Trainer D. Wayne Lukas is expected to return to his home in Louisville, Ky., over the weekend after spending time at a Philadelphia hospital, but he most likely will miss the Lukas Classic at Churchill Downs on Saturday. Lukas, 80, has been hospitalized since last Saturday night after experiencing a dangerous drop in heart rate. He was in the area to run horses in the Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion at Parx Racing.

Lukas’s family on Wednesday released the following statement to Daily Racing Form:

West Coast-based horses have won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in seven of the last 13 years, including the last two with Texas Red and New Year’s Day. Though it’s still early, that trend of West Coast domination could very well continue in the $2 million Juvenile at Keeneland on Oct. 31.

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If only out of deference to her last two performances in this race – she was the runner-up in 2013 and the winner last year at Santa Anita – Judy the Beauty leads the roll call for the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint. After all, she’s the champ until proven otherwise.

“Everything we’ve done since she left the winner’s circle last year at Santa Anita has been with the intention of winning the race again,” said owner and trainer Wesley Ward.

The future-book favorite for the $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland on Oct. 31 is a European-based runner becoming increasingly familiar to American racing fans.

Flintshire, second in the 2014 BC Turf at Santa Anita and the winner of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer at Saratoga on Aug. 29, was as low as 5-2 this week with some British bookmakers for the BC Turf, the richest turf race in the United States.

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Undrafted and jockey Frankie Dettori will be partnered for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, trainer Wesley Ward said. The Grade 1, $1 million race will be run Oct. 31 at Keeneland.

Dettori guided Undrafted to a half-length win in the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes on June 20 at Ascot. Undrafted has raced once since that six furlong race, finishing second in the $300,000 More Than Ready on Sept. 5 at Kentucky Downs. Ward said the horse’s next start will come in the Breeders’ Cup.

“He’s going to train into it,” said Ward.

FRANKLIN, Ky. – Kentucky Downs ended its September meet Saturday with a record single-day handle of $5,071,415 from all sources, concluding another outstanding meet for the rural turf-only track.

Gross handle for the 48-race meet was nearly $16.9 million, which also was a record while up 6 percent over the corresponding total for the 2014 meet, when two more races were run. Moreover, a Saturday card (Sept. 12) at this meet had to be moved to a Monday because of course conditions.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Lady Eli’s road to recovery from laminitis will travel through Kentucky as the undefeated 3-year-old filly left Belmont Park on Monday by van and was headed to Dell Ridge Farm in Lexington, where she will be turned out for two months.

If all goes well, trainer Chad Brown said Lady Eli could return to him at the end of November at Palm Meadows, a training center in south Florida, and be put back in training for a possible 4-year-old campaign.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas had a temporary pacemaker implanted under his shoulder Sunday and was feeling much better afterward, according to a member of his traveling staff.

Lukas, who turned 80 this month, became ill Saturday and was admitted to the Torresdale campus of Aria Health in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday night. Lukas had traveled east to start last year’s champion 2-year-old filly, Take Charge Brandi, in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes and Mr. Z in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing on Saturday but wasn’t feeling well and didn’t come to the track.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was taken to the Torresdale campus of Aria Health in suburban Philadelphia on Saturday night after members of his traveling staff called 911.

Lukas, 80, was in Philadelphia to run last year’s 2-year-old champion filly Take Charge Brandi in the Grade 1 Cotillion Stakes and Mr. Z in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing. Lukas was feeling weak Saturday, according to John Sica, who has worked for Lukas for 18 years, and he decided to stay at the hotel rather than go to the track.

BENSALEM, Pa. - Parx Racing handled $5,859,269 on its 11-race Pennsylvania Derby Day card on Saturday, the second highest in track history.

The record was set last year, when the immensely popular Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner California Chrome ran in the Pennsylvania Derby and Kentucky Oaks winner Untapable raced in the Cotillion, Parx handled more than $10.3 million.

The previous record of $5.5 million was set on Pennsylvania Derby Day in 2013 when Will Take Charge defeated Moreno.