The Monmouth at Meadowlands all-turf meet, which concluded Saturday, showed a 19 percent gain in average daily handle over 2014, according to figures released by Monmouth Park on Tuesday.

The 10 days of this year’s meet had daily average handle of $1,235,522, compared to last season’s average of $1,038,747, when eight cards were held. Six races per day were run both years.

In 2013, daily average handle at the meet was $988,547. Nine six-race cards were held that year.

Florent Geroux’s breakthrough year continues unabated. In addition to winning the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf on Catch a Glimpse and the Turf Sprint aboard Mongolian Saturday, the 29-year-old Frenchman won the Fort Springs Stakes aboard 10-1 shot Meshell as darkness began to envelop Keeneland on Breeders’ Cup Saturday.

Mark Casse was the focus of one of the many great stories from the two-day Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland, breaking his career-long Breeders’ Cup drought by winning the Juvenile Fillies Turf with Catch a Glimpse and the Mile with Tepin.

“I got about 130 text messages and voice mails,” Casse said Monday as things finally began to calm down. “It was crazy good.”

Uzziel, who was vanned from the winner’s circle to the backstretch Sunday after winning the $200,250 Goldikova Stakes at Del Mar, was “still a little off” in a foreleg Monday, said trainer Keith Desormeaux.

Desormeaux emphasized that Uzziel’s lameness was minor and said a diagnosis will be made in the coming days whether she can race again at Del Mar this month or if she needs to be given a break.

“We’ll have to analyze it during the week,” he said.

Del Mar struggled to attract ontrack business from Thursday through Sunday for the opening week of its autumn meeting but benefited from strong all-sources handle helped by simulcasts of the Breeders’ Cup races from Kentucky.

According to figures released on a nightly basis, Del Mar had an average attendance of 4,476 for the first four days of the meeting. The Thursday opening-day card attracted 6,144, far below the 11,515 who attended the opening day of the 2014 autumn meeting, which was held on a Friday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Melmich and Pender Harbour ran one-two Sept. 2 in the Elgin Stakes and will face each other again in the Thursday feature at Woodbine, a 1 5/8-mile allowance on Polytrack that serves as the local prep for the Grade 3, $150,000 Valedictory Stakes on the meet’s closing day, Nov. 29.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – For the last six months, the New York Racing Association has enjoyed a spike in business at Belmont Park and Saratoga due to a combination of factors, including appearances by American Pharoah and the kindness of Mother Nature.

American Pharoah, the Triple Crown winner, retired over the weekend and arrived at his new home, Ashford Stud in Lexington, Ky., on Monday.

Starting Wednesday, Aqueduct is NYRA’s home for racing for the next six months, and officials are hoping Mother Nature doesn’t retire her racing-friendly weather.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Less than 24 hours after the sports world celebrated the sensational triumph of American Pharoah in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland, some intriguing young prospects went to work Sunday to attain their own degrees of racing fame.

Right down the road at Churchill Downs, Stageplay revealed herself as perhaps the most promising winner on the 10-race Stars of Tomorrow card that opened the 21-day fall meet, toying with 12 other 2-year-old fillies in winning the Rags to Riches Stakes.

Though trainer Chad Brown was in Kentucky at the Breeders' Cup, his stable didn’t miss a beat Saturday, winning a pair of stakes at Belmont Park, to put the wrap on a phenomenal fall meet.

Brown won the Grade 3 Bold Ruler with Matrooh and ran one-two in the Chelsea Flower Stakes with Ava’s Kitten and Llanita. Brown, who is assisted in New York by Cherie DeVaux, won the Belmont trainer’s title with 35 wins (seven stakes) from 110 starters. Linda Rice was second with 19 wins.

Brown said the Grade 1 Cigar Mile on Nov. 28 “will be under consideration” for Matrooh.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Crittenden finished a neck in front of Acceptance in Saturday’s $82,150 Let It Ride Stakes on turf in what could be the first of two showdowns between the 3-year-olds at the Del Mar autumn meeting.

After the Let It Ride Stakes, trainer Eoin Harty said Crittenden “definitely” would be pointed for the $300,000 Hollywood Derby, a Grade 1 at 1 1/8 miles on turf Nov. 28.