Jessethemarine, the second longest shot on the board at 17-1, came up short by a head following a stretch-long duel but walked away a winner, thanks to the disqualification of Interchange in Thursday’s $50,250 Whirling Ash Stakes for 2-year-olds at Delaware Park.

Jessethemarine, with Jose Caraballo aboard, briefly took a narrow lead over pacesetter Interchange in deep stretch of the one-mile dirt race only to see Interchange, under Victor Carrasco, fight back to narrowly reach the wire first in 1:38.70.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – While Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith is in town to ride in the Arlington-Washington Lassie and the Arlington-Washington Futurity, little-known trainer Anne Smith might have the horse for the Grade 3, $150,000 Futurity on Saturday at Arlington.

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DEL MAR, Calif. - Gypsy Robin, who won the California Equine Retirement Foundation Stakes for female sprinters Wednesday, will remain on Polytrack by running in the Grade 2, $200,000 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 5, according to trainer Mike Puype.

Gypsy Robin rebounded from a fourth-place finish in a classified allowance race July 18.

AUBURN, Wash. – After an even 100 starts, Sun City still has something to offer. The 9-year-old mare, who is likely to be one of the favorites in Saturday’s seventh race at Emerald Downs, has won her past two starts, giving her 21 victories. She’ll shoot for No. 22 in a $2,500 claimer at six furlongs.

First post for the nine-race card is 2 p.m. Pacific.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Diamond Bachelor made an eye-catching presence when he arrived in the Del Mar paddock for the Oak Tree Juvenile Turf on Wednesday, and minutes later he looked just as good winning the race so easily that he rocketed to the top of the charts of contenders for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In the spring of 2011, a race pitting Pants On Fire and Taptowne would have resulted in a blowout victory for Pants On Fire.

Pants On Fire was the Louisiana Derby winner that spring, and finished ninth behind winner Animal Kingdom in the Kentucky Derby. Taptowne, meanwhile, was still eligible for a first-level allowance race on Derby Day of that year, and had been whipped early in the Spiral and Lexington stakes.

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DEL MAR, Calif. - Julien Leparoux won the Oak Tree Juvenile Turf on Diamond Bachelor, then rode Tamarando to win the Del Mar Futurity, which gave him seven stakes wins for the meet, tops among riders in his first full season at Del Mar.

Leparoux relocated to Southern California one year ago after marrying the former Shea Mitchell, daughter of trainer Mike Mitchell.

POMONA, Calif. – Revisions to the stakes program at the Los Angeles County Fair will be necessary next fall if the E.B. Johnston Stakes, originally scheduled for Saturday, is to be saved.

For the second time in three years, the $50,000 route for California-bred fillies and mares did not fill. Five nominated, none entered, and the first Saturday of the 13-day Barretts at Fairplex season will not have a stakes.

“It’s an important day for us, and we should have a stake,” racing secretary Tom Knust said.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – Strong Mandate, the 9 3/4-length winner of Monday’s Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga, arrived in Kentucky on Wednesday but soon will be making another road trip.

[bc_video_id:303942:]LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kelly Breen is no longer a college dude, but the 44-year-old trainer has a youthful vigor that should make him feel right at home Saturday night at Churchill Downs.