ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby have won a remarkable seven straight Grade 1 stakes at Woodbine, including last year’s $1 million Woodbine Mile with the brilliant Modern Games. They send out Master of The Seas in Saturday’s edition of the key prep for the Breeders’ Cup Mile, which is one of three Grade 1 Win and You’re In qualifiers on the card, along with the Summer and Natalma stakes for 2-year-olds. All three are Lasix-free.

Finding winners is easier than filling races at Los Alamitos, which begins a two-week daytime Thoroughbred meet Friday.

While the win rate of favorites soared to 42 percent the past two years of daytime racing, field size went the other way. Los Alamitos averaged 5.86 horses per race at its June-July meet, a struggle it hopes to mitigate during the September season that runs Friday through Sunday for the next two weeks.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sacred Wish, a Grade 1 stakes-placed runner on dirt, will try turf for the first time in Friday’s $135,000 Winter Memories Stakes at Aqueduct. While her pedigree doesn’t necessarily scream turf, there are some things to suggest she could be live at a price in this one-mile stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Anatomy will make her Tapeta debut in Friday’s featured seventh race at Gulfstream Park.

She’s part of a field of seven fillies and mares set to start in the first-level allowance over five furlongs. The group includes eight-time winner Gitana and the returning runners Gunesh and The Mrs.

Anatomy enters off a runner-up finish at this level on the main track Aug. 27 at Gulfstream. Prior to the start, she won a maiden special weight and a first-level allowance against Florida-breds.

“This filly, she has a big heart,” trainer Jose D’Angelo said.

Cue the theme song to the sitcom “Welcome Back, Kotter.”

Trainer Jose D’Angelo swept the first two divisions of the Florida Sire Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park with the 2-year-olds Welcome Back and Bentornato, which means welcome back in Italian.

Bentornato ran his record to 3 for 3 in the $100,000 Dr. Fager division and is being pointed to the track’s $200,000 Affirmed, D’Angelo said Tuesday.

The seven-furlong race for eligible 2-year-olds is the next offering in the Florida Sire series that closes with the $300,000 In Reality on Dec. 2.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Hallie’s Hero has made a habit of getting to the finish line first at the Woodbine meet, and the versatile veteran should be favored in Friday’s sixth race at Woodbine, a $25,000 claiming sprint on the main turf.

The unbeaten Grand Mo the First will travel from his Gulfstream Park base to Santa Anita in a few weeks to audition for a potential start in the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

Trainer Victor Barboza Jr. said Tuesday that Grand Mo the First is scheduled to make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Zuma Beach Stakes on Oct. 8 at Santa Anita. A good performance in the one-mile turf race for 2-year-olds could set him up for a Breeders’ Cup start on Nov. 3.

“It’s possible he could stay at Santa Anita,” Barboza said of running back in the Breeders’ Cup.

Churchill Downs will open its brief, 14-day September meet on Thursday, and if it’s a quiet opening, perhaps that’s because Churchill would prefer it that way.

Earlier this year, on June 2, Churchill announced that the remaining live racing days in its spring-summer meet would be held at Ellis Park, in reaction to a spate of horse deaths that had generated an intense amount of media coverage at the famous track, the home of the Kentucky Derby. Although some local horsemen complained about the move, the abrupt send-off quieted the noise.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Despite winning two Grade 1 stakes in 2022, Snap Decision lost out on an Eclipse Award as North America’s top steeplechase horse to Hewick, whose lone North American victory came at Snap Decision’s expense in the Grade 1 Grand National at Far Hills last October.

With the goal of making Snap Decision a champion this year, trainer Jack Fisher has taken a different approach to the 9-year-old gelding’s 2023 campaign. Fisher opted to skip the Saratoga meet with Snap Decision to have a fresh horse for two Grade 1 stakes in the next five weeks.

The connections of Cash Logistics hope they can turn the clock back two years Wednesday at Horseshoe Indianapolis.

Cash Logistics roared through the late-summer and fall Indiana-restricted dirt-route stakes program in 2021, winning the $100,000 Empire Stakes by 2 1/4 lengths and the $150,000 Unreachable Star by almost six. Cash Logistics missed the 2022 Horseshoe Indianapolis meet, but in a comeback race Aug. 23 he looked like the same horse he was two summers ago. If he is, Cash Logistics will win his second Empire in the co-featured eighth race Wednesday.