ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Doug O’Neill sat in an empty grandstand at Santa Anita on Sunday morning, surveying the clear skies and surrounding scene. The morning activity was drawing to a close as two runners from his stable worked on the infield training track.

“What a beautiful day,” O’Neill said.

O’Neill could have said the same thing several times on Saturday.

In the morning, Hot Rod Charlie, the stable’s star 3-year-old, worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 6.

ARCADIA, Calif. - England’s Rose had a busy summer at Del Mar, winning once, with two seconds, in three starts on turf.

The success led to a win in her stakes debut in Saturday’s $78,700 Swingtime Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile on turf at Santa Anita.

The Swingtime was restricted to non-winners of a stakes worth $60,000 or more to the winner at a mile other than statebred races this year.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The Gulfstream Park stewards on Friday suspended jockey Carlos Lugo for 30 calendar day for “failure to persevere” when riding Princess Tereska in the fourth race here on Sunday. Princess Tereska finished a well beaten fourth in a field of nine as the 4-1 third choice in the wagering.

Lugo’s suspension begins this coming Monday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulfstream Park released its stakes schedule for the 2021-22 Championship meeting on Friday, with several notable enhancements, including the inaugural running of the $500,000 Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf.

The Pegasus Filly and Mare Turf, formerly run as the Marshua’s River, will debut on Jan. 29 as part of the undercard for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational and $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational.

The Championship session will open on Dec. 3 and run through April 3.

Sisfahan, winner of the Group 1 German Derby in Hamburg in July, is being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Turf on Nov. 6 at Del Mar, according to published reports.

Sisfahan, trained by Hank Grewe for Darius Racing, started twice against older horses in Group 1 races at 1 1/2 miles in Germany in September. The BC Turf is run at 1 1/2 miles, the same distance as the German Derby.

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Oviatt Class closed from last of seven to finish third in the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes for 2-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita on Oct. 1.

His next start comes in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at the same distance at Del Mar on Nov. 5, and trainer Keith Desormeaux expects Oviatt Class to use a slightly different tactic.

“The horse is so laid back he let himself get too far back,” Desormeaux said. “I believe he can stay a little closer.”

Grade 1 winner Pinehurst and champion Gamine worked Friday at Santa Anita for trainer Bob Baffert in preparation for starts in Breeders’ Cup races on Nov. 5-6 at Del Mar.

Pinehurst, easy winner of the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 6, worked five furlongs in 59.60 seconds. Baffert said last weekend that Pinehurst will not start before the BC Juvenile at 1 1/16 miles.

After a disrupted but ultimately successful trip to New Mexico for the Downs at Albuquerque Handicap last month, Restrainedvengence is bound for the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 6 at Del Mar.

The journey to the starting gate for the Dirt Mile is certain to go smoother than the road trip to Albuquerque.

A few days before the Downs at Albuquerque Handicap, Restrainvengence was in the midst of the 12-hour van ride from Southern California when the truck’s motor conked out near Kingman, Ariz.

For one veteran jockey, the Friday program at Santa Anita next week will be the start of a long-awaited resumption of a career in its fourth decade.

Brice Blanc, who has not ridden since he sustained injuries in a spill at Del Mar in late August 2020, has been working toward a return to riding in the last month. If all goes well in coming days, Blanc will ride on Friday.

Blanc, 48, fractured the C7 vertebra and two ribs and sustained a broken shoulder and dislocated thumb when Great Power clipped heels and fell in a turf race.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Joel Rosario picked up right where he left off six days prior – winning on the Kentucky circuit.

Rosario, who rode five winners on Oct. 2 in his only appearance of the September meet at Churchill Downs, opened the 17-day Keeneland fall meet Friday with another confident ride that resulted in victory.