Cazares said. “I figured I would give her an opportunity to step up and maybe hang around in my barn a little longer.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Any discussion regarding Friday’s $150,000 Bernard Baruch Stakes at Saratoga must begin with three-time Grade 1 winner Program Trading, who returns from a near 15-month layoff to face five seemingly outclassed rivals going 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It isn’t often a horse who won a Grade 1 stakes in June shows up in a listed stakes in August. Such is the case, however, with Dynamic Pricing, who two months ago won the Grade 1 Just a Game here but two starts later is entered to run in Friday’s $150,000 Perfect Sting Stakes going a mile at Saratoga.

The hard-knocking Ohio-bred filly Parlay turned in another fine effort against males last time out, finishing third behind Ronnis Second Wind and Just Like Rambo in the Horizon Stakes. Their paths diverge Friday, as Parlay goes back to turf to face her own gender and the two geldings face older runners in the co-features at Belterra Park.

Not accounting for border snafus, it takes three hours and change to get from Hastings to Emerald Downs when traffic’s moving smoothly. Given the close proximity, relatively comparable class of races, and similar meet dates, it would seem to make a ton of sense for Thoroughbreds to be whipping to and fro in trailers along the Pacific Northwest’s Interstate 5 corridor – but that hasn’t been the case this year.

DEL MAR, Calif. – An old mare is learning a new trick this season in California, and it might produce an overdue victory in the featured seventh race Friday at Del Mar.

Uncorked, a 6-year-old who previously was a turf router, has become a turf sprinter. Based on two runner-up finishes in stakes since shortening up, Uncorked should be tough dropping into an allowance at five furlongs on turf.