ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Mark Casse has had plenty of seasons to remember, including Sovereign Award campaigns as Canada’s outstanding trainer in 2006 through 2008 and 2011.

But the Casse barn has soared to new heights in 2012, surpassing the $10 million earnings mark and sitting in seventh place in the North American standings with opportunities to add to that total before it rings in the new year on Jan. 1.

“It had been the best year we ever had last year, with $7.8 million,” Casse said. “This year, $10.1 million, I’m very proud of that.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The stakes winners Carving, Den’s Legacy, and Really Mr Greely, along with Title Contender, eighth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, will form trainer Bob Baffert’s team for Saturday’s $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Baffert worked all four colts at Santa Anita on Sunday or Monday and said Tuesday that they are intended runners in the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity, the last major race of the year for 2-year-olds.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Rain or shine, Alley Hondro is starting in Thursday’s seventh race at Betfair Hollywood Park.

With wet weather predicted for Southern California late Wednesday and into Thursday, the surface of Thursday’s seventh race, an optional claimer over 1 1/16 miles on turf, will not be known until closer to race time.

“We’re running either way,” trainer Peter Miller said.

Thursday’s program launches the final week of the Hollywood Park fall meeting, which ends Sunday. The Santa Anita winter-spring meeting begins Dec. 26.

Two allowance races share the spotlight Thursday at Aqueduct, when juvenile fillies go a mile and 70 yards in race 3, and horse for course Driven by Solar looks for his sixth sprint win on Aqueduct’s inner dirt track in race 8.

Fittingly, two of the five fillies in the first-level allowance route – Kimono and Princess of Sylmar – are trained by Todd Pletcher, whose stable has dominated 2-year-old racing in New York this season.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Ontario-sired nonwinners-of-three allowance competitors will line up Thursday in the seventh race at Woodbine, and King City should be prominent in the six-furlong sprint.

A Goldmart Farm homebred, King City placed in two Ontario-sired stakes last year at 2. This year, he has been something of an underachiever, winning just one of eight starts.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - San Pablo, winner of Saturday’s Queens County Stakes at Aqueduct, will likely be headed to south Florida for the winter, trainer Todd Pletcher said.

“There are not many opportunities [in New York] really with any decent purses till the Excelsior,” said Pletcher, referring to a Grade 3, $150,000 race run in late March. “This is a horse we’ve always liked. He seems like he’s kind of putting it together. If he can take another step forward then he might fit with the top echelon.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – After recording two solid victories sprinting, Vyjack will likely be given the chance to stretch out around two turns in the Grade 2, $200,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 5, trainer Rudy Rodriguez said Monday.

Trainer Shug McGaughey resisted the temptation to try Abaco, his steadily improving Giant’s Causeway filly against stakes company for the first time in Sunday’s South Beach. Instead, McGaughey opted for a little softer spot and was rewarded when Abaco rallied to defeat high-level optional claiming competition a little earlier on the card for her fourth consecutive victory.

McGaughey had originally entered Abaco in the South Beach, but took her out when he realized the allowance race would fill.

Trainer Todd Pletcher said he has not yet mapped out any definite plans for Graydar, who came within .01 of a second of equaling Commentator’s one-mile track record when he captured his first-level condition last week. Graydar, who received a 100 Beyer Speed Figure winning his debut here this past spring, earned a 103 Beyer for his latest performance.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Nick Gonzalez may be enjoying the warmer weather as he moved down to Florida recently to run a division at Gulfstream Park.

But Martha Gonzalez, wife and assistant to the trainer, has been enjoying the hot hand here at Woodbine as the barn has scored with 6 of the last 13 runners it sent to the post.

Evil Kitten was the most recent winner as she captured an optional $62,500/second-level allowance race for 3-year-old fillies here Sunday.