Owing to an injury to his right hand plus six days of suspensions, jockey Rafael Bejarano will not ride until Nov. 26, which makes Flavien Prat the favorite to win the riding title at the Del Mar fall meet. Prat wasted no time jumping out to the lead, winning four races the first three days of the meet.

Bejarano and Prat tied for leading rider during the summer meet here, which marked the fifth straight summer Bejarano had either won the title outright, or shared it. He also won the title here last fall.

While jockey Victor Espinoza has had his ride on California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic picked over since the race, Sherman said Espinoza has done so well on California Chrome over the years that they’ll be a team right through the $12 million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park.

“I’d never take him off for one race,” said Sherman, who admitted a number of jockey agents had phoned him inquiring if a spot on California Chrome might open.

“When you lose, you’re always looking to blame someone,” Sherman said. “He’s ridden so many good races on him.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – California Chrome has come out of his runner-up effort in last week’s Breeders’ Cup Classic in such good shape that trainer Art Sherman said he’ll need to give him a workout next Saturday as the horse begins preparations for the $12 million Pegasus World Cup on Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park.

“He came out of it good. He’s a remarkable horse,” Sherman said Sunday morning at Del Mar. “I’ll give him an easy half next Saturday. I’ve got to do something with him. He’s pretty strong.”

Champion mare Tepin will make a trip to Dubai, not Hong Kong, trainer Mark Casse said Saturday. 

Tepin's connections flirted with running her in Hong Kong after Tepin finished second to Tourist in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita last weekend. Tepin owner Robert Masterson said afterward he was seriously considering running Tepin in the Hong Kong Mile on Dec. 11. Masterson said racing needs to showcase its stars, and he thought it would be nice for a new audience to see Tepin. In June Tepin went to England and beat males in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Jockey Rafael Bejarano, with an injury to his right hand and six days of suspensions, will not ride again until Nov. 26, his agent, Tora Yamaguchi, said Saturday morning.

Bejarano on Friday was given a second three-day careless-riding suspension; the dates are assigned to this Del Mar meet. There is one free day, Nov. 19, amid those six days, but Yamaguchi said he and Bejarano decided it wouldn't be worth coming back for that one day while recuperating from his hand injury. So Bejarano will be out for the next two weeks.

DEL MAR, Calif. – On the first day of Del Mar’s newly configured pick six, which incorporates a separate carryover for a single winning ticket, no one could pick five winners on Friday, let alone six, leading to two carryovers into Saturday’s card.

The carryover in the general pick six pool is $55,093. Another $11,805 is in the jackpot carryover pool, reserved for any single winning ticket.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Rafael Bejarano has won riding titles at six of the last seven meetings conducted at Del Mar, but his chances of capturing the title at the fall meet that opened Friday were dealt a setback owing to a hand injury and a suspension, which effectively remove him from the first five days of the meet.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Runhappy will not run in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap on Nov. 25 at Churchill Downs while owner Jim McIngvale and trainer Laura Wohlers mull their options with the 2015 sprint champion.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Jose Valdivia Jr. underwent surgery Friday at University Hospital in Louisville for fractures of his left tibia and fibula after being injured in a scary multiple-horse spill during the fourth race Thursday at Churchill Downs.

Renee Valdivia, the jockey’s wife, said a rod and screws were to be inserted to stabilize the damage in the lower leg in what doctors described as routine procedure. Valdivia also has a very minor fracture in an upper vertebra that will heal on its own, she added.

“We feel very fortunate it’s nothing worse,” she said.

Stellar Wind, who defeated Beholder in two Grade 1 races before a slow-start fourth in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff, will return to racing sooner in 2017 than she did in 2016, trainer John Sadler said this week.

Stellar Wind, 2 for 4 in 2016, did not make her first start of this season until June.

“She’ll come back sooner, I would think April,” Sadler said. “And she’s going to be one of the ones.”