LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dale Romans walked down from his Churchill Downs box with arms raised in triumphant fashion. Joy and relief were among the swirl of emotions the 53-year-old trainer was experiencing in the immediate aftermath of his newest stable star Dennis’ Moment winning the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes on Saturday.

“You know how it feels when a horse lets you down,” said Romans. “So when they come through like this one did, you just kind of let it all go. We’re extremely happy with him.”

Los Alamitos on Saturday asked the California Horse Racing Board to reverse a decision on 2020 racing dates made in August that reduces Los Alamitos’s allotment from eight weeks of racing in 2019 to four next year. The board is scheduled to discuss and possibly take action on 2020 racing dates at its monthly meeting Thursday, according to the meeting agenda.

True Valour, the winner of the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes in February, and Restrainedvengence, who won the Rolling Green Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Sept. 2, are scheduled to start in the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile at Santa Anita on Oct. 5.

The $200,000 City of Hope Mile is the leading West Coast prep for the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.

True Valour, owned by Qatar Racing, was diagnosed with bone bruising after the Thunder Road, trainer Simon Callaghan said.

Law Abidin Citizen, the winner of the Grade 3 Longacres Mile in Augustat Emerald Downs, is in the midst of a 60-day vacation on a farm and is scheduled to return to racing in 2020, trainer Mark Glatt said last weekend.

“He’s on some green grass and getting sun on his back,” Glatt said. “I thought it was good timing after the win.

“He went out pretty sound, but I felt like it was a good time to rest him.”

Mr Vargas and Eddie Haskell, the first two finishers of the Grade 3 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar, are on schedule for a rematch in the Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 27.

Mr Vargas, trained by Brian Koriner for Samantha Siegel, worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds on Saturday, his second workout of the month. Mr Vargas won his stakes debut in the Green Flash by 2 1/4 lengths over Eddie Haskell, leading throughout.

Mongolian Groom, third in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 17 and fifth in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga two weeks later, may run in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28, owner and trainer Enebish Ganbat said on Sunday.

Mongolian Groom worked three furlongs in 36.60 seconds at Santa Anita on Saturday, his first workout since finishing 4 1/4 lengths behind Preservationist in the Woodward Stakes.

“He’s doing okay,” Ganbat said. “He came back a little tired from Saratoga. It was really hot.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Annals of Time, winner of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer last month at Saratoga, has sustained an injury that will prevent him from running again this year, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.

Brown said a decision on whether Annals of Time would race in 2020 as a 7-year-old would be made a later date.

“The horse needs a couple of months off, he’s going to miss everything the rest of the year, so we might as well give him an extended break and go from there,” Brown said.

Canterbury Park ended a 66-day mixed-meet racing season Saturday with across-the-board declines in betting handle.

During the 2019 meeting, $40,634,286 was wagered on 634 races, 534 of which were Thoroughbreds. That was a 16 percent decrease from the $48,142,680 bet on 668 races during the 2018 meeting, according to business figures released by Canterbury.

Average daily handle dropped 11.7 percent year over year to $615,671, while average handle per race was off 11 percent to $64,092 and average handle per starter fell to $8,769, a 7.5 percent drop.

In the Navy ran the race of his career earlier this month when he stepped outside the Louisiana-bred ranks and powered to a 3 1/2-length win in the $60,000 Frank L. Brothers on the undercard of the Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Now, he’s headed to Oklahoma.

Trainer Scott Gelner said In the Navy is being pointed to the $100,000 Remington Green, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up on Sept. 29. It will be run on the undercard of the Oklahoma Derby.

“The first place he ever won on the turf was Remington,” Gelner said.

Pirate’s Punch would seem to have a bright future as a half-brother to Girvin, and he suggested as much in his stakes debut earlier this month when he finished a gutsy third in the Grade 3, $300,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. 

The next stop could be the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sept. 29 at Remington Park, according to trainer Grant Forster.