LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The heavy lifting is over for Runhappy after he was sent through his final breeze Sunday at Keeneland in preparation for his eagerly awaited return to racing Saturday at Churchill Downs.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bitzka, the undefeated winner of the Barretts Debutante at Los Alamitos on Sept. 17, is expected to be entered for Saturday’s $300,000 Chandelier Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Santa Anita.

Whether Bitzka starts depends on what kind of week she has under the direction of trainer John Sadler. With a quick return to racing after the Barretts Debutante, Sadler said he is taking a cautious approach to the filly’s participation.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer John Shirreffs rarely wins stakes with juveniles. Gormley will try to give Shirreffs his first stakes win with a 2-year-old in 13 years when he runs in Saturday’s $300,000 FrontRunner Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita.

Shirreffs, best known for his success with the older female Zenyatta from 2007-10, does not run many 2-year-olds. His last stakes win with a juvenile came when Hollywood Story won the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet in 2003.

New Jersey racing moves from Monmouth Park to the northern part of the state Wednesday evening as the Meadowlands begins a 14-day all-turf meet that runs through Oct. 19.

Racing will be held Wednesdays through Saturdays with a 7 p.m. Eastern first post. The final three cards of the meet, Monday through Wednesday, Oct. 17-19, will be daytime programs starting at 1:10.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Smart Mission’s 2-year-old half-sister, Mythical Mission, debuted with a victory over 6 1/2 furlongs on turf Friday, and that has trainer Malcolm Pierce encouraged about her future.

“She’s acting very professional and ran good,” he said. “We were all happy with the outcome. We’ve always liked her.”

Mythical Mission was set to make her debut in the Shady Well Stakes on Aug. 13, but steady rain and soft turf led her connections to scratch out of the race.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A notable absentee from last Saturday’s Grade 3 Ontario Colleen Stakes was the undefeated Smart Mission, who was on track to make her stakes debut in the race, won by 3-year-old filly division leader Caren.

Trainer Malcolm Pierce said Smart Mission was pulled up by her exercise rider during a routine gallop on entry day for the Ontario Colleen last Wednesday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Lexie Lou, Canada’s Horse of the Year in 2014, has been retired and will be entered in the Keeneland November breeding stock sale, trainer Mark Casse said.

Casse said his longtime Woodbine assistant, David Adams, had noticed that Lexie Lou was not exhibiting her normal behavior after winning the Victoriana Stakes on July 30.

After Accelerate won his first start in a graded stakes in Saturday’s $201,035 Los Alamitos Derby, thoughts turned as much to 2017 as to opportunities in the final months of this year.

“I think he can still improve,” trainer John Sadler said Sunday. “He’s undefeated around two turns and I think he’ll get better.”

ARCADIA, Calif. - Win the Space left trainer George Papaprodromou perplexed when the colt was pulled up in the stretch of the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 20.

“He didn’t fire,” Papaprodromou recalled on Sunday. “We did every test we could do to find out about it. It wasn’t his day.”

When no injury surfaced, Win the Space was put back in serious training in early September. The 4-year-old Win the Space had a smooth month in September, and will start in his third Grade 1 race of 2016 in Saturday’s $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita.

Connect's victory in the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby on Saturday not only further confuses the 3-year-old male divisional rankings, it poses trainer Chad Brown with a tricky decision regarding where to run him next.

Connect took a big step forward in his development by holding Gun Runner at bay through the final furlong of the 1 1/8-mile Pennsylvania Derby, and quite probably we haven’t seen his best race yet. But with only six starts under his belt, would the Breeders' Cup Classic against older runners be a case of too much, too soon?