OZONE PARK, N.Y. – If New Ginya’s last race was a sign of things to come for the 4-year-old filly then there doesn’t figure to be much drama in Friday’s $125,000 John Hettinger Stakes for New York-bred fillies and mares scheduled for 1 1/8 miles over Aqueduct’s turf course.

But, coming off a career-top effort and stretching out just a little farther in distance, New Ginya will have a few things to prove if she’s to continue her ascension in this division.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – R Harper Rose, who missed the opportunity to compete in the opening leg of the filly division of the rich Florida Sire Stakes here earlier this summer after spiking a temperature 48 hours before the race, will return to action against entry-level allowance company in Friday’s co-feature at Gulfstream Park.

Horses who rank a notch below graded stakes caliber benefit from class relief during the Los Alamitos two-week September meet that is sandwiched between summer at Del Mar and autumn at Santa Anita.

Those include three tough veteran sprinters in the starter-allowance feature Friday at Los Alamitos. Moose Mitchell, Lovesick Blues, and Principe Carlo have won a combined 22 races, a total likely to increase in race 7 at 5 1/2 furlongs.

Number One Dude will be doing some surface hopping over the next month, and it starts Friday night when he makes a rare appearance on the grass for the $50,000 Red Earth at Remington Park.

“We’re ultimately looking at the Oklahoma Classics Cup back on the dirt, but this is a good prep,” said Scott Young, who trains Number One Dude.

The Red Earth is one of three Oklahoma-bred stakes on the card, and all should produce starters for the $1 million Oklahoma Classics Night program of stakes Oct. 20 at Remington.

Jim and Dana Bernhard began buying Thoroughbreds in the summer of 2021, and have already found success, as the first yearling they purchased, Geaux Rocket Ride, won the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational this summer.

The Bernhards found a home base for their operations last year, purchasing the Pin Oak Stud of the late Josephine Abercrombie in Versailles, Ky. They’ve wasted no time in continuing to build their operation, ranking among the Keeneland September yearling sale’s leading buyers, and also recently adding a parcel of land to Pin Oak’s acreage.

Grade 1 winner Volatile got off to an explosive start with a filly from his first crop selected to the elite Book 1 of the Keeneland September yearling sale, as she lit up the bid board at $1.15 million.

Volatile, who stands at Goncalo Torrealba’s Three Chimneys Farm in Midway, Ky., was the first of this year’s first-crop sires to break the seven-figure threshold. Gainesway’s McKinzie joined him with a $1.2 million colt sold in Book 2.

“His first crop have been super impressive to us,” Three Chimneys COO Chris Baker said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainers Barbara Minshall and Abraham Katryan will send out four of the six entrants in the first 2-year-old allowance race of the Woodbine meet on Friday. The 6 1/2-furlong Tapeta sprint has a $75,000 claiming option and carries a base purse of $74,000.

Minshall runs probable favorites Two Ghosts and Pontiac.

Saudi Crown, beaten a nose in both the Grade 3 Dwyer and Grade 2 Jim Dandy, drew post 3 in a field of 11 and will likely be a solid favorite in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby scheduled for 1 1/8 miles at Parx Racing.

Jockey Diego Herrera escaped injury when he was unseated in the stretch of Sunday’s sixth race at Los Alamitos.

Herrera said Monday morning that he plans to resume riding Friday.

Herrera was unseated when King Heat veered in sharply in the stretch at a point where the inside has a temporary rail guiding runners past the gap where the turn of the small five-eighths mile track used for nighttime racing meets the stretch.

Jockey Edwin Maldonado became the winningest daytime Thoroughbred rider at Los Alamitos with his victory on Classymademoiselle on Sunday.

Maldonado, 40, won his 128th race at Los Alamitos, surpassing the previous mark held by the retired Martin Pedroza, who most recently rode at Los Alamitos in 2019. Pedroza also had wins from the Orange County Fair meetings at Los Alamitos, which ended in 1991.