Three Rules, undefeated in five career starts, blazed five furlongs in 57.64 seconds Friday morning at Gulfstream Park in his last serious move before the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita next Saturday.

With a strong wind at his back, Three Rules, under exercise rider Patrick Harris, was timed by track clockers in fractions of 21.80 for the quarter-mile and 32.80 for three furlongs, and he galloped out five furlongs in 1:12.40. It was the fastest of 21 moves at the distance, with the second-fastest time 57.88 seconds.

All-sources live handle at Northlands Park was down from last year at the 2016 meet, which concluded last Saturday.

The main reason for the decline, $18.9 million this year compared to $21.4 million in 2015, was six fewer days of racing this year.

The average over the 69 days was $274,337, off by 4 percent compared to 2015, when $286,337 was bet on a daily basis.

Another factor was the decline in average starters per race, 6.82 compared to 7.20 in 2015.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Runhappy, last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner and the nation’s champion sprinter, has had a busy schedule since arriving here at Santa Anita for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile, to be run next Friday. He goes out to train well before dawn every morning, and every day has spent time at a nearby farm, taking advantage of outdoor paddocks, a bit of grass on which to graze, and sand pits in which to roll, something he can do in one facility at his home base in Kentucky.

ARCADIA, Calif. – With a five-furlong work in 1:00.40 here on Friday, La Force is being prepared as if she will start in the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Santa Anita on Nov. 4.

It may take the whole weekend to determine whether it was a necessary dress rehearsal.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Forgive Bob Baffert if he has other things on his mind, such as slaying California Chrome in the Breeders’ Cup Classic with a 3-year-old named Arrogate.

Still, there are other Baffert horses for other Breeders’ Cup races, as evidenced by all the multi-tasking the Hall of Fame trainer undertakes every morning at Santa Anita. Two of the younger Baffert horses, Noted and Quoted and American Gal, will be in the starting gate for the $2 million BC Juvenile Fillies, the first of the nine BC events here next Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Tepin put in her final maintenance move in advance of her Breeders’ Cup Mile defense on Friday morning, leading a bevy of workers for trainer Mark Casse in the pre-dawn darkness at Churchill Downs.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Based on how well she trained the past month and an impressive workout Friday morning at Santa Anita, Stellar Wind will not bounce in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff.

Stellar Wind worked six furlongs Friday, and she could not have looked better.

She worked soon after the 6:30 a.m. renovation, broke off two lengths behind graded stakes winner Hard Aces, collared him in the lane, and finished strongly. Stellar Wind galloped out with run and acts like she is ready to reproduce the career-best 110 Beyer Speed Figure she earned last out.

Churchill Downs Inc. had net income of $8.7 million in the third quarter of 2016, approximately double the company’s net income the same quarter last year, according to financial statements released Thursday.

Net revenue for the company was $303.4 million in the quarter, up 8.4 percent compared with revenue of $279.8 million in last year’s third quarter. Operating expenses jumped 3.3 percent, to $276.6 million.

ELMONT, N.Y. - There will be a pick 6 carryover of $186,419 into Friday’s card at Belmont Park after the wager was not hit for the third consecutive card Thursday.

Double-digit-priced winners True Charm ($22.80) and Angry Moon ($15) left only three horses covered entering the last leg of Thursday’s sequence. But none of the three were around at the finish as Magsamelia ($21.20) slipped through an opening along the rail under Pablo Fragoso to take the finale. There had been a two-card carryover of $82,266 entering the day and an additional $182,798 was wagered on Thursday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Frostmourne was no match for Oscar Performance in the Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes four weeks ago at Belmont Park. While Oscar Performance heads to Southern California as one of the choices for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf, Frostmourne finds a bit softer spot in Saturday’s $100,000 Awad Stakes at Belmont Park.

Frostmourne was one of nine juvenile males entered in the Awad, scheduled for a mile over the Widener turf course.