VINTON, La. – Sunny Ridge, who finished a fast-closing second in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot last Saturday, closed out his 2-year-old season in the race, trainer Jason Servis said Wednesday.

Sunny Ridge, who was beaten a neck by Exaggerator in the Jackpot, won the Sapling Stakes in September at Monmouth and was the runner-up in the Grade 1 Champagne in October at Belmont. Servis said Sunny Ridge came out of the race in excellent condition, with plans for the horse, who races for breeder Dennis Drazin, to be determined. Sunny Ridge is being freshened in Kentucky.

MIAMI – Trainer Todd Pletcher appears to have the one to beat in Friday’s fifth race, an optional $40,000 claiming race on turf, with the 3-year-old filly Aljalela, who comes off a third-place finish in the Cellars Shiraz Stakes.

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MIAMI – As has been the case since 2-year-old racing began here back in the spring, trainer Stanley Gold and owner and breeder Fred Brei’s Jacks or Better Farm will be in the spotlight for the six juvenile stakes Saturday at Gulfstream Park West. Four of the stakes will be run on dirt and two over turf.

Saturday’s 11-race card is the final one of the Gulfstream Park West meet. Racing will resume in south Florida at Gulfstream Park the following Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A full gate of 14 2-year-olds has been entered in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, which once again will share the Stars of Tomorrow spotlight with its Grade 2 sister, the Golden Rod Stakes, on an outstanding Saturday program at Churchill Downs.

The twin stakes, each worth $200,000 and set for 1 1/16 miles, anchor a 12-race card restricted entirely to 2-year-olds, continuing an end-of-meet tradition dating to 2005. The Golden Rod drew nine fillies.

MIAMI – The $1.05 million Sunshine Millions and the $2.9 million Florida Sire Stakes series are the highlights of a 2016 stakes program for Florida-breds worth $4.5 million, according to a release from Gulfstream Park, which partnered with the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association and the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association on the stakes schedule.

Alert Bay, a 4-year-old gelding, has amassed a collection of stakes wins throughout the West in the last year for owner Peter Redekop of British Columbia and trainer Blaine Wright. Along the way, Alert Bay has won stakes at Hastings Park in Vancouver, Zia Park in New Mexico, and at Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita.

Del Mar might be next on his list of stakes-winning venues.

Parx Racing has added a Friday card to Thanksgiving week. First post is 12:25 p.m. Eastern.

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The two best races on the nine-race program are race 6, a second-level allowance for Pennsylvania-breds, and race 8, a third-level optional-claiming race. Both are at six furlongs.

Lexington Street, the impressive winner of the Maryland Million Lassie on Oct. 17, is scheduled to run in a first-level optional-claiming race for 2-year-old fillies at Laurel Park on Friday.

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Phlash Phelps’s 3- and 4-year-old seasons have been polar opposites. At 3, he couldn’t win, and at 4, he has never lost.

Phlash Phelps scored his biggest win of the season Oct. 17 in the Maryland Million Turf. He now will be given the winter off by Laurel Park-based horseman Rodney Jenkins.

“I’m going to try to have a nice campaign with him next year,” Jenkins said.

E Dubai’s Humor was one of the more promising 2-year-old fillies in Maryland last fall. Her recent win at Laurel Park indicates she now may be one of the better 3-year-olds in the state.

E Dubai’s Humor’s last four starts have come on November afternoons at Laurel. Two of those races were last year, when she won a first-level optional-claiming race by almost four lengths and then finished a close second in the $100,000 Smart Halo.