ARCADIA, Calif. – Dr. Schivel could win the Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship for the second time in three years Saturday, but he would still have a score to settle with a pair of graded winners who replaced him as the top sprinters in California.

The Chosen Vron and Anarchist, one-two over Dr. Schivel in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby at Del Mar this summer, will train into the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. Their absence from the $200,000 Santa Anita Sprint leaves Dr. Schivel as a possible standout following a better-than-looked third in the Bing Crosby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Although he had more lucrative options out of town for his promising 2-year-old Mattingly, trainer Joe Orseno opted for some home cooking instead, entering the multiple stakes-placed youngster against six others in the $65,000 Hollywood Beach Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

The Hollywood Beach will be decided at five furlongs over the Tapeta course.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A host of stakes winners will run in Saturday’s featured conditioned allowance/optional claimer at Woodbine, including Town Cruise, Luckman, Roaring Forties, and The Minkster.

An 8-year-old owned and trained by Brandon Greer, Town Cruise was a memorable winner of the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile in 2021. He was pounded down to 8-1 late in the betting and promptly led all the way to prevail by 2 1/4 lengths with a 104 Beyer Speed Figure.

Macadamia, the 5-year-old Brazilian-bred mare who won three races at Santa Anita earlier this year, including the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes on turf on May 29, has been retired, trainer Phil D’Amato said on Wednesday.

Racing in Brazil and California, Macadamia won 5 of 13 starts and earned $444,413 for R Unicorn Stable.

D’Amato said Macadamia was recently sent to Kentucky. He said it was unclear whether she will be bred in that state in 2024 or sent to Japan where R Unicorn Stable has a base.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 2023 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita is still five weeks away, but for many BC candidates, the pressure already is on.

“It’s crunch time,” trainer Phil D’Amato said. “We’ll see how they run this weekend, then we’ll have a better picture on what we have Breeders’ Cup time.”

First up is the Grade 3 Chillingworth on Friday, opening day of the Santa Anita fall meet. The 6 1/2-furlong stakes is a prep to the BC Filly and Mare Sprint, and D’Amato-trained graded winner Elm Drive faces a formidable rival who has not lost in two years.

Jockey Antonio Fresu, who was suspended 32 days for a series of whip violations at Del Mar in late summer, has been granted a stay by the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority that allows him to ride the opening two weekends of the Santa Anita autumn meeting that begins on Friday until an appeal is heard.

Fresu’s agent, Tom Knust, said he requested a stay from HISA regarding two rulings against Fresu in the final two weeks of the Del Mar meeting. A hearing regarding an appeal is scheduled for Oct. 4.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will try a second time to run the Grade 3, $150,000 Noble Damsel and $125,000 Ashley T. Cole Stakes on the turf Friday at Aqueduct, but Mother Nature may intervene yet again.

The two races were originally part of last Saturday’s 10-race card that was scrapped by NYRA due to a forecast for rain and strong winds.

The rain lingered into Tuesday and though conditions were expected to be dry Wednesday and Thursday there is a 70 percent chance of rain forecast for Friday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A switch to the Tapeta track in his last start seems to have provided the wake-up call Commandant needed to turn his career in the right direction. The 3-year-old will try to keep that momentum going when facing seven rivals at 5 1/2 furlongs over the synthetic strip under optional-claiming and allowance conditions in a race restricted to Florida-breds on Friday at Gulfstream Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Top of the Charts should be favored while dropping into the seventh race at Woodbine on Friday. He will compete with a tag for the time in the seven-furlong main turf sprint.

Top of the Charts looked like he could be any kind winning his first two starts at Churchill Downs in the spring of last year. However, the 4-year-old missed the second half of 2022, and after struggling this spring on the dirt in Kentucky, he was sent here to trainer Kevin Attard.

ARCADIA, Calif. – While the festive return of Breeders’ Cup to Santa Anita brings renewed excitement to the fall meet, horseplayers may argue the season’s biggest development is the highly anticipated comeback of two popular wagers.