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.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Intimidate lost his unbeaten record with a dreadful trip in the Golden Nugget Stakes at Golden Gate Fields. From trainer Bob Hess Sr.’s recollection, the situation could have been much worse. Intimidate was crowded severely at the start.

“We were lucky he didn’t go down,” Hess said. “It wasn’t very good. He lost all chance.”

Masochistic, a multiple stakes winner who has not raced since May, is nearing his first start for trainer Bob Baffert.

Masochistic has been working steadily and could return in the Grade 3 Midnight Lute Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 30, Baffert said earlier this week. The $100,000 Midnight Lute Stakes is run at 6 1/2 furlongs on dirt.

“We’re sort of looking at the Midnight Lute,” Baffert said. “We’ll see how the next few weeks go.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Tap to It, who has started just twice since finishing sixth in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, will return locally to face seven other fillies and mares in Friday’s $50,000 main event, to be decided at seven furlongs under entry-level allowance conditions.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Curlin’s Approval will look to rebound from a disappointing performance in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint when she stretches out to a mile for Saturday’s Grade 3 Rampart at Gulfstream.

A Grade 2 winner here earlier in the year, Curlin’s Approval will face six rivals, including the multiple Grade 2 winner Lewis Bay, who makes her first start since finishing second in the Grade 3 Comely at Aqueduct nearly 13 months earlier.