Seth Klarman is one of the most successful investors in the world, so much so that he’s earned the moniker “The Next Warren Buffett.” In racing, the stock of his Klaravich Stables also is on the rise and could potentially peak at this weekend’s Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. – When Art Sherman went to the Kentucky Derby as the exercise rider for Swaps in 1955, he rode in a railroad boxcar. Now, six decades later, he has jetted to places like Dubai and London as the celebrated trainer of a celebrated horse, California Chrome. But as that run nears its end, Sherman reflected on what California Chrome has meant to him, marveling at the good fortune that came his way so late in his training career.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Metaboss, a longshot entrant in Saturday’s $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita, was retired on Wednesday after sustaining a sesamoid injury while galloping on the turf course, trainer Phil D’Amato said.

Metaboss was pulled up and vanned back to D’Amato’s stable. The diagnosis was made within an hour.

“He’s fractured a piece of his right sesamoid,” D’Amato said. “He’ll have a long life ahead of him, but he won’t be racing anymore. It’s not a life-threatening injury, but it is career-ending.”

Laurel Park will hold Claiming Crown Preview Day on Sunday, which will produce starters for the $1.1 million Claiming Crown on Dec. 3 at Laurel’s sister track, Gulfstream Park.

The nine starter stakes at Laurel will offer total purses of $400,000. The winners of the Claiming Crown Preview races will earn fees-paid berths in the corresponding Gulfstream races and will receive free shipping to Florida.

ARCADIA, Calif. – For British trainer Michael Stoute, Ulysses is a most unlikely entrant in Saturday’s $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita. Ulysses was second in the Group 3 Winter Hill Stakes at Windsor Racecourse in England on Aug. 27 in his most recent start, a far cry from the established form of Stoute’s past winners of the BC Turf.

Stoute has won the race four times, with Pilsudski in 1996, Kalanisi in 2000, and Conduit in 2008 and 2009.

ARCADIA, Calif. – David Hofmans, trying to pull off one of the great training achievements in Breeders’ Cup history, gave Melatonin a sharp final work Wednesday morning at Santa Anita in preparation for the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Saturday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – If there were wagering on which jockey will earn the Bill Shoemaker Award for outstanding rider at the Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita, Mike Smith would have to be considered the favorite. The all-time winningest jockey in Breeders’ Cup history (22 wins, $28.9 million in mount earnings), Smith has such top horses as Songbird, Arrogate, and Masochistic among his nine BC rides.

The recently concluded Parx Fall Festival resulted in improved field size, better racing, and a bump in handle, but it is not a certainty to be brought back in 2017.

This was the second year Parx has held the festival, which ran Oct. 1-25.

In 2015, the festival went for eight weeks. It began on Smarty Jones Stakes Day, Aug. 29, included Pennsylvania Derby Day, and continued until the third week in October. Five $150,000 stakes were added to the schedule, and purses averaged approximately $500,000 per day.

Last Saturday at Belmont Park, Jose Ortiz won both divisions of a maiden race for 2-year-olds, and the horse he wasn’t even scheduled to ride may turn out to be racing’s next big star.

That’s the type of year it has been for Ortiz, who in 2016 has escaped the shadow of his older brother Irad, and like Takaful – the aforementioned 2-year-old colt whom Ortiz picked up at the draw – has emerged as potentially racing’s next big riding star.

Gunnevera, winner of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special, and Pat On the Back, a New York-bred stakes winner, were among 20 horses pre-entered Tuesday in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot. The mile and a sixteenth race for 2-year-olds will be run Nov. 19.