DEL MAR, Calif. – The lightly raced but promising female turf sprinter She’s Devoted, whose career has been interrupted by injury, returns to action in race 7 on Sunday at Del Mar, a five-furlong turf sprint for first-level allowance runners, or those in for a $40,000 claiming price.

She’s Devoted has a history of running well fresh. She won her debut in January 2020, then was off until last November, when she won an allowance turf sprint at Del Mar. She has not raced since Jan. 16, when fourth in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Sprint at Santa Anita.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Several local horses who missed Breeders’ Cup races owing to ill-timed injuries are making good progress, their trainers reported Friday.

Express Train, who had to be scratched from the Classic after injuring a hock in a paddock schooling incident, has gone back to the track for training, John Shirreffs said while watching his horses train Friday morning at Del Mar.

“He’s progressing nicely,” said Shirreffs, who said he had no firm plans for a next start for Express Train, but added the horse will stay in training for 2022 at age 5.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It’s hard to imagine a scenario wherein Maxfield would have gotten past Knicks Go to win the Breeders’ Cup Classic last weekend. In that respect, skipping the $6 million race and waiting instead for the $750,000 Clark at Churchill Downs was a sage move by trainer Brendan Walsh.

But to make it an even better decision, “we still have to go out and win the Clark,” Walsh said.

All-sources handle for the recently concluded Belmont Park fall meet was $320,746,749, which represents a 19.7 percent increase from the 2020 meet and a 16.6 percent increase over the 2019 meet, according to the New York Racing Association.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Chateau, winner of the Grade 3 Tom Fool Handicap in March at Aqueduct, could target the Grade 3, $200,000 Fall Highweight Handicap for his next start, trainer Rob Atras said Wednesday.

After winning the Tom Fool, Chateau finished fourth in the Grade 1 Carter, second in the Grade 3 Runhappy, and third in the Lite the Fuse at Pimlico before getting a break.

Chateau came off a two-month layoff with a last-place finish in an allowance at Parx Racing.

Atras said that jockey Kendrick Carmouche told him Chateau didn’t get a hold of the track at Parx.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Rinaldi scratched out of last Saturday’s $200,000 Mohawk Stakes against New York-breds at Belmont Park to run in Saturday’s $150,000 Artie Schiller Stakes against open company at Aqueduct.

Rinaldi, trained by James Bond, was one of 10 turf horses entered Wednesday for Saturday’s Artie Schiller. There also were two entered to run only if the race is transferred to the main track.

Bond cited several reasons for scratching out of the richer restricted stakes to run in this open-company event going a mile.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Americanrevolution, who earned a 108 Beyer Speed Figure for his victory in the Empire Classic on Oct. 30, is under strong consideration for the Grade 1, $750,000 Cigar Mile on Dec. 4, trainer Todd Pletcher said Wednesday.

Americanrevolution, a 3-year-old son of Constitution, won the Empire Classic for New York-breds by 11 3/4 lengths. He ran a one-turn 1 1/8 miles in 1:49.11.

Apollitical Patty, who won two of the leading stakes at Los Alamitos in the last year, has been retired after being pulled up because of apparent exhaustion after Sunday’s $925,650 Los Alamitos Super Derby.

Trainer Monty Arrossa said Monday that Apollitical Patty did not sustain an injury when second to Flash Bak in the Super Derby.

“She tied up a little bit,” he said. “She looked great when we got her back to the barn.”

Jessica Pyfer’s days as an apprentice jockey end after Saturday’s program at Del Mar.

Sunday, the 23-year-old college graduate will begin racing without a five-pound allowance, hoping to prove she can make the sometimes difficult transition to a full-fledged journeyman rider.

“I’ll keep doing what I’m doing,” Pyfer said last weekend. “There is nothing you can change.”

Edgeway, second to Ce Ce in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar last Saturday, was withdrawn from the Keeneland November breeding stock sale on Wednesday and will remain in training in 2022.

Trainer John Sadler said on Wednesday that a decision was made earlier this week not to offer Edgeway at auction, and to pursue a 2022 campaign geared toward a return to the BC Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland next November.