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.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It’s not often a 2-year-old filly is mentioned in the same breath as the great Rachel Alexandra, but that’s what’s happening with Serengeti Empress in the aftermath of her Saturday jaunt in the Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs.

The 19 1/2-length win margin by Serengeti Empress was just shy of the modern-day stakes record at Churchill, held by Rachel Alexandra (20 1/4 lengths in the 2009 Kentucky Oaks). Morever, winning the Grade 2 Pocahontas is something that not even Rachel accomplished.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Wyatt’s Town hasn’t missed a beat since being claimed by Norm McKnight out of a $50,000 maiden-claiming event at Churchill Downs in May.

Wyatt’s Town went on to win that race, and has since won three consecutive starts for his new connections, including the King Corrie Stakes and the Ontario Jockey Club Stakes at Woodbine.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Local Woodbine favorite Tower of Texas, who was a multiple graded stakes winner and ran second to Tepin in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile in 2016, has been retired, trainer Roger Attfield said.

Tower of Texas breezed four furlongs in 48.60 seconds on Woodbine’s Tapeta on Aug. 12, but Attfield said he wasn’t training up to his normal standard.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Uncertainty had surrounded Oscar Performance five weeks prior to his Saturday victory in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, when he was pulled up in the stretch and vanned off in the Arlington Million. But Oscar Performance took the Woodbine field gate to wire, and both assistant trainer Erin Lynch and jockey Jose Ortiz were emotional afterward.

“After Arlington, he gave us a really bad scare, so for him to come back and do this, it’s a big deal,” Lynch said.

CYPRESS, Calif. – The 2-year-old Mucho Gusto sold for $625,000 at May’s Fasig-Tipton Midtlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in Maryland. On Thursday at Los Alamitos, Mucho Gusto will have his career debut in a maiden special weight race at six furlongs.

Mucho Gusto, who is by Mucho Macho Man, is trained by Bob Baffert and will be ridden by Joe Talamo, who has been working the colt. Mucho Gusto will start from the rail in a field of seven.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Om, a four-time stakes winner and millionaire, was recently transferred from longtime trainer Dan Hendricks to Peter Miller with the intent of preparing the 6-year-old for a start in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

A winner of 6 of 27 starts, Om was last of 13 in the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile on Aug. 19 in his final start for Hendricks. Owned by K.B. Sareen, Om was sent to Miller in the weeks following that race and has had two workouts at Miller’s base at San Luis Rey Downs, including five furlongs in 1:01.80 last Friday.

Catalina Cruiser, the undefeated multiple graded stakes winner, has settled into a consistent pattern of workouts this month in the buildup to an expected start in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3.

On Sunday at Santa Anita, Catalina Cruiser worked a half-mile in 48.20 seconds, his second workout since trainer John Sadler’s stable relocated from Del Mar to Santa Anita after Labor Day weekend.

CYPRESS, Calif. - Less than nine months after the start of his career, apprentice jockey Heriberto Figueroa won his first stakes Saturday with Kim K in the $100,000 Barretts Debutante at Los Alamitos.

For the 18-year-old Figueroa, the stakes win was his latest career milestone at Los Alamitos. At the track’s summer meeting, Figueroa tied for the riding title with fellow apprentice Assael Espinoza, a first for both jockeys.