Brass Hat, one of the most popular horses on the Kentucky circuit in the last decade, will be paraded before what is expected to be a sizable crowd Sunday at Ellis Park.

It’s Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance Day at the western Kentucky track, with a number of activities and tributes honoring retired racehorses on the docket. Brass Hat is the literal poster boy: Free posters will be given to those in attendance, with owner and trainer Buff Bradley and Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel available for autographs.

The harsh implications of starting Donworth against Arrogate in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on July 22 stings trainer Doug O’Neill.

“He’s a nice horse, but you feel like he’s an up-and-comer going against LeBron James,” O’Neill said. “You hope for the best.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – McCraken was sent through another swift workout Thursday as the standout 3-year-old colt continues to prepare in the relative quiet of Churchill Downs for the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational.

Trainer Ian Wilkes said he is elated with how McCraken came out of his 2 1/4-length victory in the June 17 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill, where the colt will train until leaving a few days before the July 30 Haskell at Monmouth Park in New Jersey.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Chantal Sutherland will not ride until Wednesday’s opening day of the Del Mar summer meeting after bruising her leg in a frightening paddock accident at Los Alamitos on Thursday.

Sutherland was injured when her mount for the seventh race, Be a Lady, reared and knocked the rider down. Be a Lady stepped on Sutherland’s leg before the 4-year-old filly was brought under control.

Sutherland was taken from the paddock on a stretcher. She underwent X-rays at nearby Los Alamitos Medical Center, which were negative, according to her agent, Tommy Ball.

El Areeb, who won four consecutive races from November to February for trainer Cal Lynch, including the Grade 3 Withers and Grade 3 Jerome, will begin a new phase in his rehabilitation from a knee injury this week at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland.

The lineup for the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational picked up both Hence and Girvin in recent days, according to Monmouth Park officials.

The prospective field for the 1 1/8-mile Haskell now stands at nine despite dropping Always Dreaming from the list of probables. The Kentucky Derby winner is expected to compete in the July 29 Jim Dandy at Saratoga the day before the Haskell.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Last year, trainer Bob Baffert didn’t make his presence felt at Saratoga until late in the meet, when he sent Arrogate and Drefong across the country to win the Travers and King’s Bishop.

Baffert could make a much earlier entrance at Saratoga this summer.

Provided a scheduled workout at Santa Anita on Saturday goes well, Baffert plans to run Abel Tasman in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies on July 23.

ELMONT, N.Y. – I Still Miss You, the undefeated winner of the Astoria Stakes on June 8, will drop back in with New York-breds when she heads a field of five entered to run in Sunday’s $125,000 Lynbrook Stakes, the closing-day feature at Belmont Park.

The Lynbrook will go as race 4 on an 11-race card that begins at 1:30 p.m. Eastern.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Hawksmoor, the winner of the Grade 3 Beaugay and Grade 2 New York stakes, will miss the Grade 1 Diana next weekend at Saratoga after missing a week of training due to illness, trainer Arnaud Delacour said Thursday.

“She got sick last week, her blood work was not very good, so we gave her an easy week,” said Delacour, who last breezed Hawksmoor on July 1 at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland. “We’ll probably aim for the Beverly D.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – The Grade 3, $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes, the co-feature on Friday’s opening-day card at Saratoga, is expected to attract 2-year-old fillies from as many as five different locales.