OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Ollie Figgins III, the Mid-Atlantic-based trainer who has runners in both of this weekend’s New York Stallion Series stakes at Aqueduct, will have a string of approximately 10 horses in New York for the winter.

“Just trying to get my foot in the door and see how we fare,” Figgins said.

More than $650,000 has been raised to aid people affected by the wildfire that struck the San Luis Rey Downs training center on Dec. 7, according to a statement released by Del Mar on Wednesday.

The donations were collected through a GoFundMe account administered by Santa Anita and Del Mar. Santa Anita’s parent company, The Stronach Group, owns San Luis Rey Downs in Bonsall, Calif. Del Mar is housing approximately 250 horses displaced by the fire. Del Mar is open for training for those horses as San Luis Rey Downs undergoes renovation.

The graded stakes winners Favorable Outcome, New Money Honey, and Rymska will be among five runners in graded stakes at Santa Anita later this month for trainer Chad Brown, whose stable leads the nation in earnings.

Brown said Thursday he plans to start Favorable Outcome in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs Dec. 26, New Money Honey and Rymska in the Grade 1 American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/4 miles on turf Dec. 30, and Elysea’s World and Penjade in the Grade 3 Robert Frankel Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf Dec. 30.

Dazzling Gem, the talented 4-year-old dirt-route horse, is set to make his first start since March this weekend, but it won’t come Saturday at Fair Grounds. Dazzling Gem’s name appears among the entries for the $75,000 Tenacious Stakes, but he’ll start instead in a race Sunday at Remington Park, trainer Brad Cox said.

Cox still has Leofric for the Tenacious, and he also has two more stakes trophies after Inveniam Viam won the $100,000 Louisiana Ladies and Extra Credit the $100,000 Louisiana Turf this past Saturday.

Valadorna, the talented 4-year-old filly trained by Mark Casse, is entered in Saturday’s Blushing K. D. Stakes, but think nothing of it. Casse entered Valadorna in the race in case heavy rain in the New Orleans area on Dec. 8 played havoc with the Fair Grounds track. But races that day went off without a hitch, among them a second-level, two-turn dirt allowance Valadorna won by almost six lengths.

“We entered her again the day before she ran just in case something happened,” Casse said. “We’ll aim her now for the Tiffany Lass Stakes.”

It was back late in the last millennium and early this one that the crack sprinter Bonapaw was plying his trade. Tucker Alonzo trained Bonapaw for much of his career, and, at 81, he just might have his best horse since.

The Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby is still the main event during the Sunland Park meet, which opens Friday, but notable highlights this season include the return of a traditional pick six, a new hotel on the grounds, and potential appearances by Jessies First Down, reigning world champion Quarter Horse, and Conquest Mo Money, a hometown hero who last ran in the Preakness.

Sunland, which conducts a mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses, will race 72 dates through April 17.

Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen won five consecutive races Tuesday at Remington to tie a track record for trainer wins on a card.

Asmussen sent out the winners of the third through seventh races. Ramon Vazquez, who leads the jockey standings at Remington, rode the first four winners for Asmussen, while Donnie Meche was on the barn’s final winner on the card.

Asmussen on Tuesday also passed the $2 million mark in stable earnings at Remington, setting a track record for a meet, according to a press release from the track.

Jockey Luis Quinonez will be part of a class of six entering the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Friday. He will be joined by C.R. Trout, a breeder, owner, and trainer; Joe Offolter, one of the winningest trainers in the history of Remington; Chris Lincoln, a longtime racing broadcaster; Caleb’s Posse, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile; and She’s All In, a millionaire.

Jockey Luis Quinonez is positioned to have a memorable closing weekend at Remington Park. He will enter the Oklahoma Horse Racing Hall of Fame on Friday night, and on Sunday has mounts in five of the card’s six stakes, including the $400,000 Springboard Mile.

Quinonez will team with Kingsville in the Springboard Mile. The race drew a full gate of 12, including Greyvitos, winner of the Grade 3 Bob Hope at Del Mar.