OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The New York Racing Association will begin holding quarterly meetings seeking input from horseplayers, fans, and members of the local communities of its three tracks – Aqueduct, Belmont, and Saratoga. The first meeting is scheduled for Nov. 15 at 9:30 a.m. at Longshots, a simulcasting facility on the second floor at Aqueduct.

Christopher Kay, NYRA’s chief executive and president, said each quarterly meeting will be scheduled for a Saturday in order to make it convenient for people to attend.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – House Rules, who won an off-the-turf second-level allowance race in the mud Thursday, likely will make her next start in the Grade 3, $400,000 Comely Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on Nov. 29, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said Friday.

It was the second allowance win in the last three starts for House Rules, who in between finished last behind Untapable in the Grade 1 Cotillion at Parx on Sept. 20. Jerkens, who took over the training of House Rules earlier this year from his father, Allen, said Javier Castellano rode the filly Thursday the way she wants to be ridden.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Aqueduct will be open for live racing Monday, the day before Veterans Day, and will take the time to salute war veterans. First post for Monday’s nine-race card is 12:20 p.m.

Following the fourth race, the New York Racing Association will conduct a special trophy presentation recognizing the courage and sacrifices made by service members and veteran-services employees.

This has been a bittersweet week at the barn of trainer Leandro Mora, for less than 24 hours after Goldencents won the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile for the second straight year, he was on a plane to Kentucky, where he will begin his stud career next spring at Spendthrift Farm.

“It’s a bit of a void,” said Jack Sisterson, an assistant to Mora and Mora’s boss, Doug O’Neill, who is currently on suspension. “He was in the first stall, next to the office. You’d walk in at 3:30 or 4 in the morning, and his head was always out, ready to go.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Shared Belief is back at Golden Gate Fields and won’t be leaving anytime soon. His trainer and co-owner, Jerry Hollendorfer, said Shared Belief is being freshened, and the only chance he would run before the end of the year is if Hollendorfer decides to go in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on that track’s opening day, Dec. 26. Otherwise, Shared Belief will await 2015.

A bill passed this year by the New York state legislature will allow qualifying jockeys to have their health insurance paid for from a portion of video-lottery-terminal revenue previously earmarked for purses.

Due in part to wet weather, Belmont Park’s fall meet suffered near-double-digit declines in total and ontrack handle compared with a year ago.

All-sources handle for the 38-day meet was $294,710,551, a 9.8 percent decrease from last year’s total of $326,878,686 for 37 cards. Ontrack handle for this year’s meet was $42,697,719, a 9.6 percent decline from last year’s figure of $47,238,016.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Upstart, third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, is back in New York, but only briefly.

Trainer Rick Violette said Upstart won’t run in the Grade 2, $400,000 Remsen Stakes and instead will soon ship to south Florida to begin preparing for a 3-year-old campaign.

With Upstart, Violette hopes to get a New York-bred to the Kentucky Derby for a second straight year. This year, he finished fifth with Samraat, the winner of the Withers and Gotham stakes.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Last year, Kiaran McLaughlin captured one of the four graded stakes run at Aqueduct on the Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. He came within a nose and a neck of winning two more.

That was with three horses. This year, McLaughlin is planning a full-out assault on the four graded stakes held on the final Saturday of November at Aqueduct.

Beholder, the two-time champion who missed this year’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff after becoming ill, has recovered and now will be turned out before coming back to race next year, trainer Richard Mandella said Thursday at Del Mar.

“Her blood is good. X-rays of her lungs are good. Now, it’s just a matter of how much time to give her – one month, two months,” Mandella said. “She was sick. She was trying to get pneumonia.”