Grand Contender, who swept both graded races run this past meet at Lone Star Park, has resumed training following a freshening and could return to action this fall at Delta Downs, according to trainer Tom Amoss. Grand Contender captured the Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile and the Grade 3, $200,000 Lone Star Park Handicap in succession, invading from his Churchill Downs base in Kentucky.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Happy My Way reintroduced himself to the Belmont main track Thursday morning by blazing five furlongs in 58.59 seconds in preparation for the Grade 1 Vosburgh here Sept. 27. It was the fastest of 10 works at the distance.

Happy My Way had not been on Belmont’s main track since last October, when he was training here. In two career starts over the main track, Happy My Way won a maiden $65,000 claimer in September 2012 and was a well-beaten fifth in the Gygistar Stakes in May 2013.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Jess’s Dream, the first foal out of 2009 Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra and by 2007-08 Horse of the Year Curlin, worked three furlongs in 36.84 seconds Friday morning over Belmont’s main track. It was the juvenile colt’s first work since he arrived in trainer Kiaran McLaughlin’s barn.

Jess’s Dream, owned by Barbara Banke’s Stonestreet Stable, worked outside of stablemate Good Pick Nick, finishing slightly ahead of him at the wire.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The aggressive manner in which Cavorting gallops prompts trainer Kiaran McLaughlin to work the stakes-winning 2-year-old filly infrequently.

On Friday, and for the first time since Aug. 29, Cavorting worked, breezing four furlongs in 47.49 seconds over a fast Belmont main track. Cavorting went her first quarter in 23.39 seconds, her second quarter in 24.10, and galloped out five furlongs in 1:01.10.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Alpha has tailed off. Romansh and Long River have disappointed. But on Thursday, a new player emerged among Godolphin Racing’s older male division.

Transparent, unraced in the United States since a fourth-place finish in last year’s Pennsylvania Derby, came off an eight-month layoff to set a track record at Belmont Park, winning a second-level allowance race by 1 1/4 lengths. His final time of 1:39.22 for 1 1/16 miles eclipsed the mark of 1:39.38 set by Birdrun in 2009.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Despite having had hard races in the Whitney and Woodward at Saratoga, Moreno remains revved up and raring to go for next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, trainer Eric Guillot said Friday.

“My horse is good, I expect him to run big,” Guillot said from Saratoga, where Moreno has been training all summer. “He’s dappled out from head to toe. He’s ready to go.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Alert Bay came out of his win in the Grade 3, $150,000 British Columbia Derby in excellent shape and will remain at Hastings to run in the Grade 3, $100,000 Premiers on Oct. 13, according to trainer Anita Bolton.

Alert Bay gave owner Peter Redekop his third straight win and his fourth overall in the most prestigious race at Hastings. Redekop was initially thinking of sending Alert Bay back to California, where he was based with trainer Blaine Wright.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Tracy McCarthy was still in recovery mode Wednesday morning after watching Ole’s Miss win the $100,000 British Columbia Oaks on Sunday. Ole’s Miss wrapped up the local 3-year-old filly title with her narrow win over Irish Lyric in the 1 1/8-mile Oaks. It was her fourth stakes win this year, and the combined margin of her four wins is less than three-quarters of a length. She won the Oaks by a head.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Alex Canchari, the leading rider at Hawthorne Racecourse on the Chicago circuit last fall, will ride in Southern California beginning next Friday.

Canchari, 20, arrived Thursday from Canterbury Park in Minnesota, where he has been riding this summer. Canchari has won 82 races this year, including stakes at Canterbury Park and Oaklawn Park.

The upcoming Santa Anita race meeting will be his first in California.

“I’ve been dreaming of this since I was a kid,” Canchari said. “People said I should try to move up to the next level.”

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Dallas Keen finally got his first Gulfstream Park victory when Katillac Charm drew off to a 2 3/4-length tally under jockey Juan Leyva in Thursday’s second race.

“It feels good; we had a lot of seconds and thirds,” said Keen, who has won more than 800 races in his career, most coming in Texas and around the Southwest. “I think the first horses we ran were too inflated for the racing here. I’ve brought some extra horses here for Midwest Thoroughbreds, and I’m getting them ready now, so we have a lot of high expectations for Florida.”