DEL MAR, Calif. – A day after he was removed from his mounts by the board of stewards, jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. received a court order from a San Diego Superior Court judge on Friday allowing him to resume riding at Del Mar until recent drug tests can be analyzed by a California Horse Racing Board-sanctioned lab.

Hit the Beach won’t mind the move back to a sprint and some class relief when he runs in a first-level allowance race that has a $50,000 claiming option Sunday at Emerald Downs. The six-furlong dash for 3-years-olds and up drew seven horses and appears to be a wide-open event.

CHICAGO – There will be no spring Thoroughbred race meet in Chicago in 2020 as the Illinois racing circuit continues to sort out the ramifications of recently passed expanded gambling legislation that will permit racetracks to operate casinos.

Applications for 2020 racing dates were due to be filed with the Illinois Racing Board by Wednesday and notably absent from this year’s application was a spring Thoroughbred meeting at Hawthorne. Track president Tim Carey said Hawthorne didn’t apply for spring dates because it expects to be constructing a casino in part of its grandstand.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Beginning Wednesday at Saratoga, the New York Racing Association will offer the Empire 6, a jackpot-style wager modeled after the Rainbow 6 that has become a popular bet at other tracks such as Gulfstream Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin hopes A Thread of Blue’s speed might serve him better going longer, which is why he entered him in Sunday’s $1 million Saratoga Derby at 1 3/16 miles.

A Thread of Blue has yet to run farther than 1 1/16 miles, something he accomplished successfully in the Grade 3 Palm Beach Stakes at Gulfstream in March. Since then he was beaten three-quarters of a length in the Grade 2 American Turf at 1 1/16 miles and finished fourth in the Grade 2 Penn Mile when either on or near the early lead.

In April, Mr. Money wasn’t even the best 3-year-old in trainer Bret Calhoun’s barn, but come August he has emerged as the Midwest’s leading sophomore and is a deserving short-priced favorite Saturday in the Grade 3, $500,000 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer Park.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Eclair, the most expensive horse at the Fasig-Tipton Santa Anita sale of 2-year-olds in training in June, will have her career debut amidst high expectations in Saturday’s first race at Del Mar.

Trained by Bob Baffert for Sarah Kelly and Jane Wiltz, Eclair is part of a field of five in a maiden special weight race at six furlongs for fillies. Drayden Van Dyke has the mount and has worked Eclair.

“She’s very athletic,” Van Dyke said. “She gets over the ground well.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Bulletproof One is likely to stay in the California-bred 2-year-old filly division after a convincing win in her Southern California debut in Wednesday’s $100,702 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Stakes for statebred fillies at Del Mar.

Bulletproof One led throughout the CTBA Stakes, winning by 6 1/4 lengths without being urged late by jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. Bulletproof One ran 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:04.70, earning a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 76.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The winners arrived early and late for trainer Doug O’Neill at Del Mar on Wednesday.

O’Neill won five of the seven races to equal a single-day record for wins in a day at Del Mar that he set in 2015.

From a surprise win by So Gucci ($49.20) in Wednesday’s first race to Ocean Fury’s win at $6.20 as the second choice in the final race, O’Neill had a brilliant day with seven runners.

“It was an awesome day,” he said on Thursday. “I thought we had a couple of good chances, but I didn’t seen it coming.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Off a fast restricted stakes score, Ciuri will move up in class against 10 other 3-year-old fillies in Saturday’s $100,000 Duchess Stakes going seven furlongs at Woodbine.

A front-runner trained by Robert Tiller, Ciuri won her first two races easily, an open six-furlong maiden special in April and an Ontario-sired allowance over the same distance in May. In her only loss, she was outrun for the lead before fading to third against nonwinners-of-three Ontario-sired allowance types June 7.