MIAMI – His glory days might be over but trainer Bill Kaplan still has a soft spot in his heart for Imawildandcrazyguy, who goes after his first victory in nearly a year in Monday’s $31,600 optional claiming feature at Calder.

AUBURN, Wash. – The final three races of Friday’s eight-race card at Emerald Downs were canceled after jockeys refused to accept their mounts for the sixth race, citing what they said was an unsafe area of the racing surface near the five-eighths pole.

“Our track superintendent corrected an issue with the track following the fifth race,” Emerald Downs Director of Marketing Adrian Buchan said. “We were confident the track was safe. The jockeys disagreed and would not accept their mounts for the sixth race. We had no other choice but to cancel the remainder of the card.”

DEL MAR, Calif. - There is a record pick six carryover of $1,597,470 for Saturday’s 10-race program at Del Mar, after bettors failed to hit the wager from Wednesday through Friday.

Haimish Hy’s upset win at 31-1 in the El Cajon Stakes on Friday clinched the carryover. Haimish Hy was the longest shot in a field of eight in the one-mile stakes.

The new money bet on Saturday is likely to exceed $4 million. The pick six on Saturday covers the fifth through 10th races on a program that begins at 2 p.m.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Here’s a tip for handicapping next year’s With Anticipation Stakes at Saratoga. Bet the maiden.

For the fourth time in the six-year history of the With Anticipation, a maiden won. Friday, it was Soldat, second in a pair of sprint stakes, who successfully stretched out in distance and who took to the turf with aplomb, cruising to a three-length victory over 2-1 favorite Powhatan County in the Grade 3, $100,000 With Anticipation at Saratoga. It was 3 1/4 lengths back to Typhoon Slew in third.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – For Mike Repole, it’s one goal down, one to go.

After going winless with 36 runners at Saratoga in 2009, it was Repole’s mission to be leading owner at this year’s meet. Entering the final three days of the season, Repole had the owners’ title wrapped up with 13 winners from 44 starters. The second-leading owner is Gary and Mary West with seven winners.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. _ Todd Pletcher already had the strongest crop of 2-year-olds of any trainer on the grounds. Then he got arguably the most impressive juvenile filly winner of the meet sent to him.

Valiant Passion, who overcame traffic trouble to win a 5 1/2-furlong maiden race by 9 1/4 lengths, will make her first start for Pletcher in Sunday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Spinaway Stakes at Saratoga. She is one of four horses Pletcher entered in the Spinaway, a seven-furlong race which drew a field of eight.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Ever since his dazzling 12-length maiden win at Belmont Park nine weeks ago, a lot of people have been waiting for Boys At Tosconova to run back.

The wait ends Monday, when Boys At Tosconova faces six rivals in the Grade 1, $250,000 Hopeful Stakes, the closing-day feature on an 11-race Saratoga card. The Hopeful, run at seven furlongs, tops a card that also includes the Grade 3, $100,000 Glens Falls Stakes for fillies and mares on the turf, featuring the champion Forever Together.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Wednesday’s closing day of the Del Mar meeting will be an awkward afternoon for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert.

When the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity is run, Baffert will be reduced to an expert spectator. Baffert has won the race a record nine times, from 1996 to 2002, and in the last two years. This year, he will not have a starter.

“I know. That’s wrong,” Baffert said Friday, reflecting on the situation.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The fall racing season is about to get a lot more interesting for undefeated Twirling Candy, the likely odds-on favorite Sunday in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby.

Six entered the 1 1/8-mile grass race for 3-year-olds, in which lone front-runner Twirling Candy and improving stretch-runner Kid Edward figure one-two in the cinch exacta of summer.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – It defies logic, but Get Serious seems to be getting stronger in the eyes of trainer John Forbes.

A 6-year-old New York bred gelding, Get Serious has already had four demanding races at Monmouth Park this meet. He could easily rest on his laurels after three wins, including Grade 3 victories in the Monmouth Stakes and the Oceanport Stakes. The lone defeat was a game pacesetting bid in the Grade 1 United Nations.