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.

The California Retirement Management Account, which finds homes for retired Thoroughbreds, is hosting its annual fundraiser, a poker tournament and casino night at the Del Mar Hilton on July 18.

“Cards 4 CARMA” is a Texas hold’em poker tournament, casino night and silent auction which begins that evening at 6:30 p.m. The grand prize for the poker tournament is a two-night stay at Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas.

CYPRESS, Calif. - Rocko’s Wheel and Smack Talk, the winners of optional claimers at Los Alamitos on Friday, are likely to start in the $200,000 Real Good Deal Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 2.

Rocko’s Wheel, owned by the Little Red Feather Racing syndicate and Jimmy Ukegawa and trained by Phil D’Amato, won an optional claimer at a mile for his third win in six starts. Joe Talamo has been aboard for all three wins.

Bal a Bali, the winner of the Grade 3 American Stakes in his United States debut on May 9 but last of five in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita on June 13, will be pointed for the $200,000 Del Mar Mile on turf on Aug. 23.

Trainer Richard Mandella said on Saturday that Bal a Bali emerged from the Shoemaker Mile with a wrenched ankle that will prevent a start next Saturday in the $400,000 Eddie Read Stakes, the richest turf race of the Del Mar summer meeting.

“It was not a big deal,” Mandella said of the ankle injury. “We backed up and gave him more time.”

ELMONT, N.Y. - Jockeys Rajiv Maragh and Irad Ortiz Jr. will both be sidelined due to injuries suffered during separate riding mishaps Friday at Belmont Park.

Maragh was the more severely injured of the two riders. He said in a text sent early Saturday morning that he sustained fractures of the T4 through T7 vertebrae of the spinal column. He also broke a rib and has a tiny puncture in one lung. 

Maragh was injured when his mount, Yourcreditisgood, clipped heels and fell near the half-mile pole during the fifth race on Friday.

Gulfstream Park will raise purses an average of 10 percent beginning on July 23, the Hallandale Beach, Fla., track announced in a release.

Gulfstream's third summer of live racing continues to show increases in business over the first two. According to the release, Gulfstream handled $8 million on the July 5 Summit of Speed card, compared to $4.7 million handled at Calder in 2013, the last time it was run.

AUBURN, Wash. – It’s been a quiet meet for Doris Harwood, Emerald’s all-time leader with 66 stakes wins, but things are about to heat up. Daytona Beach, a Harwood homebred, is likely to set the pace Sunday in the 1 1/16-mile Seattle Slew Handicap and might be good enough to win it. Next week, Noosito, Harwood’s stable star, will start as one of the favorites in the Mt. Rainier Handicap – the final stakes prep before the Aug. 16 Longacres Mile.

Daytona Beach was speedy and game in his first route attempt, and that might be just the tip of the iceberg.

AUBURN, Wash. – Frank Lucarelli figured he’d have one of the leading 3-year-olds at Emerald this year with the speedy Trackattacker, but things haven’t worked out as planned. Trackattacker made just one start at the meeting before shipping out to California and, ultimately, to Arizona.

But Lucarelli has a big crop of 3-year-olds. Even without Trackattacker, he’ll have three starters in the $50,000 Seattle Slew Handicap on Sunday.

AUBURN, Wash. – Business is booming at Emerald Downs. The midpoint of the 70-day meeting came and went Friday, and both average field size – spurred by a 20 percent increase in overnight purses – and betting handle have jumped dramatically from the corresponding date in 2014.