M and M Racing and Karl Broberg have emerged as an owner-trainer team to watch. They had first stakes win together last week at Evangeline Downs and will be shooting for another this weekend at Lone Star Park.

Americium captured the $50,000 Opelousas last Friday at Evangeline, while Silver Moon Rising will start as one of the top contenders in the $100,000 fillies’ division of the Texas Thoroughbred Futurity on Sunday at Lone Star. Broberg joined the M and M Racing team of Mike and Mickala Sisk this year, picking up horses for Lone Star.

Strollin the Bayou flew home from last to win the Purple Violet Stakes for Illinois-breds on June 16. If she can transfer that Polytrack form to turf she’ll win the sixth race Friday at Arlington – but that’s a big if.

Strollin the Bayou’s two best races have come on Arlington’s synthetic surface. Perhaps she’s just a different horse racing in blinkers, which trainer Chris Block added for the Purple Violet, but there’s a better chance she excels on Arlington’s main track.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Twenty-one large individual win bets totaling $124,109 were placed on Firenze Fire in the last 28 seconds of wagering, prompting his odds to plummet from 5-1 to 5-2 in Saturday’s Grade 3 Dwyer, a race he won.

According to information provided by the New York Racing Association, there was one individual wager of $24,055, another of $11,596, one of $8,500, and a dozen of $5,000 made in the last 28 seconds before post. Other wagers ranged from $547 to $4,355.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The Canadian-based trainer Catherine Day Phillips has run just one horse at Belmont Park, that being A Bit O’ Gold, who finished last in the 2005 Breeders’ Cup Classic.

On Saturday, Day Phillips will be back in New York to run Mr Havercamp in the $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes going a mile over the Widener turf. Mr Havercamp, a 4-year-old Ontario-bred gelding by Court Vision, has won 5 of 7 starts, including the Steady Growth Stakes at Woodbine by 4 3/4 lengths on June 16.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The road warrior Pavel will again be traveling, as he will make his next start in the Grade 1, $1.2 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 4, trainer Doug O’Neill said Wednesday.

Pavel ended a six-race losing streak with an authoritative 3 3/4-length victory in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs on June 16. Though based in Southern California, Pavel has, in 10 races, run at Saratoga, Parx, Belmont, Meydan, and Churchill in addition to Santa Anita and Del Mar.

A trainer stabled a few barns away from Rodolphe Brisset last winter at Fair Grounds was confused. Brisset’s horses looked great. The operation seemed to run smoothly. Where were the results?

Brisset had his first starter as a head trainer in May 2017. By year’s end, his record stood at 70-6-8-10. The winter, with Brisset split between Fair Grounds and Tampa Bay Downs, was just as slow. Between Oct. 1 and Feb. 1, only two of his 38 starters won.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Geovanni Franco, who has not ridden since June 24 because of a sprained knee, will resume riding at Del Mar on July 18, the track’s opening day of the summer meeting.

Franco, the second-leading rider at the Santa Anita spring-summer meeting, recently underwent an MRI test that revealed the sprain, according to his agent, James Giannone.

Franco exercised horses at Santa Anita on Wednesday and could have a mount at Los Alamitos on Sunday, the final day of that track’s summer meeting, Giannone said.

Roy H, the champion sprinter of 2017, and Paradise Woods, a multiple Grade 1 winner, worked at Santa Anita on Wednesday for upcoming stakes at Del Mar.

Roy H, trained by Peter Miller for Rockingham Ranch and David Bernsen, was third in the $2 million Duabi Golden Shaheen on March 31. The 6-year-old gelding is scheduled to start in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at six furlongs at Del Mar on July 28.

Wednesday, Roy H worked five furlongs in 59.20 seconds.

Lady Lucy, a maiden race winner at Churchill Downs last month, has been transferred to California trainer Phil D’Amato after being bought for $200,000 at the Fasig-Tipton horses of racing age sale in Kentucky on Monday.

Lady Lucy, by Into Mischief, is now owned by the Little Red Feather partnership and Sam Aguilar. The filly won her second start, which came in a five-furlong race on June 15 for trainer William Connelly.

“I think she’s due to arrive in the next few days,” D’Amato said on Wednesday.

Trainer Wayne Catalano said Wednesday he would not be shipping Farrell to Delaware Park for this Saturday’s Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap.

Farrell, a confirmed front-runner, is based at Churchill Downs. A four-time Grade 2 winner, Farrell is coming off runner-up placings in the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis and the Grade 1 La Troienne at Churchill. She may have gone off the third choice in the Del Cap behind expected favorites Elate and Unbridled Mo.

Catalano said the race “looked a little cluttered” for his filly.