OZONE PARK, N.Y. – La Verdad, second in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, has returned to training at Belmont Park and could face males in the Grade 2, $250,000 Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct on Nov. 26, trainer Linda Rice said.

Crowley’s Law, second to Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Tepin in the Grade 1 First Lady Stakes at Keeneland last month, has joined Peter Miller’s stable, the trainer said this week.

Miller said he hopes to run Crowley’s Law in the $300,000 Matriarch Stakes, a Grade 1 for fillies and mares at a mile on turf at Del Mar on Nov. 29. Crowley’s Law, 4, was listed as not sold for $950,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale in Kentucky last Sunday. Miller said a partnership is being formed that will own Crowley’s Law.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The turf season is nearing its end on the East Coast, and Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Long Island Handicap is the final graded event for fillies and mares in 2015 on this circuit.

Not surprisingly, trainers Christophe Clement and Chad Brown will be well represented in the 1 1/2-mile race, sending out three runners apiece among the 11 horses entered Wednesday. Ten were entered for turf and one for the main track only.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Retirement can wait.

Those were the words of owner Robert Evans, who confirmed that multiple Grade 1 winner Tonalist will remain in training as a 5-year-old next year and could target the $10 million Dubai World Cup at Meydan in March.

Tonalist finished fifth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic last Saturday at Keeneland. Evans said that Tonalist will aim for the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Nov. 28.

“If he could win that it would give him a Grade 1 win at a mile, a mile and a quarter, and a mile and a half,” Evans said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill officials would love to host one final send-off for American Pharoah, but nothing has been decided other than “there will be a public ceremony,” said Justin Zayat, whose family owns the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner.

Zayat said Wednesday via Twitter that he and his father, owner and breeder Ahmed Zayat, have not decided when or where the ceremony will take place and that Churchill “may very well be the place.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It was only a maiden race, and the winning Beyer Speed Figure was only a 66.

Still, “it was a lot of fun watching him make that big move down the stretch,” trainer Chris Richard said of a 2-year-old colt named Unexplained.

In what was arguably the most visually impressive effort on an eventful Stars of Tomorrow program Sunday at Churchill Downs, Unexplained rallied from last of 10 in a seven-furlong race to win his career debut by four lengths.

“From nowhere!” is partly how Churchill race-caller Travis Stone explained it.

Lady Sabelia returned from a five-month layoff with a vengeance Sunday at Belmont Park, winning the $100,000 Pumpkin Pie Stakes by more than seven lengths. The return to form was striking, as her final two races of the spring had not been up to par.

Lady Sabelia came into her own during the second half of 2014. When she scored her biggest career victory last February in the Grade 2 Barbara Fritchie at Laurel Park, it was her sixth win from her previous seven starts.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Jockey Ty Kennedy needed little coaxing to relocate at the end of the summer.

The 21-year-old apprentice had just arrived at Remington Park from Prairie Meadows for the late-summer and fall meeting when agent Mark North suggested a move to California. Not long after that, Kennedy was headed west.

“I consider this the land of opportunity,” Kennedy said on a recent morning. “I figured why not? At home, you watch these races on TV, and you want to be here.”

California Chrome is nearing the first workout of his comeback.

Trainer Art Sherman said on Wednesday that California Chrome might breeze a quarter-mile on Saturday at Los Alamitos, where the 2014 Horse of the Year has been training for nearly a month. California Chrome returned to Sherman’s stable in early October after a three-month rest at a Kentucky farm.

“He’s doing good, and he’s training on the bit,” Sherman said. “We’ll probably go a quarter in 25 [seconds]. He’s training pretty aggressively. He’s getting with the program.”

Favorite Tale’s long, complicated journey through the Breeders’ Cup ended Tuesday when he arrived home safely at trainer Lupe Preciado’s barn at Parx Racing.

Despite having earned a fees-paid berth in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint by virtue of his victory in the Grade 2 Smile Sprint, Favorite Tale came close to missing the Breeders’ Cup after horses were prevented from leaving Parx due to an equine herpesvirus quarantine. Once at Keeneland, Favorite Tale proved he belonged by finishing third to Runhappy and Private Zone, beaten 1 3/4 lengths.