Mark Casse will send out the uncoupled duo of Exclusive Love and Eagle Hall in the allowance feature Sunday at Gulfstream Park, provided wet conditions don’t force the race to the main track. By the sound of it, Exclusive Love could take plenty of beating when breaking from post 1 in the 10th of 11 races at the south Florida track, a $60,500, third-level allowance with an $80,000 claiming option.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Mizdirection will make fewer right-hand turns this year than in 2012, when she won three sprints on Santa Anita’s right-turn-left-turn hillside turf course, including a season-ending triumph in the Grade 1, $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint.

The 2013 Breeders’ Cup at Santa Anita remains the autumn objective for Mizdirection, but her path to that goal may change this season. The Grade 2 Monrovia Stakes on Sunday could be the last sprint Mizdirection makes on her favorite course until fall.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Dominic Galluscio is closing in on a personal milestone of 1,000 career victories, standing at 991 following Johannesburg Smile’s victory here Friday from which he was claimed for $100,000 by Mike Repole.

Galluscio has won a plethora of New York-bred stakes throughout his career and believes he would have already hit the 1,000-win plateau if he hadn’t opted to take some chances with some of those horses.

NEW ORLEANS – Evelyn Benoit said she was cooking a pot of beans when she came up with the name Mean Butterbean for the first foal out of X Strawdnair.

Mean Butterbean was a fast money-maker for Evelyn and Maurice Benoit’s Brittlyn Stable, and brothers and sisters produced by the mare – all with “bean” in their names – have continued the family tradition.

The two biggest races of the summer at Colonial Downs will take substantial purse cuts as part of the 2013 stakes schedule announced earlier this week.

The Colonial Turf Cup, restored to Grade 2 status for this season, has taken a $200,000 hit and will now be worth $300,000. The Grade 2 Virginia Derby will now offer a purse of $500,000, a reduction of $100,000.

According to a press release, the purse cuts were necessary to “help boost the level for overnight races.”

Flame N Flash, the filly who almost stole the $750,000 Champions of Champions against older males last month, reverts to the female division for Sunday’s $100,000 Charger Bar Handicap at Los Alamitos.

For her 4-year-old debut, Flame N Flash will be favored to win her third major race in the last year. She won the La Primera Del Ano Derby last April and the Grade 1 Mildred Vessels Handicap in September.

In the Champion of Champions over 440 yards, Flame N Flash led by a neck midway through the race, but was caught in the final strides by Rylees Boy, losing by a head.

Forest Mouse has been a significant player in the New Mexico handicap ranks since moving to the state last February. He has finished first or second in his eight starts, and on Sunday will be seeking his second consecutive stakes win when he goes to post as the probable favorite in the $50,000 Winsham Lad at Sunland Park.

“Ever since he’s joined our barn, we have had nothing but fun with him,” said Henry Dominguez, who trains Forest Mouse for Parnell Thomas.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Grade 1-placed Nonios, who was a candidate for the Strub series this winter at Santa Anita, will be sidelined for several months, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Friday morning.

“He has an injury and we need to turn him out,” Hollendorfer said, declining to be more specific. “He doesn’t have any fractures or a bowed tendon, but he’s going to be out for a few months. He could make it back by the end of the year.”

A couple of veteran jockeys ran afoul of the stewards recently at Turfway Park, with both having been dealt lengthy suspensions for different violations.

Marlon St. Julien has been suspended indefinitely, pending his completion of a drug-treatment program, while Sal Gonzalez Jr. has appealed two suspensions totaling 30 days for "unsatisfactory rides" in December races at the northern Kentucky track.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens is making a comeback at Santa Anita on Sunday, seven years after he retired from riding and two months after he resumed working horses.

Stevens, 49, has been named to ride Jebrica in a $50,000 claimer on turf in Sunday’s sixth race. It is his only mount of the day and is the start of a comeback that Stevens said Thursday he has been contemplating since late last year.