HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With the richest, and last, race of California Chrome’s career a week away in the $12 million Pegasus World Cup here at Gulfstream Park, trainer Art Sherman and his son and assistant, Alan, were so focused on that goal that the fact California Chrome recorded the final workout of his career on Saturday morning didn’t fully hit them.

 Though Alan Sherman said he thought a bit about it Friday night -- “It is weird,” he said – the upcoming week had him energized.

 “We could win two Eclipse Awards and a $12 million race in a week,” he said.

Perry Ouzts, the 62-year-old jockey who ranks 11th all time among North American jockeys with 6,715 career victories, was fortunate to escape with no more than body soreness after being unseated from his mount, Toston, a little more than a quarter-mile into Thursday’s sixth race at Turfway Park.

The incident occurred entering the turn of the six-furlong race when Toston unexpectedly propped, sending Ouzts tumbling over his mount. With Toston last at the time, there were no trailing horses to trample the rider.

Boyd Gaming announced Thursday that it has completed $45 million in expansion and improvement projects at Delta Downs. The expansion is led by a 167-room hotel tower and a restaurant that overlooks the track.

Boyd is the parent company of the Vinton, La., racetrack, hotel, and casino.

Texas Chrome, the winner of last year’s Grade 3 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs and the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park, will be honored as the Texas Thoroughbred Association’s horse of the year during a June 24 banquet, the organization announced. The event will be held at Lone Star Park near Dallas.

Weast Hill will put his perfect Oaklawn Park record on the line Sunday, when he attempts to win his sixth race there. He goes in a six-furlong allowance for Arkansas-breds that drew a full field of 12.

Weast Hill won all three of his starts at Oaklawn last year and in 2015 launched his career at the track with a maiden special weight score and a victory in the $75,000 Rainbow. He will be making his first start since May on Sunday, and the time off was by design, said trainer Brad Cox.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Turco Bravo, a two-time winner of the Stymie Stakes over Aqueduct’s inner track, is gearing up for a return to the races and a bid for a Stymie three-peat.

On Thursday, Turco Bravo worked a mile in 1:46.48. He went his first three furlongs in 43.99 seconds and got his last quarter in 24.34 over Belmont Park’s training track. He was credited with a five-furlong workout in 1:02.49.

“Every eighth was faster than the one before,” trainer Gary Contessa said. “I love seeing that. We’re not far away.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Paulassilverlining, a finalist for the Eclipse Award in the female sprint division, hasn’t worked since her victory in the Garland of Roses Stakes at Aqueduct on Dec. 10. Still, trainer Michelle Nevin said Thursday that she is keeping the Grade 2, $300,000 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel on Feb. 18 very much in mind for the stakes-winning mare.

“It’s a possibility,” Nevin said. “Over the next two weeks, I’ll know what I’m doing.”

Nevin said that following the Garland of Roses, “it was time to give her a break.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Though Green Gratto is giving his connections signs that he will be ready to run again sooner rather than later, trainer Gaston Grant said Friday that he likely will wait to run the Grade 3 Toboggan winner until the Grade 3, $200,000 Tom Fool Handicap at Aqueduct on March 11.

Lady Aurelia, a two-time overseas stakes winner and a finalist for champion 2-year-old filly of 2016, is being aimed for another European summer campaign after kicking off her 2017 season this spring at Keeneland, trainer Wesley Ward said Thursday.

Ward, speaking by phone from his primary winter base in Florida, where he is already gearing up his 2-year-olds with swimming and long gallops, said Lady Aurelia will get her early preparation this year at Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Training Center just outside of Ocala, Fla., and join his stable later.

Mo Tom is up to five furlongs in morning workouts as he prepares for his 4-year-old debut, which is likely to come Feb. 25 in the Grade 3 Mineshaft at Fair Grounds.

Mo Tom was one of the leading 3-year-olds last winter at Fair Grounds, winning the Lecomte Stakes and finishing a very troubled third in the Risen Star Stakes and fourth in the Louisiana Derby. Mo Tom ran eighth in the Kentucky Derby, decisively won the Ohio Derby, and then lost his form and wound up his 3-year-old season by finishing fifth in the Super Derby.