Mr. Hinx, who was vanned off after finishing second in the Damascus Stakes at Del Mar on Nov. 3, is recovering from surgery for a displaced condylar fracture of a foreleg.

Owner and breeder Gary Barber said at Del Mar last weekend that there is no timetable for Mr. Hinx’s recovery and is hopeful the 3-year-old gelding will race again. Mr. Hinx underwent the operation days after the Damascus Stakes.

“It will take time,” Barber said.

“The vet is very happy. They say it went well. Some come back and some don’t come back.”

Jockey Flavien Prat, who has won or tied for leading rider at four meetings at Del Mar and Santa Anita this year, has been suspended Dec. 30 and 31 for riding in more than one designated race at Del Mar last weekend.

Stormy Liberal, the upset winner of the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar on Nov. 4, worked five furlongs in 59.20 seconds in a clockwise direction at San Luis Rey Downs on Tuesday in preparation for the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin Racecourse in Hong Kong on Dec 10.

Stormy Liberal began the workout just before the first turn, and ran down the stretch and onto the backstretch for five furlongs, according to trainer Peter Miller. Miller timed Stormy Liberal in 22.60 seconds for the final quarter-mile. Stormy Liberal galloped out six furlongs in 1:12.60.

Jockey Alan Garcia, who won the Belmont Stakes in 2008 with Da’ Tara, said this will be the first time he has wintered at Oaklawn. There were several reasons to test the new market, said the rider, currently based at Woodbine.

“I have some people who are giving me an opportunity to ride for them,” he said.

Garcia said another reason is because of how well the Oaklawn season dovetails with Woodbine, where he will continue to ride through the end of the meet, Dec. 10. Garcia is the ninth-leading rider at Woodbine.

Cedartown, who won his stakes debut in the $200,000 Zia Park Derby last Wednesday in New Mexico, is settled in at Fair Grounds and is a candidate for some of the meet’s route stakes, according to trainer Mike Stidham.

Cedartown earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 96 for his Zia Derby, a 1 1/16-mile race that he won in 1:43.76. Cedartown rallied for a 1 3/4-length victory.

Adam Beschizza has been at Fair Grounds before, working as an exercise rider for trainer Mike Stidham in 2009 and for trainer Joe Sharp in 2015. But this year the 25-year-old English rider is back in New Orleans as a full-time jockey, and he had his first three U.S. winners this past racing week. All three horses, including two Sunday, are trained by Sharp, who met Beschizza when Sharp was an assistant to Stidham the year Beschizza came over.

Hall of Fame rider Gary Stevens said Monday he plans to winter at the Oaklawn Park meet that opens in January. He is scheduled to ride the opening-day card Dec. 26 at Santa Anita, then get on the road to Hot Springs, Ark. Stevens said he plans to be working horses at Oaklawn no later than Jan. 2. The meet starts Jan. 12.

Trainer Mark Casse has some sorting to do with an excellent group of 2-year-old fillies.

Road to Victory won the Grade 2 Golden Rod on Saturday at Churchill Downs, adding to the strong roster of young female talent in the far-reaching Casse string. Road to Victory is headed for Florida, with the Gulfstream Oaks and the Kentucky Oaks atop the list of her 2018 targets. Wonder Gadot, a troubled sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, ships from Florida to New York for the Demoiselle Stakes this Saturday at Aqueduct.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It is no surprise that trainer Mike Maker is loaded and ready for Saturday’s Claiming Crown races, which highlight opening day of the 2017-18 Gulfstream Park championship meet.

Maker said Tuesday he plans to enter 18 horses for the nine Claiming Crown races, with a half-dozen of the horses belonging to his principal owners Ken and Sarah Ramsey. Maker and the Ramseys have dominated the series since its inception nearly two decades ago, with 15 victories apiece.

Trainer Jeremiah Englehart, who won a pair of stakes Friday at Aqueduct, will send out Indy Union in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Demoiselle for 2-year-old fillies.

Indy Union, a daughter of Union Rags, enters the Demoiselle off a seven-length maiden win going a one-turn mile at Belmont. Two starts before that, she finished third, beaten three lengths by Caledonia Road, in a seven-furlong race at Saratoga. Caledonia Road came back to run second in the Grade 1 Frizette before winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies.