ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita ended its 19-day autumn meeting with declines in average all-sources and ontrack handle and an increase in attendance, according to a track official.

All-sources average handle was down 4 percent to $8,213,323, while ontrack handle was down 7 percent. Average attendance increased by 14 percent to 6,214. The track did not publish extensive business data.

The attendance figures were boosted to some extent by a Latin music concert Sunday that contributed to a crowd of 12,362 compared with 5,555 on the corresponding Sunday in 2014.

Both daily and total all-sources mutuel handle at the Northlands Park meet this year showed increases from last year. The 2015 season at the Edmonton, Alberta, racetrack ran from May 1 through Oct.24.

A total of $21,475,337 was wagered over 75 days this year at Northlands Park, a 7 percent increase over the 2014 total, which was bet over 73 days. On one day this year, the races were canceled after the first two races due to unsafe track conditions.

The average of $286,337 was up by 4 percent compared to last year’s average.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – What happened to Corey Lanerie this summer at Saratoga will always remain a mystery – especially to Lanerie himself.

Lanerie went winless from 57 mounts at the Spa in an extended slump rendered even more peculiar by the way he dominated the regular Keeneland fall meet that ended Saturday.

Getting blanked at Saratoga “sure was hard to deal with,” said Lanerie. “It hurts your confidence and makes you start to think, ‘What am I doing wrong?’ But I’ll tell ya, this meet sure makes up for Saratoga.”

Four months after the chaotic opening day of the Del Mar summer meeting, the popular San Diego racetrack will launch its 20-day autumn meeting Thursday in a more tranquil setting.

Instead of more than 40,000 people crammed throughout the seaside venue, the audience Thursday will be closer to the 11,513 who attended opening day of the 2014 autumn meeting on a Friday.

“It’s a different kind of meet,” said track president Joe Harper. “It’s more locals. It’s still an opening that draws a lot of people.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Dancing Brave might as well have come to Santa Anita in 1986 for the third edition of the Breeders’ Cup Turf with a cluster of footmen and butlers stationed outside his stall. Royalty – that’s what the 3-year-old colt looked like, his bitter defeat in the Epsom Derby having given way to a blistering romp in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, the official performance rating of which (141) cast Dancing Brave in an epic light.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The last time Kathleen O’Connell saddled a horse for a major event in Kentucky, there wasn’t much hope of winning. Watch Me Out was 33-1 when he finished 18th in the 2011 Kentucky Derby for O’Connell, whose presence was widely noted primarily because only 13 female trainers had run a Derby horse before.

But when O’Connell leads over Lady Shipman for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Keeneland on Saturday, things will be considerably different. Lady Shipman figures as a major contender, if not the outright favorite, in the 5 1/2-furlong race.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine will move Saturday’s first post time to 12:20 p.m. Eastern to better align post times with that day’s Breeders’ Cup card at Keeneland.

Woodbine Entertainment Group applied for the post-time change with the Ontario Racing Commission on Oct. 20, and although it hadn’t been approved as of Sunday, Jamie Martin, executive vice president of racing for WEG, said he didn’t anticipate any issues with the request.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Peggy O has quickly blown through her Ontario-sired conditions in four starts this year and will step up to stakes company for the first time in the $150,000 Jammed Lovely Stakes on Nov. 7 at Woodbine, trainer Catherine Day Phillips said. The seven-furlong sprint on Polytrack is for Ontario-bred 3-year-old fillies.

“That’s a logical spot for her,” she said. “She had two races quite close together, so this gives her a little more time to get organized for the Jammed Lovely.”

When apprentice jockey David Lopez fractured his back in a spill at Golden Gate Fields on June 6, he expected to be riding again in six weeks. But complications kept him sidelined for 4 1/2 months.

When he returned to riding when Golden Gate Fields opened last Thursday, Lopez was hoping to get one victory. Instead, he won with his first two mounts and ended the day with three winners from four mounts. Three of the winners were saddled by Billy Morey, who made four trips to the winner’s circle that day.

And Lopez hasn’t slowed down.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Lukes Alley, the 2014 Canadian champion older male, will try to win the Grade 2, $200,000 Autumn Stakes for the second year in a row Nov. 8, trainer Josie Carroll said.

The lightly raced 5-year-old won his first start of the season by 2 3/4 lengths on Sept. 12 in a 1 1/16-mile allowance race on Polytrack, earning a 93 Beyer Speed Figure. He tried to repeat in the Grade 3 Durham Cup Stakes on Oct. 3 but couldn’t hold off Golden Sabre in deep stretch.