Chuckanut Bay is a tepid favorite among a six-pack of runners who will go a mile and 70 yards in Saturday’s allowance feature at Emerald Downs.

In his only prior two-turn race on dirt, Chuckanut Bay finished second in the Gottstein Futurity. The Jorge Rosales trainee exits a six-furlong win at the $25,000 claiming level, gets the leading rider, and boasts the top last-out Beyer Speed Figure.

From France to California to Florida with a sortie to Barbados, the 6-year-old gelding Cash Equity could find himself favored in the third race Friday at Churchill Downs.

The Kentucky phase of Cash Equity’s world tour began in May. Saffie Joseph Jr. trains Cash Equity for Ken Ramsey, who claimed the gelding last November in California for $80,000.

Lone Star Park leading jockey Harry Hernandez will return to riding Wednesday after receiving a doctor’s clearance, agent Cody Autrey said. Hernandez had been sidelined with a collapsed lung and four cracked ribs in a spill June 14. At the time, it was expected he would miss the remainder of the meet, which ends July 14.

However, Hernandez said on Monday he was not having any significant or traditional pain associated with injured ribs and wanted to move up his next doctor’s appointment that was for early July. He received clearance to ride on Tuesday.

Jockey Cindy Murphy had retired from race riding late last year, but the promising group of 2-year-olds in training by her husband, Travis Murphy, led to her return to the saddle earlier this month at Prairie Meadows.

Cindy Murphy said her husband has a 26-horse stable racing at Prairie Meadows, with about a dozen of those runners 2-year-olds. They are by such sires as Audible, Brody’s Cause, Constitution, Instagrand, Mo Town, and Thousand Words. Maverama, a colt by Cairo Prince, runs in the fourth on Friday.

The $75,000 Cincinnatian Stakes for Ohio-accredited 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles on the turf at Belterra Park on Friday appears to be a wide-open affair. The race has drawn 10 entrants, none of whom have ever raced on turf; only a handful have raced at a mile or longer. With a lineup such as this, pedigree clues can provide valuable handicapping intel.

The Southern California-based jockey Umberto Rispoli will begin a stretch of travel on Friday night, when he arrives in Texas to ride three stakes on Saturday’s card at Lone Star Park.

The track is putting on its annual Texas Turf Festival, and there are a total of four stakes worth $625,000. Rispoli rides What Say Thee in the $250,000 Texas Turf Classic, Stir Crazy in the $125,000 Wasted Tears, and Itzel in the $125,000 Chicken Fried Stakes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The last time Spooky Lady went from a sprint to a route she won a first-level New York-bred allowance at odds of 10-1. On Friday, Spooky Lady makes a similar stretch-out move and looms a significantly shorter price in a second-level statebred allowance that serves as the feature on Aqueduct’s nine-race card.

The one-mile race, scheduled as race 3 over the inner turf course, drew only a field of six for the turf, plus two main-track-only entrants.

Trainer Fernando Abreu is currently in New York, with plans to run several horses at Aqueduct and Monmouth Park over the weekend. But first, the primarily South Florida-based trainer will be the center of attention back at his home base of Gulfstream Park, where he’ll send out two of the leading contenders, Belleshazza and Palace Flirt, in Friday’s $48,000 allowance/optional-claiming feature carded for Florida-bred fillies and mares at a mile and 70 yards over the Tapeta track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Silent Sky, who had a productive spring on the Tapeta at Woodbine, should be favored in Friday’s headliner going 1 1/16 miles on the inner turf for nonwinners-of-three Ontario-sired allowance types and $40,000 claimers.

Nan Elizabeth will try to get back on the winning track when facing a speed-laden field in Friday’s $25,000 claiming feature over 6 1/2 furlongs at Emerald Downs.

Nan Elizabeth, owned by Luciano Gabriel and Hon Cheung Kum, was a four-time winner at Emerald Downs in 2023. She has been troubled by poor starts and paceless contests so far this year. The 6-year-old daughter of Flat Out lands in a race filled with pace possibilities on Friday. Luciano Gabriel trains Nan Elizabeth and Silvio Amador is named to ride.