ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin is hoping a change of surface does for Crossbow what it did for Questing.

After disappointing in his last three stakes tries on dirt, Crossbow is scheduled to make his turf debut in Friday’s $80,000 Home of the Free Stakes at Belmont Park. The Home of the Free is scheduled for seven furlongs on the Widener turf course, though rain is in the forecast.

Earlier this year, McLaughlin moved Questing from the turf to the dirt, and she won three consecutive races, including the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks and Grade 1 Alabama.

If Hollywood Dreams is ever going to carry his considerable speed around three turns, he should do it when he runs in an allowance race that carries a $40,000 claiming option for 3-year-olds and up at Northlands Park on Friday. The one-mile race, which is restricted to horses that have not won a race at a mile more in 2012, drew six horses, and Hollywood Dreams should be able to control the race right from the start.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – All Star Heart, who stayed at Woodbine after finishing second in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes on Sept. 16, breezed five furlongs on the turf training track here Wednesday in 50.20 seconds.

Bred in Ontario by her owner, Gerry Gibbs, All Star Heart shipped in from California for trainer Ron McAnally and finished a closing second in the Canadian, a 1 1/8-mile turf race in which she was beaten 1 1/2 lengths by English invader Barefoot Lady.

Trainer Brian Lynch, a good friend of McAnally’s, has been looking after the 5-year-old All Star Heart.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Stretch runner Thislilsoulofmine is the class of Friday’s featured eighth race at Woodbine, a second-level optional $62,500 claimer. The question handicappers should ponder is whether or not she will be able to get up in time in the 1 1/16-mile turf route, which doesn’t contain much speed.

Friday’s Eddie D Stakes, honoring Hall of Fame jockey Eddie Delahoussaye, will have a full field, but there is one notable absence.

California Flag, winner of the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint, is not ready for a start this week and will be trained up to the BC Turf Sprint on Nov. 3, trainer Brian Koriner said.

An 8-year-old, California Flag has made one start this year, winning the San Simeon Handicap on the hillside turf course in April.

The Eddie D field includes Shrug, winner of the Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar last month.

Richard’s Kid, who finished third in the $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 26, will start in Saturday’s $250,000 Awesome Again Stakes, a key prep for the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 3.

Richard’s Kid will be racing for trainer Doug O’Neill, who will return to training Friday after serving a 40-day suspension for a 2010 medication violation. The suspension ends Thursday, allowing O’Neill to resume normal activity Friday.

In August, Richard’s Kid was sold to a partnership led by Triple B Farms. The Pacific Classic was his first start for the new partners.

Second City, winner of the British Columbia Derby at Hastings Park who was recently acquired by Paul Reddam, will make his next start in the $500,000 Indiana Derby at Hoosier Park on Oct. 6, trainer Ben Cecil said.

Second City is scheduled to arrive at Cecil’s stable at Santa Anita later this week.

A gelding by Distorted Humor, Second City is unbeaten in four starts at Penn National, Charles Town, and Hastings. The British Columbia Derby on Sept. 9 was his stakes debut.

Trainer John Mazza has been awarded the Buddy Raines Distinguished Achievment Award for his years of service to the New Jersey Thoroughbred racing industry. Mazza has trained in New Jersey for 46 years and won the first race run at the Meadowlands when the track opened in 1977.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Forced into a pace duel in the Chicago Handicap on June 30 at Arlington, Honey Chile folded up and finished fourth. Among the horses sweeping past her was Maude S, who ran on to finish second. But Thursday’s featured third race, of which Honey Chile and Maude S are a part, might unfold much differently than the Chicago Handicap.

Eight fillies and mares were entered in a 6 1/2-furlong Polytrack sprint with multiple high-end allowance conditions and a $100,000 claiming option. Honey Chile looks like the only one of them with true early speed.

ELMONT, N.Y. – When Adam Wachtel and Nils Brous first met seven years ago, they were trying to buy a clothing company. While that deal didn’t materialize, the two have become a pretty good fit in the world of Thoroughbred racing.

Wachtel, 50, has had a lifelong involvement in racing, having been introduced to it by his father, Edward, a longtime breeder and owner in New York. Brous, 48, has long been a fan of the game and expected to one day get involved in ownership.