DEL MAR, Calif. – Gotta Have Her has been a mainstay on the Southern California circuit for four seasons, but the move of the Oak Tree meeting from Santa Anita, where she is a terror on the downhill turf course, to Hollywood Park is likely to force her to head out of town for her next start, according to trainer Jenine Sahadi.

“Losing the hill, that was devastating for me,” Sahadi said after Gotta Have Her successfully defended her title Monday at Del Mar in the Grade 2, $150,000 Palomar Handicap for older female turf horses. “We may run in the mile turf race at Keeneland.”

FLORENCE, Ky. – Unlike previous Septembers at Turfway Park, when the prestigious Kentucky Cup brought the fall meet to a crescendo late in the month, the fall-meet highlight is coming early this year.

The Turfway Park Fall Championship – the only stakes race left at the meet after the Kentucky Cup was canceled – will be run this Saturday on the third of 16 fall programs. And even then, the Grade 3, $100,000 race could be overshadowed somewhat.

FLORENCE, Ky. – They’re just skipping the Kentucky Cup for a year – hopefully. Or at least that’s the kind of happy-face spin that the folks at beleaguered Turfway Park feel compelled to put on the 16-day fall meet that begins Thursday night.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Monday was a bad day to be a favorite in a yearling sales stakes here as all six, including three at odds-on, bit the dust.

It was a particularly good day to be trainer Liz Charalambous or apprentice rider Omar Moreno, however, as both recorded their first stakes victory.

The stakes were for horses who went through the ring at the local Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s yearling sale.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Nice Lady nearly got the job done the last time she cut back from a route to a sprint, and she could be up to snuff on the turnback in Thursday’s Woodbine feature, a nonwinners-of-three allowance for Ontario-sired females.

Nice Lady was a bargain $9,500 claim from her season opener April 16 by trainer Scott Fairlie, who subsequently won a nonwinners-of-two Ontario-sired allowance with her, earning a hefty $35,820. She has competed exclusively at Thursday’s level since then, with mixed success.

Average daily all-sources handle at Monmouth Park for the New Jersey track’s 49-day “Elite Summer Meet” shot up 213 percent over last year, according to figures released by the track Monday night after the meet’s final card.

OPELOUSAS, La. - Smoke It Right, a runaway maiden winner in his only other start, won his stakes debut impressively in the $50,000 Lafayette Stakes Monday night at Evangeline Downs. Secret Ride rallied through the stretch to report home eight lengths back in second, followed by Jump Jump and Cool Stream in the traditional closing-night feature for 2-year-olds.

A fire early Monday morning in three horse barns adjacent to the Charles Town Races in Ranson, W.Va., has killed at least 27 horses, while another 20 were rescued, according to Lenny Hale, the executive director of the Charles Town Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association. The cause of the fire is under investigation, although media reports have quoted local fire officials as saying it probably was accidental.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - Wooden Ya Know It battled on the lead throughout and drew off for a 3 1/4-length win, then survived a claim of foul in an eventful renewal of the $10,750 Labor Day Stakes at Columbus on Monday afternoon.

Don’twaitforme led every step of the way in the $53,546 Richmond Derby Trial at Hastings on Monday. The Derby Trial is the final prep for the Grade 3, $150,000 B.C. Derby on Sept. 26.