Led by the recent stakes winner Gold Phoenix, trainer Phil D’Amato intends to have as many as four runners in the Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship at Santa Anita on Sept. 28.

Balnikhov, Divin Propos, and Rockemperor are D’Amato’s three other expected runners in the John Henry Turf Championship.

Gold Phoenix won the Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap on Aug. 31 for a record third consecutive year, earning a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 2. Gold Phoenix was 10th in the 2022 BC Turf at Keeneland and fourth in the race at Santa Anita last year.

Officially, Senor Buscador worked three furlongs in 36.60 seconds at Santa Anita on Friday in advance of a scheduled start in the Grade 1 California Crown on Sept. 28, but there was much more to his morning exercise.

The workout was part of a disrupted trip to the track for Senor Buscador, best known for winning the $20 million Saudi Cup in Saudi Arabia in February.

Anisette, a five-time stakes winner who was a close third in the Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes at Del Mar on Sept. 7, will have her next start in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 2.

Trainer Leonard Powell said on Friday that Anisette will miss the Grade 2 Rodeo Drive Stakes at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 5 by design.

“I think we’ll freshen for the Breeders’ Cup,” he said. “She has run well fresh.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Champion jockey Frankie Dettori suffered a dislocated right shoulder as a result of an incident in the starting gate Thursday at Aqueduct.

Dettori, 53, was off his mounts Friday at Aqueduct and his status is day-to-day, according to his agent Ron Anderson, though the prospects of him riding over the weekend seemed remote. Dettori, who was named on six horses on Friday, is named on eight horses at Aqueduct on Saturday. He is also named to ride two stakes at Finger Lakes on Monday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Champion jockey Frankie Dettori was taken to Jamaica Hospital on Thursday after being unseated from his mount Pretty Liza in the starting gate just prior to the start of the last race at Aqueduct.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – An upset victory by Miriam’s Fire ($43.20) in Thursday’s last race at Aqueduct resulted in a double pick six carryover of $159,463 into Friday’s card.

There was a carryover of $48,657 entering Thursday’s card after the wager went unhit Sunday. There was $194,396 wagered into the pool. The results through the first five legs of the pick six were rather formful, with the winners paying $10.60, $7.10, $10.80, $7.40, and $6.60.

When Instinct D’Oro won a nondescript $20,000 claimer at Los Alamitos last Saturday, it was little more than the result of the day’s seventh race to most observers.

For winning rider Edgar Payeras, it was a welcome achievement less than an hour after being unseated and taken off the track in an ambulance.

Payeras, 30, was aboard the longshot Takamakahara in the day’s fifth race when a rival, Smiling Tony, drifted to the inside and caused Takamakahara to clip heels. Payeras escaped injury and rode the following race.

“I was very lucky,” Payeras said.

Full Serrano, second in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar in his American stakes debut on Aug. 31, was recently diagnosed with a temperature that will prevent the 5-year-old Argentine-bred from starting in the Grade 1 California Crown at Santa Anita on Sept. 28.

Trainer John Sadler on Thursday that Full Serrano has recovered from the brief illness and will resume racetrack exercise on Friday. The setback has led to an uncertain racing schedule for Full Serrano this fall.