LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Mind Your Biscuits completed his serious preparation for his next start in the Lukas Classic by breezing five furlongs in 1:02 before dawn Friday over a fast Churchill Downs strip.

Tyler Gaffalione, who will ride Mind Your Biscuits when the Grade 3, $200,000 Lukas Classic is run Saturday night under the Churchill lights, was in from Florida to work the 5-year-old horse.

“Everything went as planned,” trainer Chad Summers said. “He broke off a little slow, but I got him from the three-eighths to the wire in :36. He’s sitting on a big race.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – King Kreesa will be reunited with familiar New York-bred turf-stakes rival Lubash at Old Friends, a retirement facility in Kentucky.

King Kreesa, a winner of 11 of 43 starts, including 10 stakes, has been retired from racing at age 9 and will be sent to Old Friends in the coming days, trainer David Donk said Thursday.

Donk said that Michael Blowen, who heads Old Friends, came to him a while back and said that when Donk and owners Gerald and Susan Kresa were ready to retire King Kreesa, Old Friends would like to have him.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Lady Joan suffered a tough neck defeat to La Moneda in the Yaddo Stakes at Saratoga last month.

With La Moneda skipping Sunday’s $125,000 John Hettinger Stakes to await a race next month, Lady Joan could be the horse to beat in the Hettinger for New York-bred females going 1 1/8 miles on turf.

Lady Joan ran three times at Saratoga, losing twice to La Moneda and winning a second-level allowance race at 1 3/8 miles.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The 9-year-old Kharafa, who upset last month’s West Point Stakes at 17-1 odds, will seek a fourth victory in Sunday’s $125,000 Ashley T. Cole Stakes for New York-breds at Belmont Park.

Kharafa will be making his 51st start on Sunday, and this will be the sixth straight year he has run in the Ashley T. Cole, run at 1 1/8 miles over Belmont’s inner turf course. Kharafa, a gelding by Kitalpha trained by Tim Hills, won this race in 2013, 2015, and 2016. He finished third in 2014 and last year.

Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., will open its meet later than usual on Saturday and with a makeover of its Land of Enchantment program, which annually features its richest offerings for Thoroughbreds. The 53-date meet also includes Quarter Horse racing, and runs through Dec. 19.

Zia has opened the first week in September in the past, and is opening later this year to reduce a 12- to 13-day overlap with the Downs at Albuquerque, said Matt Crawford, manager of racing operations for Zia.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Good Bye Greg got a late start this year to his 7-year-old campaign, but he is getting in a plenty of late-summer racing and will be favored to win the featured third race Saturday as Arlington says good-bye to another season.

Good Bye Greg has found more Arlington success throughout his career than any horse stabled at the suburban Chicago venue, and starts for what have become the perennial leading connections at Arlington – owner Vince Foglia’s Patricia’s Hope LLC, trainer Larry Rivelli, and jockey Jose Valdivia Jr.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York-bred Highway Star won the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom Handicap last year to cap a series of good efforts in graded stakes and establish herself as a significant player for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

It’s been nothing but frustration ever since then for her connections.

On Sunday, Highway Star will look to end that frustration and earn a return trip to the Filly and Mare Sprint with a repeat victory in the Gallant Bloom, one of three stakes on the 10-race card.

ARCADIA, Calif. – West Coast, the champion 3-year-old colt of 2017, worked six furlongs from the gate in 1:12.60 at Santa Anita on Thursday.

Unraced since a second-place finish in the Dubai World Cup in March, West Coast has had five workouts since he returned to training in California during the summer. Thursday’s workout was his first at six furlongs since his return.

“I have no races in mind,” trainer Bob Baffert said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The fast filly Anonymity is Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella’s best chance for success at the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs in early November.

Anonymity, second in the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 12, is scheduled to start in the Grade 3 L.A. Woman Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 7 in what could be a prep for the BC Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 3.

ARCADIA, Calif. – At 55, Gary Stevens has a list of 2-year-old mounts that could make for an interesting next few weeks at Santa Anita.

Stevens will ride Del Mar May for the first time in the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes for 2-year-old fillies on Sept. 29. On Oct. 8, Stevens is booked to ride King of Speed in the $100,000 Zuma Beach Stakes for 2-year-olds on turf.

Those races will determine if those 2-year-olds are sent to Churchill Downs for Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 2.