HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gulfstream Park will trot out the new look Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series as the marquee event on a track-record 105-race, $29 million stakes program during the 2018-19 Championship meet, which opens on Dec. 1 and continues through March 31, 2019.

The third edition of the Pegasus World Cup comprises two events for the first time, the $9 million Pegasus World Cup at 1 1/8 miles on the main track, and the $7 million Pegasus Turf Cup at 1 3/16 miles. The Pegasus Turf Cup replaces the Grade 1 Gulfstream Park Turf on this year’s schedule.

ELMONT, N.Y. – There were 26 winning tickets, each worth $67,779, sold on Wednesday’s pick six at Belmont Park as bettors aggressively went after a three-day carryover.

Wednesday’s card began with a $326,010 carryover after the pick six was not hit for three consecutive cards. There was $2,519,765 wagered into the pool Wednesday, despite three of the six races in the sequence being moved from turf to dirt after rain hit the area Tuesday.

The 1 hole is not a neutral draw in six-furlong sprints. It hurt Switzerland in the Vanderbilt Stakes on July 28 at Saratoga, and Switzerland drew the fence again Wednesday when entries were taken for Saturday’s Grade 3, $250,000 De Francis Dash.

Nine were entered in the De Francis, the headliner at Laurel Park on a seven-stakes, 13-race card. The De Francis had been scheduled for Sept. 15 but was moved back a week because of the threat (which never materialized in Maryland) from Hurricane Florence.

Hotstepper is in the house for the Lone Star Park meet for Quarter Horses, which opens Friday night. The winner of the Grade 1, $1.2 million All American Derby, Hotstepper is one of the highest-profile runners on the grounds for the 16-date season, which runs through Nov. 10.

“He’s doing real good,” trainer Sleepy Gilbreath said Wednesday.

Gilbreath said Hotstepper is targeting the Oct. 19 trials for the Grade 1, $400,000 Texas Classic Derby. The finale is Nov. 10.

Blamed, a winner of her last five starts including the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks, is now based in New York with trainer Bill Mott.

Blamed began her career in New Mexico with trainer Joel Marr. She’s won 5 of 6 starts. Following her 6 1/2-length win in the Sunland Park Oaks in March, she traveled to Churchill for the Kentucky Oaks. Blamed was injured in her final work for the race and was rehabbed in Kentucky. She was later transferred to Mott.

The Oklahoma Derby could draw shippers from Southern California, Kentucky, and New York when the Grade 3, $400,000 race runs Sept. 30 at Remington Park. It will anchor a card of 10 stakes that includes the Grade 3, $200,000 Remington Park Oaks.

Entries for the program will be taken Thursday, Sept. 27. First post for the special Sunday afternoon card is 3 p.m. Central.

ELMONT, N.Y. – True Timber, who won a second straight allowance race on Sunday, likely will make his next start in the Grade 3, $200,000 Bold Ruler Handicap at Belmont Park on Oct. 27, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.

True Timber chased the pacesetting Eight Town from the start in the Sunday allowance, and was able to collar that one in deep stretch to win by a half-length. True Timber had won a first-level allowance race here in June before sustaining a cut on a leg that precipitated a layoff.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Arnaud Delacour will have live chances in both of Belmont Park’s graded stakes Saturday when he sends out No Dozing in the Grade 2, $300,000 Kelso Handicap at a mile on dirt and Hawksmoor in the Grade 3, $200,000 Noble Damsel at a mile on turf.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Elate will miss the Grade 1, $400,000 Beldame at Belmont Park on Oct. 6 due to inflammation in and around the splint bone in her right foreleg, trainer Bill Mott said Wednesday.

Mott said he has not ruled out training Elate up to the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

“The best-case scenario is hope to be back going by the first of October,” Mott said. “If that’s the case, then she will have missed a couple of weeks of training. We’ll see what happens.”

CYPRESS, Calif. – Galilean, an unraced Uncle Mo colt purchased for $600,000 at the Barretts April sale of 2-year-olds in training, is one of six probable starters in Saturday’s $100,000 Barretts Juvenile at Los Alamitos.

The Barretts Juvenile, restricted to 2-year-olds who were offered at an auction conducted by Barretts, is the final stakes of the Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Los Alamitos, which ends on Sunday.

Galilean is owned by West Point Thoroughbreds and trained by Jerry Hollendorfer.