ELMONT, N.Y. – Pinckney Hill hopes to revert to his early-season form when he takes a drop in class for Sunday’s $60,000 Keep the Promise Stakes at Belmont Park. The Keep the Promise, run at 1 1/16 miles over the Widener turf course, is the first race on a 10-race card that is highlighted by the Grade 3, $100,000 Noble Damsel Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf.

Health officials at Highland General Hospital in Oakland agreed late on Friday to release medical records related to the spinal-cord injury suffered by jockey Michael Martinez to specialists in Chicago who are capable of conducting experimental treatments for paralysis, according to Golden Gate Fields’s track physician and the rider’s attorney.

Allowed to race uncontested on the lead under Jose Lezcano, Lubash pulled off a 35-1 upset in Friday’s $60,000 Fifth Marine Stakes over a yielding Widener turf course at Belmont Park.

Lubash ($72.50), a New York-bred 3-year-old son of Freud, went in fractions of 24.87 seconds, 49.93, and 1:13.83, and covered one mile in 1:38.32 while finishing 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Lighthouse Sound. It was another 2 1/2 lengths back to Asphalt.

Mine Over Matter, the only 3-year-old in a field of five, rallied past co-favorites Giant Moon and Manteca outside the eighth pole and drew clear to a 3 3/4-length victory in Friday’s $60,000 Salute Me Sir Stakes at Belmont Park.

Giant Moon, who pressed the pacesetting Manteca, held second by 1 1/4 lengths over Naughty New Yorker. Manteca, the actual betting favorite by $3,000 over Giant Moon, was fourth followed by Too Tough Pete, who leapt at the break.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Going into Friday’s racing action at Arlington Park, Michael Baze held a 93-90 lead over Junior Alvarado in the race for leading jockey this meet. Or did he?

OCEANPORT, N.J. – The improving Debonair Darling faces her toughest test Sunday in the $75,000 Politely Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.

A 4-year-old trained by Greg Sacco, Debonair Darling makes her stakes debut against nine rivals in the 1 1/16-mile race.

She has run four times this year, all at Monmouth, with three seconds and a third in second-level allowances.

Sacco had hoped to knock off that condition before sending Debonair Darling into the stakes fray. But time and circumstances have a way of changing plans.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A full field of 12 is expected to start in the Grade 3, $150,000 British Columbia Derby at Hastings next Sunday. The 1 1/8-mile B.C. Derby headlines a weekend that features eight stakes races.

The $75,000 B.C. Oaks tops the Saturday day card that will have four stakes for females: the 1 1/8-mile Delta Coleen for fillies and mares; $50,000 Fantasy for 2-year-old fillies stretching out to a 1 1/16 miles, and the Derby Bar and Grill Ladies Express for fillies and mares going six furlongs.

POMONA, Calif. – The 2-year-old colt Clubhouse Ride was slow to come around. Five starts into his career, he was still a maiden.

“He was like a teenage kid; he had not figured it out yet,” trainer Craig Lewis said.

But in his sixth start Aug. 14 at Del Mar, Clubhouse Ride extracted himself from trouble and exploded late.

Clubhouse Ride won the six-furlong sprint like a good horse, and the best may be yet to come.

“He’s a big, long horse with a big long stride,” Lewis said. “My impression is he is a two-turn horse.”

The Super Derby status of First Dude and Golden Moka, who are among the top nominees to the Grade 2, $500,000 race that will be run next Saturday at Louisiana Downs, will come into focus over the weekend. Both are set for workouts, and are among the six to eight horses under serious Super Derby consideration in a field that was fluid on Friday.

The Super Derby, at 1 1/8 miles, is the richest race of the meet. It will be the centerpiece of a program of eight stakes worth more than $1 million next Saturday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – It’s a photograph that trainer Chad Brown still finds hard to digest. But the picture of last year’s Noble Damsel Stakes did indeed show Rutherienne’s nose on the wire ahead of Quiet Meadow, even if the body of the jockey of Quiet Meadow was ahead of that of Rutherienne’s rider.

“It looks like we’re ahead, but I’ll take their word for it,” Brown, the trainer of Quiet Meadow said.