A $1.5 million race in the hills of West Virginia may not be as glamorous as a $10 million race in the desert of Dubai, but it certainly was the wiser of the two options trainer Bob Baffert had for his multiple Grade 1- winning gelding Game On Dude.

Two years after finishing second in the then-$1 million Charles Town Classic, Game On Dude is back to take another shot at West Virginia’s biggest prize, only this time the pot is $1.5 million with $1 million guaranteed to the winner.

MIAMI – Sprint champion Trinniberg got back to work here at Calder on Wednesday, breezing for the first time since his 11th-place finish in the Dubai Golden Shaheen at Meydan on March 30.

With jockey Jose Alvarez aboard, Trinniberg went an easy half-mile in 50.22 seconds before galloping out five-eighths in 1:02.40 shortly after the renovation break.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Pure Fun, the only filly in a field of 11 3-year-olds, drew the far-outside post for the Grade 3, $200,000 Coolmore Lexington Stakes, to be run Saturday at Keeneland for the 32nd time.

Rosie Napravnik has the call on Pure Fun, a Grade 1-winning filly who will be prepping for a start in the May 3 Kentucky Oaks. She faces a demanding task in the 1 1/16-mile Polytrack race when facing the likes of Winning Cause, Sunbean, Examen, and Cerro.

The Lexington is worth 20 points to the winner toward qualifying for the May 4 Kentucky Derby.

Texas-breds Triumph and Song and Lasting Bubbles ran lofty Beyer Speed Figures in winning statebred stakes at Lone Star opening week.

Triumph and Song, a 4-year-old gelding, earned a 99 Beyer for his win against males in the opening-night Premiere. To put that in perspective, Justin Phillip ran a 103 in winning Saturday’s Grade 3 Count Fleet at Oaklawn and Handsome Mike posted a 94 in taking the Grade 3 Commonwealth at Keeneland.

A field of eight fillies and mares was drawn Tuesday at Keeneland for Friday's 1 1/16-mile Polytrack feature, the Doubledogdare Stakes. The Grade 3, $100,000 race features likely top choices Inglorious and Mystical Star.

From the rail, this is the field: Artemus Kitten, Ice Cream Silence, Inglorious, Alaura Michele, Mystical Star, Sisterhood, Lotta Lovin, and Minakshi.

Inglorious, with Julien Leparoux to ride, is best known as the 2011 Queen’s Plate winner. Mystical Star (Jose Lezcano) was the runner-up here last fall in the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes.

Late Saturday afternoon at Lone Star Park, Randy Mayfield was high-fiving jockey Alfredo Sigala in the winner’s circle, celebrating the performance of Delmersmiracle, a filly he trained to an apparent first-out victory at 25-1 odds for owner/breeder Don Milligan in the day’s last race.

Although track stewards had begun an inquiry into the race due to a number of horses breaking poorly, Mayfield said he “was counting my money” after wagering $200 on her.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The pick six would be less difficult Thursday at Santa Anita if the best race included at least one front-runner.

Unfortunately, pick-six bettors taking aim at the $85,262 carryover will look at race 6, an entry-level turf allowance for 3-year-old fillies, and ask the same question posed early this week to trainer Jim Cassidy – who makes the lead?

Overnight purses for the upcoming spring-summer meeting at Betfair Hollywood Park have been reduced for some cheaper divisions, but remain unchanged for higher-class races such as maiden special weight and allowance races compared to the 2012 meeting.

The purses for $20,000 maiden-claiming races, starter allowance races for nonwinners of two, and for claiming horses worth $8,000 to $25,000 have been cut by an average of $1,000 from last year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The San Juan Capistrano Handicap will have a new winner this year.

Tuesday, trainer Neil Drysdale said that Bourbon Bay, winner of the San Juan Capistrano in 2010 and 2012, will skip Sunday’s race at Santa Anita.

Drysdale plans to start Fire With Fire, who was third in the Grade 2 San Luis Rey Stakes over 1 1/2 miles on turf March 16.

“He ran well the other day and he should love the distance,” Drysdale said.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The winner of the Coolmore Lexington Stakes on Saturday at Keeneland will earn 20 “wild card” points toward eligibility for the May 4 Kentucky Derby, which at this juncture looks like enough points to crack the 20-horse lineup.

Tom Proctor, who will send out Examen in the Lexington, doesn’t much care.

“I don’t need anybody or any points to tell me whether I have a Derby horse or not,” Proctor said with his usual candor. “He’s not even nominated.”