INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Aaron Gryder, who won the $6 million Dubai World Cup in March but has struggled in recent months to find mounts in Southern California, is relocating to Hong Kong this weekend, he said on Wednesday.

Gryder said he will stay in Hong Kong at least through March, the term of his visa, and may stay until the end of the race season next July.

Gryder, 39, said his win on Well Armed in Dubai, combined with riding briefly in Hong Kong in June, has led to further interest in riding overseas.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Todd Pletcher has not ruled out running Quality Road in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile here Nov. 28, but there is a lot of work that needs to be done to make that goal a reality.

Trainers Paul Jones and Adan Farias will start at least half of the 10 horses in the $750,000 Champion of Champions on Dec. 12 and could have more than that after time trials are run for the nation's most important race for older Quarter Horses later this month.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Presious Passion, Piscitelli, and Bickersons, the three New Jersey-based horses in last weekend's Breeders' Cup, all came through the experience unscathed.

While they didn't bring back a championship to the Garden State, Presious Passion and Piscitelli turned in terrific efforts.

True to form, Presious Passion opened a huge lead in the Turf. It took a determined effort from defending champion Conduit to edge by in the final stages as Presious Passion held on gamely for second.

Rule will likely return to Delta Downs for next month's Grade 3, $750,000 Jackpot for 2-year-olds following his track-record performance in last weekend's local prep for the race, the $175,000 Jean Lafitte. Trainer Todd Pletcher said the horse has since shipped back to Churchill Downs.

"We hope to come back for the Delta Jackpot, if everything goes well," he said.

Several Breeders' Cup participants had connections to Northern California, including John Shirreffs, who saddled Zenyatta to victory in the Breeders' Cup Classic, and, of course, Jerry Hollendorfer, who saddled Blind Luck to finish third in the Juvenile Fillies.

Shirreffs, 64, who also won the Ladies' Classic with Life Is Sweet, has roots in Northern California from his days of training for Henry Freitas of Loma Rica Ranch in the late 70s. Shirreffs's first stakes victory came with Jade Ring in the John Peri Stakes at Stockton in 1980.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Jockey Chris Emigh was taken to a Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville Wednesday afternoon for observation after being unseated during the running of the sixth race at Churchill Downs.

Emigh fell to the Churchill Downs grass course entering the second turn of a one-mile race for juvenile fillies when his mount, Silent Candy, clipped the heels of Dreaminofjosphenine. He crashed heavily to the turf, but fell to the outside, appearing to avoid his stumbling mount and staying clear of the horses in the rest of the pack.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The total all-sources live handle at the recently concluded Hastings meet dropped by more than 17 percent compared with 2008. The total handle from 74 days of racing in 2009 was $40,620,917 compared with $49,716,774 from 71 days last year.

The average all-sources handle of $548,931 was down by 21 percent from last year's average of $700,236. The total bet per race was off by 18 percent.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - This year's Woodbine-based hopefuls for the Breeders' Cup didn't managed to crack the top three in their respective events.

Careless Jewel, trained by Josie Carroll and ridden by Robert Landry, was the 9-5 favorite in last Friday's but faltered badly to finish last in the field of eight.

Fatal Bullet, trained by Reade Baker and ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, was in the thick of things for much of Saturday's but tired in the late stages to finish 2 1/2 lengths behind the winner in sixth.

A fund has been established at Fifth Third Bank in Kentucky to assist with the cost of rehabilitation for jockey Julia Brimo, who suffered head and back injuries in an Oct. 30 spill at Keeneland.

Brimo, who galloped for trainer Ronny Werner and rode some of his horses at Turfway Park earlier this fall, continues to improve each day but still faces a long road to recovery, the trainer's wife, Cindy Werner, said Monday. Cindy Werner was responsible for establishing the aid fund.