Flameaway and Diamond King, both alums of this year's Triple Crown trail, top a field of eight 3-year-olds drawn for the Grade 3, $300,000 Smarty Jones Stakes on Saturday at Parx Racing. The race serves as a local prep for the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 22.

Flameaway, last seen finishing second by three-quarters of a length in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga, will be seeking his fifth career stakes win for trainer Mark Casse. The Scat Daddy colt finished 13th in the Kentucky Derby, sitting fourth at the quarter pole but fading late.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The work ethic that propelled Drayden Van Dyke to a Del Mar record-equaling day Sunday and a spot atop the jockeys’ standings this summer was evident Monday morning, when he was out bright and early, working horses at 6:30 for upcoming races.

Van Dyke was still understandably excited over what had transpired Sunday, when he became only the second jockey to win seven races on a single Del Mar card, equaling Victor Espinoza’s feat of 2006.

“I slept like crap, just from excitement,” Van Dyke said. “Plus, I had to respond to all my text messages.”

It’s the shtick that keeps on giving.

Owner-trainer Carlo Vaccarezza likes to name some of his horses for friends and acquaintances with “Little” in the title. So when Little Chesney won the $75,000 Jupiter Beach Stakes on Sunday at Gulfstream Park in South Florida, there were questions.

Vaccarezza said he named Little Chesney for Bryan Walls, the longtime clocker at the Palm Meadows training center in Boynton Beach.

“I tell Bryan he looks like Kenny Chesney,” the superstar country musician, Vaccarezza said. “So I named the horse for him.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Multiple graded stakes winner Tower of Texas is close to making his next start after most recently running sixth in the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes on the June 30 Queen’s Plate undercard.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse added another accomplishment to his Canadian racing résumé Saturday when Neepawa won the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes, the third and final jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, over 1 1/2 miles on the Woodbine turf.

Casse swept all three legs of the Canadian Triple Crown this year – winning the Queen’s Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes with Wonder Gadot, and the Breeders’ Stakes with Neepawa.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Lava Man, the Hall of Famer who was treated for colic in late July, was recently transferred from a local equine clinic to trainer Doug O’Neill’s stable at Del Mar.

O’Neill said that Lava Man will remain with his stable until the end of the summer meeting here on Sept. 3. Lava Man has been a stable pony for O’Neill.

“He’s just chillin’,” O’Neill said. “He’ll stay here until the end of the meet and then go to a farm near Santa Anita.

“He looks phenomenal. He’s on a different diet.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Fatale Bere, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks for 3-year-old fillies, is expected to start in Grade 1 stakes within her age group at Keeneland and Santa Anita in coming months.

On Sunday, trainer Leonard Powell said he is targeting races such as the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland on Oct. 13 and the American Oaks at Santa Anita in the final week of the year.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Fashion Business is bound for the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3 after winning his first stakes in Saturday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap. 

Trainer Phil D’Amato’s job over the next two months is to prove that the upstart 4-year-old belongs in the richest grass race in the United States.

Fashion Business earned a fees-paid berth to the $4 million BC Turf at 1 1/2 miles with an eye-catching rally in the $252,070 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf. He earned a 104 Beyer Speed Figure with the victory.

Trainer Claudio Gonzalez and jockey Jevian Toledo led their respective divisions at the Laurel Park summer meet, which concluded Sunday.

Gonzalez, a 41-year-old native of Chile, long ago clinched the training title. He won 23 races at the meet, eight more than runner-up Hamilton Smith, who won the final race of the meet to break a tie for second with Dale Capuano.

The summer meet is Gonzalez's second title this year. He also topped the standings at the Laurel winter-spring meet, which ran from the first of the year to early May.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Accelerate seemed to come out of his runaway victory in the Pacific Classic on Saturday in good condition, trainer John Sadler said Sunday morning at his Del Mar barn, allowing Sadler to move forward with the overall plan he has to attack this year’s Breeders’ Cup, with Accelerate headed toward the Classic and stablemate Catalina Cruiser to the Dirt Mile, both on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs.