Kiss My Hocks, the nation’s leading 2-year-old Quarter Horse, is being pointed for the Rainbow Futurity trials at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico, said his trainer, Toby Keeton. The trials are July 3-4, with the Grade 1, $900,000 finale July 20.

Kiss My Hocks ran his record to 4 for 4 earlier this month, when he darted to a half-length win in the Grade 1, $700,000 Ruidoso Futurity. Kiss My Hocks led throughout, one start after winning his trial for the race by three lengths. His other successes include the Grade 2, $563,950 Sam Houston Futurity.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Social Inclusion, a somewhat disappointing third as the even-money favorite behind runaway winner Bayern in the Grade 2 Woody Stephens on Belmont Stakes Day, is back home at Gulfstream Park, where he’s getting a bit of a break before launching the second half of his 3-year-old campaign July 27 at Monmouth Park in the Grade 1 Haskell.

Mere seconds after Moonshine Mullin pulled his 10-1 upset Saturday night in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs, trainer Randy Morse stood all alone in the middle of the racetrack, waiting for his stable star to return.

Morse might have been imagining how all the folks back in Anthony, Kan., were behaving. Anthony, a horse-crazy town of fewer than 3,000 people on the state’s south-central border, is where owner Randy Patterson lives. Patterson claimed Moonshine Mullin for $40,000 in November.

Trainer Al Stall Jr. will be back July 5 in New York to run Central Banker in one of the new races on the revised Belmont Park stakes schedule, the Grade 3, $400,000 Belmont Sprint Championship at seven furlongs.

Central Banker won the Grade 2 Churchill Downs on the Derby undercard, then was scratched from the Met Mile on the June 7 Belmont Stakes undercard because of a medication mix-up.

“I just kept him there in New York with my staff,” said Stall. “He’s doing good, ready to run.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Wise Dan, the reigning two-time Horse of the Year, could return to racing at Saratoga if things continue to go well for the 7-year-old gelding as he recovers from emergency colic surgery.

Trainer Charlie LoPresti said Wednesday he would consider the Aug. 9 Fourstardave Handicap as a return spot for Wise Dan but “might be more inclined” to take a more conservative route and wait for the Aug. 30 Bernard Baruch Handicap.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Joe Talamo has been in this situation before.

Last July, Talamo approached the final week of the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting with a four-win lead in the jockeys’ standings. He was winless in the final four days and was caught by Rafael Bejarano and Edwin Maldonado, who finished in a tie for first. Talamo was third, missing by one win.

There are two weeks left in the Santa Anita spring-summer meeting. Going into Thursday’s program, Talamo has 34 wins, good for a 10-win lead over Tyler Baze and a 12-win advantage over apprentice Drayden Van Dyke.

Opelousas, La. – Entries were drawn Tuesday for Saturday’s Evangeline Turf Sprint Day, the most ambitious program ever in the 49-year history of Evangeline Downs. The $300,000 namesake headliner will be joined by the $100,000 Evangeline Mile for 3-year-olds and up; the $100,000 Opelousas for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on turf; the $70,000 Lafayette for Louisiana-bred 3-year-olds at seven furlongs; and the $70,000 Acadiana for Louisiana-bred 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs.

Thursday marks the start of a new era in Northern California racing, as Oak Tree at Pleasanton becomes a reality with the first day of racing at the Alameda County Fair.

The Oak Tree Racing Association, the not-for-profit group that has provided high-quality racing and millions of dollars of support to the industry – “horsemen helping horsemen” is its motto – as well as the local community, arrives at the oldest one-mile racetrack in America. The group has been looking for a home since Santa Anita ended ties with Oak Tree following the 2009 meet.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jockey Rosie Napravnik, who sustained what doctors have described as a “mild separation” near her shoulder joint in a training accident here Sunday, said Monday through her Facebook account that she is experiencing “mostly minimal pain ... along with maximum frustration of being sidelined.”

Napravnik, 26, is expected to be out four to six weeks, meaning an early return could have her ready for the opening of Saratoga on July 18. Among the mounts she will miss in the interim is Untapable in the June 28 Mother Goose at Belmont.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Conquest Titan was diagnosed with a displaced chip in his left knee following a distant sixth-place finish Saturday night in the Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs and was scheduled to undergo surgery this week in Ocala, Fla., trainer Mark Casse said Tuesday.

“We were dumbfounded that he didn’t run any better because he’d trained so well into the race, so this injury explains it,” Casse said. “It’s not all that significant, so hopefully we can have him back healthy and racing at Gulfstream this winter.”