OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Be Your Best, the nose winner of Sunday’s Grade 3 Long Island Stakes at Aqueduct, arrived in South Florida on Wednesday and will be considered for a start in the Grade 2, $500,000 Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf on Jan. 25 at Gulfstream Park, owner/breeder Mike Ryan said Wednesday.

After 12 tries in graded company, Be Your Best finally got her first graded stakes victory, holding off No Show Sammy Jo by a nose in the Long Island. Be Your Best, as a 2-year-old, won the ungraded P.G. Johnson Stakes at Saratoga.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After making a successful return off a layoff over his favorite course here last month, Fluid Situation will try to remain unbeaten over Aqueduct’s turf in Friday’s featured second-level allowance/optional-claiming sprint scheduled for six furlongs.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Todd Pletcher was visiting his troops at the Palm Beach Downs training center earlier this week, which can mean only one thing. The opening of the Gulfstream Championship meeting is just around the corner.

But even before the Championship session opens on Nov. 28, Pletcher figures to make his presence felt on the local front. A case in point is Friday’s $61,000 main event which features the return of his promising 3-year-old Cardinale, who should go postward a short-priced favorite in the allowance event carded at one mile on the main track.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Tamara starts over Friday at Del Mar, and if the well-bred 3-year-old filly is as good as last season, the allowance sprint could be a formality even if it is her first start in a year.

“If she’s anything like last year, she’ll run good,” trainer Richard Mandella said. He believes Tamara is at least as good this year. “I think she is, the way she trains, yes. She’s filled out, stronger than she was.”

Churchill Downs ushers in the weekend with an appealing and competitive Friday card featuring three allowance-level events.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Heading into this week, Sahin Civaci had a commanding 131-105 lead over Rafael Hernandez in the standings and is a slam dunk to win his first Woodbine riding title and Sovereign Award for outstanding jockey.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The last week of turf racing on this circuit commences Thursday at Aqueduct with three grass races on the eight-race program. Unsurprisingly, all three events drew oversubscribed fields and all three grass races are part of the pick six that begins the day with a $51,725 carryover.

First post Thursday is 12:10 p.m., with the first leg of the pick six beginning in race 3 at 1:10 p.m.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The third renewal of the Keeneland November horses of racing age sale will be held Thursday afternoon, with a catalog that should continue to shift until sale time.

The trickle of horses leaving California continues. Graded stakes-placed Justique and Mc Vay have been transferred from California trainer John Shirreffs and are now trained in Kentucky by Cherie DeVaux. Justique and Mc Vay are owned by Lee and Susan Searing’s CRK Stable.

The makeup of the nominal feature on the Thursday card at Churchill Downs, a $134,000 allowance/optional-claiming race at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, will largely depend on the state of the turf course. Churchill was off the turf Sunday with rain throughout Kentucky. The early forecast for Thursday in Louisville shows a 60 percent chance of precipitation.