The Buddy Delp Memorial isn’t even part of Delaware Park’s regular stakes schedule. Despite its modest $50,000 purse, the overnight stakes on Wednesday’s card attracted three horses who have finished first in a Grade 3 stakes within the past 15 months.

The millionaire 7-year-old Arson Squad, joined by 4-year-olds Win Willy and Our Edge, provide more than a touch of class to a six-horse field for the 1 1/16-mile Delp, named in honor of the Hall of Fame trainer who shares the track record with Scott Lake for most consecutive leading trainer titles with seven from 1963 to 1969.

While gross handle fell precipitously because of fewer race dates, average all-sources handle at the Turfway Park meet that ended Sunday was down less than 3 percent, according to figures released Monday by the Florence, Ky., track.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The connections of Haynesfield found out Saturday what they were hoping to learn eight months earlier – that their New York-bred colt is indeed Grade 1 material.

Haynesfield’s four-length, gate-to-wire victory in Saturday’s $750,000 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park may have been the product of a quality speed horse getting loose on the lead. But it was also the product of a pattern of patience displayed by owner Harvey Weinstein and Toby Sheets, Steve Asmussen’s Belmont-based assistant trainer who has overseen the colt’s training throughout his career.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A six-furlong turf sprint Wednesday at Hollywood Park will determine the autumn campaign for California-bred stakes winner La Nez.

If she runs well Wednesday in the second-level allowance, La Nez will return at the same distance over the same course Oct. 30 in the $100,000 California Cup Distaff.

“We’ll see if it is feasible, see if she handles the grass” trainer Eric Kruljac said.

HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – The first race at Pinnacle Race Course was delayed nearly 20 minutes Sunday when horsemen scrambled to secure riders after four jockeys, including the three leaders, failed breathalyzer tests just before the first race.

ALBANY, Calif. – Trainer Steve Sherman won the Golden Gate Fields summer meet trainer’s title Sunday when favored Savan’ Brianne won the feature race to give Sherman his 22nd victory.

Sherman and Billy Morey had started the day tied with 20 wins each.

Sherman won the first race with Luberon, but Morey tied him by saddling I’m Going Places, who won the second race.

I’m Going Places was Morey’s final entrant of the meet, while Sherman had four more runners. He finished second with Candy Five Hundred in the fifth before Savan’ Brianne’s victory in the eighth race.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Da-DING Ding.

Mike Smith’s cell phone sat on a table in the Hollywood Park press lounge late Saturday afternoon and seemed to come alive every minute with a chime, indicating the arrival of a new text message.

Less than two hours earlier, Smith had ridden Zenyatta to a win in the $250,000 Lady’s Secret Stakes, extending her unbeaten streak to 19 races. Across the nation, Smith’s friends were offering near-constant modern-day congratulations. By the time he was done riding on Saturday, he had 84 messages.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Impossible Time, one of the leading older fillies and mares at Woodbine, should be formidable at a short price Wednesday night in the $125,000 Classy ‘n Smart Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile route on Polytrack.

Impossible Time, a 5-year-old trained by Roger Attfield, has won 7 of 13 career starts, which includes a 4-for-7 record this year. Her only loss at the meet came when she rallied for second behind front-runner Moonlit Beauty in the seven-furlong Zadracarta Stakes on the grass.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Southdale had experimented with turf racing here at Woodbine this summer, finishing third in the 1 1/8-mile King Edward and fifth in the seven-furlong Play the King.

“The turf program here is so lucrative, you’ve got to give it a shot,” said Ian Black, who trains the homebred 4-year-old Southdale for Rod Ferguson. “It worked out in the end, anyway.”

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Through the final quarter-mile of Sunday’s $250,000 Clement Hirsch Turf Championship, Champ Pegasus’s chances of winning went from dim to glowing.

He was seventh with two furlongs remaining, seemingly going nowhere. Then, as he settled into the stretch, Champ Pegasus launched a rally that carried him to the front of the Grade 1 race over 1 1/4 miles on turf.

“We planned the whole thing that way,” trainer Richard Mandella deadpanned in the winner’s circle.