ARCADIA, Calif. – Instagrand, the precocious California-based 2-year-old colt ranked among the early favorites for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, will be turned out and aim for a 3-year-old campaign.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Tuesday that owner Larry Best decided to suspend the colt’s 2-year-old campaign following two runaway wins – a 10-length debut victory June 29 at Los Alamitos, and a 10 ¼-length romp in the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes on Aug. 11 at Del Mar.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Miss Technicality, six-length winner of the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Fillies Turf, worked a half-mile Monday morning in 49.63 seconds over the inner turf course at Belmont Park.

Miss Technicality, trained by Christophe Clement, is being pointed to the Grade 2, $200,000 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont on Sept. 30.

ELMONT, N.Y. – A small portion of trainer Chad Brown’s turf arsenal got back on the grass for workouts Monday at Belmont Park, led by Robert Bruce, the Arlington Million winner who is preparing for a start in the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic here on Sept. 29.

Robert Bruce beat stablemate Almanaar by a half-length in the Million, and he worked in company with that horse Monday. The pair went five furlongs in 1:02.56 over a course that could have been labeled anywhere from good to yielding. The pair came home in 24.05 seconds for their final quarter.

High North, a multiple stakes winner who ran third in the Grade 3, $300,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs in his last start Sept. 2, is being freshened, trainer Brad Cox said Monday.

“He came out of his race in good order,” Cox said. “We’re giving him a break. He’s been in training for a while, performed well for us all year.”

The Grade 3 Houston Ladies Classic will be run Jan. 27 at Sam Houston, according to a press release from the track. The race will again share a program with the Grade 3 John B. Connally Turf Cup.

The special Sunday program will have a first post of 1 p.m. Central.

The purse for the Houston Ladies Classic, which is for fillies and mares, will be announced when the stakes schedule is released, according to Frank Hopf, senior director of racing operations for Sam Houston. This year, the race was worth $400,000 and was run at 1 1/16 miles.

Big Changes had his first work on Saturday since winning the $60,000 Unbridled on Sept. 2 at Louisiana Downs, breezing a half-mile in 49.60 seconds at his base of Churchill Downs.

Big Changes won the Unbridled by a neck to stay unbeaten in four starts this year. He also won stakes at Evangeline Downs in July and Mountaineer in August, and launched his season in June with an optional-claiming victory at Indiana Grand.

Trainer Brad Cox said Monday that Big Changes breezed well and that he would like to run him back in about a month.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Sunday’s Tamiami Handicap marked the first time Georgina Baxter has been the official trainer of record for Pay Any Price. But Baxter has been an integral part of Pay Any Price’s amazing success almost since the day owner Richard Averill claimed the turf sprint specialist for $25,000 more than two years ago.

Canterbury Park lost starters but gained handle during a 69-day mixed-breed race meet that ended Sept. 15.

Average starters per race declined to 7.6 in 668 races this season from 8.05 in 648 races during a 67-day meeting in 2017. Handle, however, was up across the board. All-sources average daily handle, according to business figures provided by Canterbury, was $697,720 this year, up 7 percent from $651,830 last year. Average handle per race rose 7.1 percent to $72,178 from $67,397, while average handle per betting interest increased 13 percent to $11,322 from $10,017.

ELMONT, N.Y. – While Triple Crown winner Justify transitions into his life of retirement, the three horses who finished immediately behind him in the Kentucky Derby 4 1/2 months ago are making news.

Good Magic, the Derby runner-up and 2-year-old champion of 2017, will get the remainder of the year off, trainer Chad Brown confirmed on Monday. Good Magic, who finished ninth as the favorite in the Grade 1 Travers at Saratoga, is getting a break at Stonestreet Farm in Lexington, Ky. Barbara Banke, the head of Stonestreet, owns Good Magic in partnership Bob Edwards’ e Five Racing.

Trainer Brad Cox alerted Daily Racing Form readers that Covfefe and Unholy Alliance were both ready to win at first asking Sunday, and boy was he spot-on. Cox was thrilled with how they won within 33 minutes of one another in split divisions of a six-furlong maiden-special race for 2-year-old fillies (races 7 and 8). Both were ridden by Shaun Bridgmohan.

“There’s a whole lot that goes into performances like that,” said Cox. “I’m very grateful to the owners for the opportunity and my staff for their hard work.”