LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dale Romans can’t remember a Thanksgiving without the racetrack. Even as a young boy growing up in Louisville, he would come to Churchill Downs from his nearby home with his father, trainer Jerry Romans.

That’s the main reason taking part in the traditional Thanksgiving feature, the Falls City Handicap, is so meaningful to Romans, who won the race in 2004 with Halory Leigh and 2012 with Afleeting Lady.

“It’s a special time with the family and all,” said Romans.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dortmund and Effinex were among the standouts expected in the entry box Tuesday at Churchill Downs, whose 21-day fall meet will hit its apex Friday with the 142nd running of the Grade 1 Clark Handicap.

Dortmund, the “other” top 3-year-old in the Bob Baffert barn this year, was scheduled to arrive here Tuesday from California with stablemate Hoppertunity in advance of the $500,000 Clark, a 1 1/8-mile race in which the colt is among the highweights.

A few weeks ago, Acceptance was being prepared for morning exercise when trainer and exercise rider Kenny Black stepped back and took a long look at the colt.

“I went to get on him, and I stopped,” Black recalled last weekend. “I could see how much this colt has grown. It’s like your children. You don’t notice it when you see them all the time, but when you’re away for a couple of days, you notice it.”

Thanksgiving weekend is the biggest weekend of the Golden Gate Fields fall meet. On Saturday, Code Warrior will try to complete a sweep of the meeting’s 2-year-old sprint stakes in the $50,000-added Golden Gate Debutante. On Sunday, G. G. Ryder will try to complete a sweep of Golden Gate’s three graded stakes for older runners in the Grade 3, $100,000 Berkeley Handicap.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Nyquist, the undefeated winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Keeneland on Oct. 31 and a top contender for the 2016 Triple Crown, will resume light training in coming days, said trainer Doug O’Neill.

Nyquist has been based at O’Neill’s Santa Anita stable in recent weeks and has been hand-walked up to three times a day. On Sunday, O’Neill said Nyquist will be tack-walked at the barn this week and may not be far from a return to racetrack training.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Chantal Sutherland, who has not ridden since July 2014, is planning a comeback in December.

Sutherland, 39, has been exercising horses at Los Alamitos and Santa Anita for the last two months and said Sunday in the Santa Anita barn area she is targeting a full-time return to riding Dec. 26, opening day of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting. Sutherland said she may ride sparingly at Los Alamitos during that track’s winter meeting from Dec. 3-20 to regain fitness.

VINTON, La. – Jet Black Magic, who was a 4 1/4-length winner of the Grade 3, $400,000 Delta Downs Princess for 2-year-old fillies Saturday, emerged from the race in good order, trainer Bret Calhoun said Sunday.

"She really looked good coming down the lane, striding strong," said Calhoun.

Calhoun said plans going forward are to be determined for Jet Black Magic.

"We've got options with her," said Calhoun, who trains Jet Black Magic for Carl Moore. "We haven't made plans yet. We could point for some of the 3-year-old [filly] races at Fair Grounds or Oaklawn."

VINTON, La. – Exaggerator hit the Jackpot on Saturday at Delta Downs and was headed back home to Santa Anita on Sunday. Trainer Keith Desormeaux said the horse wrapped up his 2-year-old season with his win in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot.

Exaggerator had a productive campaign this year as he also won the Grade 2 Saratoga Special, ran second in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity, and was fourth in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. He earned $983,120 in his initial season of racing for Matt Bryan. Plans for Exaggerator's 3-year-old season are to be determined, said Desormeaux.

A bettor in Saint Kitts parlayed a $1.60 ticket into a $149,231.76 payoff Saturday at Golden Gate Fields by hitting all six winners in the Golden Pick 6.

The winning ticket included Summer Story, who scored a $115.20 stunner in the second leg of the bet. Only one favorite, Matty’s Tribal ($6.20) in the fifth leg, scored a win.

The winning ticket featured Giant Warrior ($9.20), Summer Story ($115.20), Claudia Mae ($10.40), Ship Mast ($21.80), Matty’s Tribal ($6.20), and Omdurman ($10.60).

Trainer Christophe Clement worked Tonalist and Red Vine five furlongs in company Saturday morning at Belmont Park and later said both horses are on track to start in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct next weekend.

“They went in a minute and galloped out in 1:13,” said Clement. “I am delighted with how they went and plan to run both horses in the Cigar Mile.”