DEL MAR, Calif. – Om will run, but Obviously won’t, so there will be no rematch of the 1-2 finishers from the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in the Grade 2, $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap on Saturday at Del Mar.

Charles Town will run 23 stakes in 2017 – the same number as this year – but has pared $215,000 from its schedule.

The purse of the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic, the West Virginia track’s signature race, will remain $1.25 million. The purse of the meet’s other graded race, the Grade 3 Charles Town Oaks, has been trimmed from $350,000 to $300,000.

The Charles Town Classic card, on April 22, and Oaks Day, Sept. 23, will each offer an extra stakes this year.

Following the Thanksgiving Day card at Laurel Park, jockey Angel Cruz will head to Tampa Bay Downs for the winter.

Cruz, 21, grew up in West Virginia. He began his career at Charles Town but has ridden extensively in Maryland and New York. He was an Eclipse Award finalist for top apprentice rider in 2014.

Cruz will be represented at Tampa Bay Downs by Chris Pipito, his agent the past nine months.

Construction is set to begin on a Laurel Park backstretch building that will contain 85 new stalls, 40 offices, and 150 dormitory rooms, according to Sal Sinatra, president of the Maryland Jockey Club.

The new building, which will border Route 198, the main thoroughfare on the south side of Laurel Park, is budgeted at $6 million and is expected to be completed by July, according to Sinatra.

“The stalls are going to be made of mahogany and will be Amish built,” Sinatra said. “We’re glad to be able to offer our backstretch workers new dorms.”

Parx Racing-based trainer Richie Vega, who emigrated from his native Cuba to the United States in 1980, is one of a handful of Mid-Atlantic horsemen nearing milestone victories.

Vega, 54, will begin this weekend’s races at Parx with 999 career wins.

“My family always had horses, my uncle was a jockey,” Vega said. “My father, Anibal, worked with horses in Florida, and that’s how I got into it. I started as a hotwalker.”

Vega left Florida for Pennsylvania in 1984, the year Keystone Racetrack was renamed Philadelphia Park. He took out his trainer’s license in 1992.

Golden Gate will offer 12 stakes worth $1,025,000 during its winter-spring meet. Six of the races are for 3-year-olds or 3-year-old fillies, including the meet’s signature race, the Grade 3, $200,000 El Camino Real Derby on Feb. 18.

The other stakes for 3-year-olds are the $100,000 California Derby on Jan. 21; $50,000-added California Oaks for fillies on Feb. 11; $100,000 Campanile for fillies and $100,000 Silky Sullivan on April 30; and $75,000 Alcatraz on May 14.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer spent the early part of Thanksgiving week making decisions.

First, he had to decide which of the three 2-year-old fillies that he nominated would run in Friday’s $50,000-added Golden Gate Debutante. The answer was all three: stakes-placed Doowop Shedoo, recent maiden winner Nightengale Miss, and maiden speedster Americana.

When Faith Taylor took over operations for Lloyd Mason when he retired from training, she won with her first starter, which came Aug. 5 at Santa Rosa. She’s continued to do well, having won with four of her 28 starters, including two of her last three, with a return on investment of $2.39.

That first win by Taylor came with Madame Clouet, who has won twice more for Taylor, including a victory at Golden Gate on Nov. 13. Last Sunday she won a maiden race with More Power to Him.

“Everything’s going well,” she said. “It’s kind of tough getting horses in sometimes.”

Jockey Chris DeCarlo hopes to return to riding this weekend after escaping serious injuries in an ugly-looking spill Saturday at Aqueduct.

On Monday, DeCarlo said he had soreness in his left calf and in his lower back but structurally there was no other damage from the incident, which occurred in the sixth race when his mount, Enchanteresse, appeared to clip heels with the pacesetting Sycee entering the far turn of a second-level turf allowance race.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A field of nine is expected to be entered Wednesday for Saturday’s $500,000 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct, the last Grade 1 race of the year on the New York Racing Association circuit.

The latest runner to commit to the race is Divining Rod, a graded stakes winner in 2015 who has won two of three starts in 2016 after returning from a layoff of more than a year.