ELMONT, N.Y. – Jockey Rajiv Maragh, sidelined for the last 15 months due to serious injuries suffered in a spill at Belmont in July 2015, rode a horse around the shed row for trainer Kiaran McLaughlin on Wednesday and Thursday mornings for about 10 to 15 minutes. He said he planned to ride one on the track Friday morning.

“Feels routine,” Maragh said. “Feels like the last 15 months never happened. I’m just back to where I was.”

Maragh, who fractured his back and ribs two years ago, has not set a timetable for his return to race-riding.

MIAMI – Veteran jockey Cornelio Velasquez will be going halfway around the world to ride for the next five months, but he still won’t be straying too far away from his big horse, the undefeated 2-year-old Three Rules.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A summer feel-good story – a 25-year-old rookie trainer winning the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante with a maiden filly owned by her father – took an unexpected turn this week at Santa Anita.

Trainer Shelbe Ruis and her father, Mick Ruis, have severed their business relationship, and 19 horses Ruis trained were transferred to trainer Craig Dollase, including Debutante winner Union Strike.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Aidan O’Brien-trained 3-year-old Idaho is the 5-2 morning-line favorite for the 79th running of the Grade 1 Canadian International at Woodbine on Sunday.

A Group 2 winner in England, Idaho drew post 3 and will be ridden by Ryan Moore, who has won the last three editions of the 12-furlong International. Idaho, who placed in both the Group 1 Epsom Derby and Group 1 Irish Derby in June, lost his rider in the stretch after stumbling in the Group 1 St. Leger Stakes on Sept. 10.

ARCADIA, Calif. – When Masochistic starts as one of the top contenders in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 5, it will be his first start in more than two months, so he had what trainer Ron Ellis called a “small dress rehearsal” on Thursday at Santa Anita. With Mike Smith aboard, Masochistic worked a quick half-mile from the gate in 45.20 seconds, the fastest time of 45 works at the distance.

“He was just going easy,” Ellis said. “Mike said his ears were pricked, and he was real relaxed. He came out of his last race great, and he runs well fresh.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Two of the leading candidates for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff worked minutes apart Thursday at Santa Anita while their trainers had fun monitoring each other’s activity.

Beholder worked a half-mile in 49 seconds, breezing, for Richard Mandella. Songbird worked five furlongs in 58.60 for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

Beholder’s work was planned for immediately after the 6:30 a.m. renovation break. Upon learning that Songbird also was scheduled to work, Mandella jokingly said, “Tell [Hollendorfer] we’ll meet up at the half.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Three flags displaying the colors of the most recent winners of the Queen’s Plate, Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, and Grade 1 Canadian International adorn the Woodbine infield. After winning the Queen’s Plate with Ken and Sarah Ramsey’s Sir Dudley Digges and the Woodbine Mile with Robert Masterson’s Tepin, jockey Julien Leparoux has a chance to sweep all three races in the same year when he rides World Approval for trainer Mark Casse in Sunday’s Canadian International.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Cavorting, a three-time Grade 1-winning filly who was pointing to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff next month at Santa Anita, has developed bruising of the cannon bones in her front ankles and has been retired, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin and Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Farms said Thursday.

McLaughlin said Cavorting appeared off in the last few mornings, and further evaluation revealed the problem. Cavorting had been expected to run in the Breeders' Cup Distaff on Nov. 5 at Santa Anita.

There is nothing whatsoever sexist about the Breeders’ Cup Mile, an open race that in its 32-year history has been won nine times by a filly or mare, and this year’s edition could attract a record number of female participants.

The last major stepping-stones toward the Nov. 5 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf come this weekend at Keeneland, Woodbine, and Ascot in Britain.

The 3-year-old Seventh Heaven, considered one of the top European hopes for the Filly and Mare Turf, is entered in Saturday’s QIPCO British Champions Fillies and Mares Stakes at Ascot, though as of Wednesday, trainer Aidan O’Brien had not decided whether she will run.