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.”

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.