MIAMI – It will be like old times Thursday afternoon at Calder when jockey Abigail Fuller climbs aboard Trip for A.J. in the Grade 3 My Charmer Handicap.

If Rapid Redux extends his winning streak to a modern-day United States record 20 races Monday night at Mountaineer Racetrack, he will truly have to earn it.

Although the 5-year-old Rapid Redux has dominated the $5,000 starter allowance ranks throughout the mid-Atlantic region en route to tying the record shared by 2010 Horse of the Year Zenyatta and the New Mexico-bred mare Peppers Pride, there are several potential stumbling blocks in his path when he faces nine other older horses going a mile in Monday’s eighth race.

The 5-year-old gelding Edgewater has kept some classy company this season. Within the past six months, Edgewater raced against three horses who competed in this fall’s Breeders’ Cup, including Drosselmeyer, the upset winner of the $5 million Classic.

Tuesday afternoon at Laurel Park, however, Edgewater will be running for a claiming tag for the first time in his 19-race career.

The class drop could help Edgewater snap a five-race losing streak in Tuesday’s sixth-race feature, a third-level optional $32,000 claimer at one mile on the main track.

INGLEWOOD, Calif.– Jockey Patrick Valenzuela must pass a drug and alcohol test and meet with Hollywood Park stewards before he is allowed to be named to ride in coming weeks, the stewards said on Friday evening.

Valenzuela did not ride on Thursday and was taken off his mounts for the weekend, citing the need to travel to Kansas to be with his fiancee’s family, according to steward Tom Ward and the jockey’s agent, Tom Knust.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Flat Out is being asked to spot his opposition three to nine pounds as the 123-pound highweight for the Clark Handicap, the Grade 1 race that anchors the final week of racing at the Churchill Downs fall meet with its 137th running Friday.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Two jockeys and their mounts appeared to have escaped serious injury in an ugly looking spill in the seventh race Friday at Hawthorne.

Catch the Train, ridden by Brandon Meier, went down at the top of the stretch, rolling over Meier and tripping up trailing No More Talkin, who also fell, sending Inocencio Diego to the ground. Meier was taken to Loyola Medical Center in nearby Maywood complaining of pain in his ribs. Diego, though sore, did not require hospitalization.

The Grade 1 sprinter Euroears will make two starts in coming months before going to stud at JEH Stallion Station in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, owner Jim Helzer said on Thursday.

Euroears finished last of nine in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5, but won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar in July. He is being pointed for the Vernon Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park on Saturday and the Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita in January before going to stud.

“We’re probably going to run him two more times,” Helzer said.

Motor City, winner of the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes on opening day of the Churchill fall meet, will bypass the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes next Saturday, said trainer Ian Wilkes.

“After he came out of his work [Tuesday], I just wasn’t quite happy with him,” said Wilkes. “He’s run five times already this year, so he’s done enough. We’ll take him down to Palm Meadows and get him ready for next year.”

Canterbury Park received approval from the Minnesota Racing Commission on Thursday to conduct a 62-day Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse race meet in 2012. The meet will begin Friday, May 18, and run through Monday, Sept. 3.  Thursday and Friday racing will begin at 7 p.m., with weekend and holiday racing beginning at 1:30 p.m.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Groomedforvictory, who has a history of running big races on Aqueduct’s main track, makes his first start since claimed by trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. back in February and takes on six rival New York-breds in Sunday’s $60,000 Adirondack Holme overnight stakes.