DEL MAR, Calif. – Prospect Park, the winner of the Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap at Del Mar in August, has been turned out for 30 days because of a recent illness, trainer Clifford Sise said.

Prospect Park was being considered for the Twilight Derby at Santa Anita on Oct. 24 when he was taken out of training. He has been sent to owners Marty and Pam Wygod’s River Edge Farm, Sise said.

Prospect Park will miss the $300,000 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar on Nov. 28, one of two Grade 1 races at the track’s autumn meeting.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Pacific Heat has shown rapid improvement in her two starts and will run next in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos on Dec. 12.

After beating maidens at Los Alamitos in September, Pacific Heat won her stakes debut in the $201,000 Golden State Juvenile Fillies for California-breds on Thursday, the opening day of the Del Mar autumn meeting.

Ridden by Joe Talamo, Pacific Heat closed from fourth to take the lead in early stretch and drew off to win the seven-furlong race by a commanding 5 1/4 lengths.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Iron Fist finished second in the Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 19, which could reasonably have led to a start in a Breeders’ Cup race at Keeneland this weekend.

Instead, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has taken a more low-key approach. He has entered Iron Fist in an optional claimer at a mile at Del Mar on Sunday, a race that could be a prep for the $150,000 Native Diver Handicap at 1 1/8 miles here Nov. 28.

“We might look at that if he does well in this race,” Hollendorfer said. “We want to get him in a positive position.”

On Thursday, Sunland Park in New Mexico announced the dates for its major stakes, including the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Derby, which will be run March 20. The 1 1/8-mile race, which Firing Line won this year, will again share a card with the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks.

Sunland opens a 72-date mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses on Dec. 18. The season runs through April 19.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - When Tale of S’avall missed a workout Sunday at Belmont Park due to sore feet, trainer Barclay Tagg held out some hope that he could still make Saturday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile if things turned around quickly during the week in Kentucky.

Golden Horn is something special, even by Breeders’ Cup standards, as the first same-year winner of the English Derby and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Europe’s two most famous races, to start at the Breeders’ Cup.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The rain was gone, but the remnants of nearly three days of precipitation remained at Keeneland on Thursday, with the main track sloppy and sealed when the course opened at 6:15 a.m. and only slightly better after being harrowed during the renovation break.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – From the time Beholder arrived here at Keeneland more than a week ago with a temperature one degree above normal, trainer Richard Mandella kept checking and rechecking her health, drawing blood, scoping her lungs after her work and gallops. He was looking for something, anything, but hoping not to find anything.

Through Wednesday, all was fine. Her most-recent blood work had come back perfect, and she was training great.

And then came Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – While his connections clearly wish no rain had fallen at Keeneland this week, Golden Horn won’t be taken out of Saturday’s $3 million Breeders’ Cup Turf, provided there’s no further significant precipitation before the race, trainer John Gosden said Thursday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – American Pharoah’s racing career began in California, his preps toward the Kentucky Derby began in Arkansas, and he has raced at eight tracks in six states in three time zones, but now, the circle finally is complete. He has returned to Kentucky, the state of his birth, to close out his racing career Saturday in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland before starting a new life as a stallion.