ELMONT, N.Y. – Silvestre de Sousa, the leading jockey in Europe, is planning to move his tack to New York in late October, according to Seth Benzel, the former trainer who will serve as de Sousa’s agent.

Benzel said de Sousa was planning to come to the U.S. earlier this year, but he had a chance to be the United Kingdom’s leading rider when Ryan Moore was injured earlier in the summer.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The unbeaten New York-bred She’s All Ready is under consideration for the Grade 1, $400,000 Frizette Stakes here Oct. 3.

“It will depend on how she trains and what the prospective field looked like and its quality,” trainer Jimmy Ryerson said.

She’s All Ready, a daughter of Girolamo, is 2 for 2, with both of her starts against statebred company at Saratoga. She won a 5 1/2-furlong maiden race Aug. 7 by 8 1/4 lengths and came back to win the Seeking the Ante Stakes going 6 1/2 furlongs on Aug. 28.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Lubash and Kharafa have combined to win the last three runnings of the Ashley T. Cole Stakes for New York-breds, and both are expected to be in the starting gate when that race is run for the 40th time next Sunday at Belmont Park.

One horse who won’t be in the gate with them is King Kreesa, who is eschewing the New York-bred turf scene to take a Grade 1 swing in the $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland on Oct. 3.

“We’ll give him the opportunity to see where we’re at,” trainer David Donk said Friday.

BOSSIER CITY, La. – Trainer Ralph Irwin has quietly built a reputation as one of the best horsemen on the grounds at Louisiana Downs, and his work with The Pickett Factor will place him in the spotlight on Saturday. The horse is the morning-line favorite for the Grade 2, $400,000 Super Derby and represents Irwin’s first starter in the marquee race at his home track.

“The horse deserves the opportunity to be in there,” Irwin said. “He’s a real blessing. We’re just riding on his coattails.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – After a terrific Saratoga meet where he won 7 races from 19 starters, trainer Barclay Tagg was back at Belmont Park on Thursday making fall plans for many of those runners.

Three of Tagg’s winners were 2-year-olds: Realm, Tale of S’avall and Highland Sky. Realm, who got the meet rolling with a 1 3/4-length victory July 25, came out of the race with a few minor issues and has only recently resumed training.

Tale of S’avall, a son of Tale of Ekati who won a Travers Day maiden race by two lengths, is being pointed to the Grade 1 Champagne on Oct. 3.

Seven stakes, including the Grade 3 Berkeley Handicap and four stakes for 2-year-old runners, are scheduled to be conducted at the Golden Gate Fields fall meeting, which runs from Oct. 22-Dec. 20. The stakes schedule still needs to be approved by the Thoroughbred Owners of California.

The $100,000 Berkeley is scheduled Sunday, Nov. 29 at 1 1/16 miles on the main track.

Two-year-olds begin the path to the Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby with the $50,000-added Golden Nugget at six furlongs on Nov. 7, and continue in the $75,000 Gold Rush at one mile on Dec. 5.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin still needs to talk with the principals of Godolphin Racing, but all indications are that Frosted is likely to run in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 19.

Frosted worked four furlongs in 47.95 seconds on Thursday over the main track at Saratoga. Frosted worked in company with Cavallucci, finishing two lengths ahead of that horse at the wire while going his final quarter in 24.51 seconds. Frosted galloped out five furlongs in 1:00.99, per Saratoga clockers.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The accomplished New York invader Lea has been made the 5-2 morning-line favorite for Sunday’s $1 million Woodbine Mile.

Lea drew post 10 and is trained by Bill Mott, who won the inaugural running of the Grade 1 turf event in 1997 with Geri. Joel Rosario will ride Lea, a Grade 1 winner on dirt who hasn’t raced on turf since 2013, when he placed in Grade 2 stakes company behind Wise Dan. Wise Dan, a two-time Horse of the Year, was being pointed for this race before he was retired on Monday due to a tendon injury.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Craig MacPherson will try to win his second British Columbia Derby on Sunday. If he wins the Grade 3, $250,000 race with Bluegrass Angus, it will be a little sweeter than his first victory with Second City.