ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Doug O’Neill, who faces a 45-day suspension for a medication violation in New York, will not be the trainer of record of horses from his stable at Santa Anita on Thursday and Friday.

The horses will run under the name of his assistant, Leandro Mora, a decision that O’Neill said Tuesday was made by the owners last weekend.

“They have asked to have Leandro run the horses on Thursday and Friday,” he said.

Bayerd, an 11 1/2-length maiden winner at Saratoga in August, shipped to Remington last month with an eye on the track’s 2-year-old stakes program, said trainer Steve Asmussen. The horse won the $75,825 Kip Deville on the Oklahoma Derby undercard Sept. 28 and is now being pointed for the $100,000 Clever Trevor at Remington on Nov. 7. The final race in the series is the $250,000 Springboard Mile on Dec. 14.

“It’s a nice program,” Asmussen said.

Mico Margarita and Heitai made for a dramatic one-two finish in last month’s $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Championship, each earning a triple-digit Beyer Speed Figure. Now, the pair is heading down different roads.

Mico Margarita is scheduled to make his next start in the Grade 1, $1.5 million Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Nov. 1, trainer Steve Asmussen said Monday. Heitai’s focus moving forward will be turf racing, according to trainer Karl Broberg.

When Big Cazanova went to New York last month for the Jockey Club Gold Cup, trainer Peter Miller was hoping to learn just how far the South American import had progressed. But Miller said he never got the chance to find out, and he’s willing to try once more, this time on racing’s biggest late-season stage.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez won with five of seven mounts on Saturday at Keeneland, marking the 18th time that has been done. Velazquez swept the late pick four (races 7-10), including three straight Grade 1 wins on Dayatthespa in the First Lady, Carpe Diem in the Breeders’ Futurity, and Wise Dan in the Shadwell Turf Mile.

The Keeneland record for the most wins on a card is shared by three jockeys: Randy Romero and Craig Perret both won six in a day at the 1990 spring meet, and Julien Leparoux did it at the 2012 spring meet.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – All-sources wagering on Keeneland racing on the opening three-day Fall Stars Weekend was down marginally from 2013, according to figures released by the track.

Total handle was $29.4 million, down 5 percent from the $31.1 million handle on opening weekend last year. Saturday and Sunday handle actually were up from last year, but handle on the Friday opener, which marked the debut of the new dirt surface amid nasty weather, was down 24 percent.

Euro Charline has been declared from consideration for the final Grade 1 race of the Keeneland fall meet, the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup on Saturday, after trainer Todd Pletcher did not work the filly as scheduled Monday at Belmont. The British-bred filly loomed a solid favorite in the QE II.

The winners of last weekend’s Breeders’ Cup challenge races for the Grade 1, $1 million Juvenile Turf appear headed in different directions. Lawn Ranger, who won the Bourbon Stakes at Keeneland, is on board for the Breeders’ Cup, while Full Mast, placed first in the Jean-Luc Lagardere at Longchamp, is calling it a season.

The races were the final Win and You’re In preps for the BC Juvenile Turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 31.

The landscape of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile field changed over the weekend, but one thing that remained the same is that trainers Bob Baffert and Todd Pletcher once again will be front and center in the $2 million race.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Up With the Birds headlined the list of 23 nominees for the Grade 1, $1 million Canadian International on Oct. 19 at Woodbine, but trainer Malcolm Pierce said Up With the Birds likely will head to Belmont Park for Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Knickerbocker Stakes instead.

Up With the Birds would be returning to the scene of his first career Grade 1 victory for the Knickerbocker, as he captured the Jamaica Handicap at the same distance on Belmont Park’s inner turf course last October.