ELMONT, N.Y. – Jockey Chris DeCarlo on Wednesday will ride his first race in nearly 10 months when he climbs aboard Blue Chips Only for Osvaldo Rojas in a $14,000 claiming race that goes as the sixth. DeCarlo has not ridden since Sept. 21.

DeCarlo suffered a broken foot and a torn labrum in his right shoulder while guiding a filly from the barn of trainer Robert Falcone to the track for a workout.

“She reared up and ran backwards, and she slipped on the pavement and landed on me,” DeCarlo recalled.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With Saratoga on the horizon, jockeys Irad Ortiz Jr. and Joel Rosario have dropped appeals of suspensions and will miss a few days this week.

Ortiz, who suffered a contusion of his right hand in a spill last Friday – a mount he picked after Rajiv Maragh went down – began serving five days Sunday. He will miss racing Wednesday and Thursday and be back Friday. Ortiz was suspended for a careless-riding incident in the first race June 26.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Rajiv Maragh, who suffered multiple fractures in his back in a spill at Belmont Park last Friday, will be out a minimum of six months, according to his father, Collin.

Rajiv Maragh will remain hospitalized until later this week with four fractured vertebrae and two broken ribs as well as a punctured lung. The injuries occurred during Belmont’s fifth race last Friday, when Maragh’s mount, Yourcreditisgood, clipped heels with Mini Muffin. Under Ruben Silvera, Mini Muffin drifted into the path of Yourcreditisgood, who went down and hurled Maragh to the ground.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The Canadian town of Grand Falls, New Brunswick, will hold a public ceremony Sunday to unveil a monument and statue of Canadian-born jockey Ron Turcotte, who won the 1973 Triple Crown aboard Secretariat.

“It’s a great honor,” Turcotte said. “I didn’t expect everyone to recognize my achievements like they’re doing by putting up a monument. It’s really something. It’s very heartwarming that your own people do things like that for you.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Led by a field of 12 in the featured Oceanside Stakes, the entry box was overflowing Sunday at Del Mar, where entries were taken and post positions drawn for the opening-day card Thursday.

A 10-race card is slated, and all 10 races drew at least 10 runners, with fields of 12 in five of the 10 races.

First-post time is 2 p.m. Pacific for the first of 40 days of the summer meeting, which will last through Labor Day, Sept. 7.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Jockeys Cayetano Chaparro, Aaron Gryder, and Ramon Guce were fined $200 each by Los Alamitos stewards Sunday for excessive use of the whip in races Saturday.

On July 1, the California Horse Racing Board enacted tougher whip rules, stating riders could strike a horse only three times in succession before pausing to allow the horse to respond. In the first seven racing days after the rule went into effect at Los Alamitos, 10 riders were fined for 11 infractions.

ELMONT, N.Y. – It took a little prodding from the outrider to get Honor Code to begin his half-mile work early Sunday morning at Belmont Park, but it took very little prodding from his rider, once under way, for Honor Code to turn in an extremely impressive drill as he continues to prepare for the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga on Aug. 8.

Fantastic Style and Living the Life, the first two finishers of Saturday’s $200,750 Great Lady M. Stakes for female sprinters at Los Alamitos, will be pointed for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland in late October.

Should they get there, they will arrive via different paths.

ARCADIA, Calif. – American Pharoah worked at Santa Anita on Sunday, going five furlongs in 59.20 seconds. The workout left trainer Bob Baffert assured the Triple Crown winner is on course for the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Aug. 2. 

Monmouth Park has announced some of the activities scheduled for Haskell weekend, including ontrack giveaways Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The three-day event runs from July 31-Aug. 2, when the Haskell will be run. It is being called Pharoah Phan Phest in honor of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, who is being pointed to the Haskell by trainer Bob Baffert and owner Ahmed Zayat.