OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Following a sale and a last-place finish in a stakes at Oaklawn Park nearly six months ago, Law Professor is starting over in familiar territory Friday in a third-level allowance race at Aqueduct.

Law Professor is your prototypical horse-for-course, having won 4 of 6 starts at Aqueduct. His two losses have come in consecutive runnings of the Woodward Stakes. In 2022 he was second to Life Is Good when the race was still a Grade 1 and in 2023 he finished third behind Zandon in the now Grade 2 Woodward.

Keeneland’s featured eighth race Thursday, a high-level turf sprint allowance for older fillies and mares, has nothing on the supporting feature, a two-turn dirt allowance carded as race 7.

Restricted to 3-year-olds, the seventh race, at 1 1/8 miles, is for second-level allowance horses or $125,000 claimers and drew nine entrants, including Society Man, an in-form stakes dropper who already has made four starts at the distance.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Wayne Potts has run in five stakes the last two years. On Saturday, he’ll run in two stakes in about 35 minutes.

In the Grade 3, $175,000 Bold Ruler, Potts will send out Surveillance, who two starts back won the off-the-turf Grade 3 Troy Stakes at Saratoga. In the Grade 3, $250,000 Forty Niner Stakes, Potts has Nelson Avenue, a horse whose last two starts signal him as a live longshot.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – There are two opportunities for 3-year-old fillies to win stakes in their own age group this fall at Aqueduct where they won’t have to face the dominant division leader Thorpedo Anna.

The first of those races is Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes at 1 1/8 miles. The eight-horse field includes three progeny of the stallion Gun Runner – Gun Song, Life Talk, and Headline Numbers – and a half-sister to Gun Runner named Pretty Ana.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The recent maiden race winner Dr Ruben M was pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, which will be run at Del Mar on Nov. 1.

Dr Ruben M needed four races to beat maidens, doing so in a one-mile race at Santa Anita on Oct. 14.

Owned by the Del Mar Group and trained by Doug O’Neill, Dr Ruben M will be a longshot in the BC Juvenile.

“We’ll give it a try,” O’Neill said on Sunday. “We’ll see how everything shakes out and take a shot.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Accuracy, a 15-length winner of a maiden race at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Saturday, will more than likely resurface in an allowance race in coming months, trainer Michael McCarthy said.

Accuracy earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 108 for her win on Saturday, in 1:42.44. The only filly or mare with a higher speed figure this year on dirt is Thorpedo Anna, who was given a 111 for her second-place finish by a head to Fierceness in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes against 3-year-old males at 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga on Aug. 24.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The value of the 3-year-old colt Rothschild may change substantially on Saturday afternoon.

Rothschild, who has won once in seven starts and has placed in three consecutive stakes, is scheduled to start in Saturday’s Grade 2 Twilight Derby at 1 1/8 miles on turf at Santa Anita.

Keeneland begins its final four-day stand on Wednesday with a carryover of $301,896 into the late pick 5, which runs from the fourth race through the eighth race. Three of those races drew overflow casts at the entry box; the other races have fields of 10 and 12 entrants, respectively; and a pair of allowance-level events that serve as the nominal features have some familiar, stakes-seasoned names, making for some interesting puzzles.