DEL MAR, Calif. – Two-year-olds racing seven furlongs are the upcoming focus at Del Mar, Nov. 16-17, with the $100,000 Desi Arnaz Stakes for fillies on Nov. 16, and the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes on Nov. 17.

DEL MAR, Calif – Sugar Fish, a Grade 2 winner who was one of the surprise 3-year-old fillies in California this season, will cut back to one turn for her final start of the year following a fifth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Trainer Jeff Mullins said Sugar Fish will target the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, a seven-furlong stakes for 3-year-old fillies traditionally run Dec. 26, opening day of the Santa Anita winter meet.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Tamara will use an allowance sprint Friday at Del May to prep for the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes, a seven-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies traditionally run Dec. 26, opening day of Santa Anita winter. Tamara, runaway winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante in 2023 before finishing seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies and emerging with a splint injury, is scheduled for her first start in more than a year on Friday.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The runaway win by Big City Lights in the $98,000 Cary Grant Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar was the 77th Del Mar stakes win for trainer Richard Mandella, tying him for third with Ron McAnally. Bob Baffert has the most Del Mar stakes wins with 178, with John Sadler trailing him in second with 86.

Mandella could add to his total in the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Stakes on Nov. 30. Sumter and Seal Team, first and fifth last out in the Lure Stakes, a restricted turf mile at Santa Anita, are targeting the 1 1/16-mile Seabiscuit.

Ellen Jay, who has gone 3 for 3 on turf including a victory in the Glen Cove Stakes at Aqueduct on Oct. 18, is expected to be heading back to the dirt for her next start.

The daughter of Constitution and the first foal out of the champion female sprinter Covfefe, Ellen Jay is targeting the $100,000 Safely Kept Stakes at Laurel on Nov. 30, according to Dustin Dugas, assistant trainer to Brad Cox.

In 37 years of training horses, Linda Rice has never started a horse at Fair Grounds in New Orleans.

That’s about to change.

Rice confirmed Sunday that she plans to open up a small stable at Fair Grounds at the 2024-25 meet that begins on Nov. 22. Rice said the stable, numbering six or so horses, will be comprised mostly of turf horses that she wasn’t ready to turn out for the winter.

“Rather than shut them down, I thought we’d find a spot to go with them, experiment, and see how it goes,” Rice said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Marty Drexler has a chance to sweep the trifecta in Thursday’s featured sixth race at Woodbine with Priceless Will, Speedy Hans, and Pine Knoll. Nine others were entered in the first-level allowance with a $32,000 claiming option, a 6 1/2-furlong Tapeta sprint with a base purse of $73,800, as Woodbine looks to resume racing after canceling two races on Saturday and the entire Sunday card.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The 2-year-old filly With the Angels, who has dominated New York-breds in three starts so far this year, is likely to remain with her own kind in Sunday’s $100,000 Key Cents Stakes for statebred juvenile fillies going six furlongs at Aqueduct.

Trainer Linda Rice had the option of waiting for the Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle going 1 1/8 miles here on Dec. 7, but wasn’t satisfied enough with the filly’s 3 1/4-length victory in the one-mile Maid of the Mist Stakes on Oct. 27 to stretch With the Angels out in distance at this time.

Battle-seasoned Grade 3 winner Lemon Muffin is an obvious standout on accomplishment in the field for Wednesday’s nominal feature at Churchill Downs, a $127,000 allowance race for fillies and mare who have never won a race other-than or who have never won two races. However, she’s not a standout on speed figures, making this bulky field – there are 12 in the main body, plus two also-eligibles on the program – a relatively wide-open affair as it begins this racing week.

Churchill enters the week with a $16,966 carryover in the pick six jackpot.

Monday’s $45,000 Shesastonecoldfox Stakes at Finger Lakes, a six-furlong dash for 2-year-old fillies, is named for a prominent Finger Lakes-based filly who ripped through, among other stakes, the New York Breeders’ Futurity against colts in a stellar juvenile campaign.