LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It’s hardly possible to elicit a more bittersweet reaction to victory than in the eighth race Saturday at Churchill, where Mesoma outfought two rivals to win a $57,000 allowance in a three-horse photo.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse is closing in on his ninth consecutive Woodbine training title, and as the 2015 meet winds down, plans are taking shape for next season.

When it comes to early prospects for one of Canada’s biggest races, the $1 million Queen’s Plate for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, Casse already appears to have a number of legitimate threats, including a trio for the Conquest Stables of Ernie Semersky and Dory Newell.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ron Moquett is at it again.

Last year at Churchill Downs, Moquett sent out a pair of 2-year-olds to win maiden races – Far Right and War Story – and both wound up in the Kentucky Derby in May.

No one knows the ultimate destinies of Whitmore and Piracy, but one thing is certain: Sending them out to win their career debuts over the weekend at Churchill was an absolute blast for Moquett.

The baton was passed from California Chrome in 2014 to American Pharoah in 2015. American Pharoah has been retired from racing, but California Chrome has returned to serious training, with designs on getting that baton back in 2016.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Big World, who won the Grade 3 Tempted Stakes here Wednesday, will get the remainder of the year off and point to a 3-year-old campaign, trainer Tony Dutrow said Friday.

“She’s run four times; that’s enough,” Dutrow said.

Dutrow said Big World will get 45 days in Ocala, Fla., without a saddle on her back and then go back into training in Ocala for another 30 to 45 days before joining his stable at Oaklawn Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Annual Report, the winner of the Grade 2 Futurity at Belmont going six furlongs, will stretch out in distance in the Grade 2, $200,000 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Nov. 28 at Churchill Downs.

Annual Report, a son of Harlan’s Holiday, worked four furlongs in 49.79 seconds, with a final quarter of 24.10, over the Belmont Park main track on Friday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – When jockey Aaron Gryder came to the East Coast at the beginning of the fall, it wasn’t with the intent of returning to ride on the New York Racing Association circuit, where he won four meet titles in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Gryder’s main purpose was to ride at Parx, where a few California-based owners had sent horses for the super-inflated purses Parx was offering during its fall meet. On dark days, however, Gryder would drive to New York, talk with some trainers, and get on a few horses in the morning.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Jockey Iggy Puglisi was expected to be back in action Sunday after being injured in a starting-gate accident Thursday. Following the incident, he went to the hospital for X-rays of an ankle.

“The foot’s not broken, but it’s pretty sore,” agent Bill Sadoo said Friday.

Sadoo said Puglisi would not ride Friday and had no mounts scheduled for Saturday, but he was expected to be ready for Sunday, when he is scheduled to ride West Mid in the second race.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Owners Dean and Patti Reeves and trainer Kathy Ritvo have teamed up for a private purchase of the 2-year-old colt Mac Daddy Mac, who won his debut Oct. 24 at Santa Anita and is being prepared for the Grade 3, $100,000 Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar on Nov. 14, said Ritvo.

“He’s a nice horse,” she said. “He broke his maiden impressively.”

Ritvo will remain in California through the Bob Hope.

DEL MAR, Calif. – On Sunday, trainer Richard Baltas will send out Del Mar specialist Kiss At Midnight and veteran mare Wild in the Saddle in hopes of claiming the featured $100,000 Betty Grable Stakes, a seven-furlong race for older California-bred females.

Kiss At Midnight has won both of her starts at Del Mar, including one via disqualification. She has crossed the wire first or second in her last four starts going 6 1/2 or seven furlongs.

“I think she’ll love seven-eighths,” said Baltas. “That’s her distance. She’ll make one run.”