OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York jockey colony will go through a transition over the next few months and one who hopes to make an impact is Lane Luzzi, who will plans to ride full-time at Aqueduct’s winter meet.

Luzzi, the son of veteran rider Mike Luzzi, rode in the Mid-Atlantic region this summer, and rode one race Thursday at Aqueduct, finishing second aboard the 9-year-old Hammerin Aamer in a $12,500 claimer.

“I’m getting my feet wet these next few weeks,” Luzzi, 26, said after that race. “The goal is eventually the winter meet.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Kevin Attard certainly has a talented group of 2-year-olds under his care this year. The future Hall of Famer cross-entered Rosa, Tripolina, and Bolt Enoree in the $125,000 Glorious Song Stakes for fillies and the $125,000 Display Stakes on Sunday’s Woodbine card. Both are seven-furlong Tapeta sprints.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Positive Review is the only member of the field in Saturday’s co-featured ninth race at Gulfstream Park, a $52,000 allowance/optional-claiming event for older horses going a mile on the main track, without some sort of stakes experience. Despite that fact, he also may be the one to beat in the second of three consecutive allowance events on an 11-race card that kicks off at 12:50 p.m.

Luna Belle makes her long-awaited return to the races in Saturday’s $100,000 Maryland Million Distaff for statebred or Maryland-sired fillies and mares at seven furlongs.

Widely regarded as the best 3-year-old filly in Maryland in 2022 after reeling off five consecutive stakes victories, Luna Belle finished 11th in her most recent start, the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan, and has been away for 512 days.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Coming off a cross-country trip in which she ran second in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks, Be Your Best returns home seeking her first graded stakes victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Sands Point Stakes for 3-year-old fillies scheduled for 1 1/8 miles on turf at Aqueduct.

Though she also was entered in Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland, Be Your Best will run in the Sands Point, trainer Horacio De Paz said. De Paz said the field at Keeneland came up much tougher than did the Sands Point.

All of racing’s momentum moves toward the Breeders’ Cup at this point in autumn, but there are important stakes races still to be run in October.

Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup

Hard to imagine this race, which in many recent years has come up somewhat soft, would attract a field this deep and this strong. To me, the American fillies, those that have campaigned here all season, are going to struggle to contend. Mission of Joy is due for a bounce-back race at a price, but I can’t see her winning.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Brad Cox had some mixed emotions when he saw the entries for Saturday’s $125,000 Floral Park Stakes at Aqueduct.

Cox wasn’t thrilled with the fact his filly Bubble Rock drew the rail but he was excited not to see Roses for Debra in the six-furlong turf race.

In her last two starts, Bubble Rock has been defeated by Roses for Debra, a filly who is being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 4.

Coastal Mission will be looking for his sixth consecutive win when he makes his three-turn debut in Saturday night’s $300,000 Sam Huff West Virginia Breeders’ Classic at Charles Town.

The 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up is the richest of 10 restricted stakes on the annual West Virginia Breeders’ Classics card. There were 99 horses entered, and purses for the program top $1 million.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Rose Dawson’s career sank like the Titanic after she won her first two starts, including a $200,000 California-bred stakes. She lost her next eight.

“She kind of soured on us last year,” trainer Phil D’Amato acknowledged. “She was good at 2, then tailed off at 3. We freshened her up, and she’s a different filly now. She’s more mature.”

Double Crown, winner of last year’s Grade 2 Kelso Handicap, is the morning-line favorite in Laurel’s $150,000 Maryland Million Classic for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/8 miles.

The Classic headlines a 12-race Saturday program for Maryland-sired or statebred performers that includes eight stakes.

As of Thursday, there is a 94 percent chance of rain.

Double Crown shouldn’t mind a wet track after capturing the Polynesian on good going Sept. 10 at Pimlico. That was Double Crown’s fourth race in 28 days, and first off just a six-day layoff.