Trainer Mark Glatt is eager to try Beer Can Man in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 6 at Del Mar after the colt’s second-place finish in the Grade 3 Turf Monster Stakes on Saturday at Parx Racing.

That is, if Beer Can Man can earn a berth in what is likely to be a crowded field.

The BC Turf Sprint is run at five furlongs. Beer Can Man won an allowance race at five furlongs on turf on Aug. 13 at Del Mar in his first start since February and was beaten 1 1/4 lengths by the longshot Hollywood Talent in the $300,000 Turf Monster Stakes, also at five furlongs.

Smooth Like Strait, already assured of a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar on Nov. 6, will have a final prep race in the Grade 2 City of Hope Mile at Santa Anita next Saturday.

Trainer Michael McCarthy watched Smooth Like Strait work five furlongs in 59 seconds at Santa Anita on Saturday in a manner that left him confident the 4-year-old can give a peak effort over the weekend and be ready for the BC Mile.

“We’re going to give it a long, hard look,” McCarthy said.

The last time Express Train ran 1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita he won the Grade 2 San Pasqual Stakes in January.

In five subsequent starts, Express Train has one win – the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at 1 1/16 miles at Del Mar in July. Express Train is back in a race at 1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita in Saturday’s Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes.

This time, the stakes are more valuable than in January.

Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said that Chance It suffered a soft-tissue injury during the running of Saturday’s Grade 2 Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park, placing his racing future in doubt. Jockey Manny Franco pulled up Chance It down the backstretch of the Kelso.

Joseph said the injury was similar to the one that forced Chance It to the sidelines for 14 months following the 2020 Tampa Bay Derby.

ELMONT, N.Y. - When Maxfield runs in next Saturday’s Grade 1 Woodward at Belmont Park, he will likely do so in blinkers, equipment he has yet to wear in a race.

On a beautiful Saturday morning at Belmont Park, Maxfield worked a half-mile in 49.59 seconds over the main track, wearing a small set of blinkers, commonly referred to as cheaters. Jockey Jose Ortiz was aboard for the move, which Daily Racing Form timed in 24.88 seconds for the quarter, 49.59 for the half, with a five-furlong gallop-out in 1:02.31 and up six furlongs in 1:14.95.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gulfstream Park officially ushered in the Tapeta era when opening the newly installed course for training shortly before 10 a.m. on Friday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Baby Yoda, who earned a whopping 114 Beyer Speed Figure for winning a first-level allowance race Sept. 4 at Saratoga, is under consideration for the Grade 2, $250,000 Vosburgh Stakes on Oct. 9, trainer Bill Mott said.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Maxfield, runner-up to Knicks Go in the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga, heads a field of six expected to run in the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodward Stakes here Oct. 2.

Maxfield, with seven wins from nine starts, will be looking for his first Grade 1 victory since he took the Breeders’ Futurity at 2 in 2019. Trainer Brendan Walsh shipped Maxfield from Saratoga – where he was stabled most of the summer – to Belmont Park earlier in the week. He was scheduled to have his final breeze over Belmont’s main track on Saturday.

Peter Tunney, the longtime racing executive at Golden Gate Fields in Northern California, died Wednesday after a lengthy illness, his family and friends said Thursday.

Tunney, 83, died at his home in Piedmont, Calif., not far from Golden Gate Fields.

The son of a racing official and steward, Tunney began his involvement in racing in the 1960s, working as a racing official at Southern California tracks, including Del Mar where he was the racing secretary for three years from 1972-74.

Charmaine’s Mia began 2021 with three consecutive graded stakes wins in turf races at six furlongs and a mile at Santa Anita only to follow that success with sixth-place finishes in two important races in the spring and summer.

The versatile 5-year-old’s season will change again this fall when she starts for the first time on Santa Anita’s unique hillside turf course and faces males in the Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on Oct. 1, opening day of the track’s five-week autumn meeting.