Jockey David Flores, a winner of more than 3,500 races, will ride for the first time since last September in Thursday’s fifth race at Belmont Park.

Flores, 48, has won 156 graded stakes, including three Breeders' Cup races. A top rider in California for many years, Flores has won riding titles at Santa Anita, Del Mar, and Fairplex. His mounts have purse earnings in excess of $151 million.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gary Stevens will make a rare appearance here Friday. The Hall of Famer rider is named aboard Mac Daddy Mac for trainer Kathy Ritvo in the featured eighth race, a six-furlong allowance/optional claimer for Florida-breds.

Mac Daddy Mac has not started since finishing second with Stevens aboard in the Grade 3 Bob Hope last November at Del Mar.  

Stevens won the Sunshine Millions Classic here for Ritvo aboard Mucho Macho Man in 2014. His most notable local victory came in the 1999 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile aboard Anees for trainer Alex Hassinger Jr.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Brad Cox will attempt to make his former claimer Spelling Again a two-time Grade 2 winner when he ships her to town from her home base at Churchill Downs for Saturday’s $250,000 Princess Rooney.

Recruiting Ready, who won his career debut in smashing fashion May 28 at Pimlico, is one of six 2-year-olds expected for the Grade 3, $100,000 Bashford Manor Stakes on closing night of the spring/summer meet Saturday.

Recruiting Ready, from the first crop of Algorithms, rolled to a 10 1/4-length victory in a maiden special weight at Pimlico. He got his 4 1/2 furlongs in 51.78 seconds, just 0.28 seconds off the track mark of 51.50 established by Countess Diana on June 6, 1997. Countess Diana would go on to be a multiple Grade 1 winner and the champion 2-year-old filly of 1997.

Jockey Channing Hill won his 1,000th career race last Friday at Churchill Downs, piloting the 5-year-old mare Shut the Gate to win a claiming race for trainer Chris Hartman.

Through Sunday, Hill had won 1,001 races from 9,308 starts, with 1,046 seconds and 1,160 thirds, for $40.5 million in mount earnings. He has won 16 graded stakes since 2003, with the most recent coming aboard Pleuven in the Grade 2 Wise Dan Stakes on June 18 at Churchill Downs. His lone Grade 1 victory came aboard First Defence in the 2008 Forego Stakes at Saratoga.

Heading into her first major engagement of the summer in the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Oaks, Catch a Glimpse shows no ill effects from what has already been a very successful year.

The 2015 Canadian Horse of the Year worked five furlongs in 59 seconds flat at Keeneland last Saturday, the fastest of 34 works at the distance. It was the second consecutive bullet work for the filly, who worked a half in 48 seconds, the fastest of 54 works, the prior week.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association has released the invitation lists for the $1.25 million Belmont Derby and $1 million Oaks.

Fourteen horses have been invited to participate in each of the Grade 1, 1 1/4-mile turf races scheduled for July 9 at Belmont Park. According to NYRA officials, all of the horses invited to the Derby have paid the $7,500 entry fee that is due by Wednesday. Twelve of the Oaks invitees are paid up, while the decisions of the other two are pending.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The 157th running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate is Sunday, and as many as 15 could make a run at the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown.

The probable field is led by Plate Trial winner Amis Gizmo, who will come into the Queen’s Plate with a record of five wins from six starts for trainer Josie Carroll and owner/breeder Ivan Dalos. Amis Gizmo breezed five furlongs in one minute flat under jockey Luis Contreras in his final work for the Queen’s Plate last Friday.

Trainer Don Pleterski was injured before the eighth race at Fort Erie on Sunday after a horse got loose during the warm-up and crashed into a fence near the finish line. Pleterski, who was running Cool Luke in the race, was taken to the hospital.

The eighth, which was the final race on the card, was canceled. The track also canceled training for Monday morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Firing Line, second in the 2015 Kentucky Derby, is likely to make his 2016 debut in the $200,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar on July 20.

Trainer Simon Callaghan has targeted the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at 1 1/16 miles as the launch of a campaign through the second half of the year designed to have Firing Line in races such as the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 20, and the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Nov. 5.