Chris Pallas experienced the big-time with Mambo Meister and liked it. It has taken longer than he would have preferred, but Pallas might finally be primed for a return to major races with a mare named Shifty She.

“She’s special,” said Pallas, a longtime Fort Lauderdale resident and licensed pharmacist who has owned and bred horses in Florida for more than 20 years.

Shifty She has earned 88 Beyer Speed Figures in back-to-back stakes victories at Gulfstream Park in South Florida, where on Saturday she figures as a solid favorite in the $75,000 Monroe.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Swiss Skydiver, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2020 and winner of the Preakness and Alabama, will be pointed to the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes on Aug. 7, trainer Ken McPeek said Wednesday.

Jockey Leo Salles will not appeal a lengthy suspension for careless riding that bars him from competing at Woodbine for the balance of the meet, until Dec. 5.

Salles was on Arbeit when they impeded Bodie on the far turn in a maiden special weight route on the main track July 11. Keveh Nicholls was unseated but not seriously injured on Bodie, and then missed a week of riding engagements. The stewards took Salles off his remaining mounts on the July 11 card and then issued the suspension on July 15.

Next Sunday’s $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile test for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies, could have two unbeaten sprinters in the lineup, Lorena and Jilli Marie.

Lorena, by hot Ontario sire Souper Speedy, aced her stakes debut in the seven-furlong Fury here July 10, winning in front-running style over an anti-speed track.

“She’s just so genuine,” trainer Stu Simon said. “She’s the real deal. When you look at the schedule, you run in the Oaks, and then she runs back in the Bison City Stakes or the sales stakes. I honestly think there’s no doubt that she’ll two-turn.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Jockey Luis Cardenas will miss about two weeks of action after suffering a concussion as the result of a spill in Friday’s last race at Saratoga.

Cardenas was aboard Strong Momentum when that horse fell in the stretch -- suffering a catastrophic leg fracture -- hurling Cardenas hard to the turf. Cardenas said he was unconscious for almost 2 1/2 hours.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- Tuesdays are generally the quietest day around the racetrack, with work tabs usually on the light side barring unforeseen circumstances, such as two consecutive days of rain which left both the main track and Oklahoma training surface wet and for the most part off-limits to workers here on both Sunday and Monday mornings.

In a battle of 5-year-old English Channel geldings, it was Bizzee Channel up by a neck over Two Emmys in the Grade 3 Arlington Stakes last Saturday.

Two Emmys led for much of the 1 3/16-mile Arlington, but Bizzee Channel and Jareth Loveberry slipped through along the fence in upper stretch, and the two horses engaged in a prolonged duel from which Bizzee Channel emerged victorious.

The margin was narrow, but Larry Rivelli, Bizzee Channel’s trainer, said his horse had plenty left in the tank.

When Naval Laughter won an Arlington maiden race on June 3 by almost 20 lengths, earning a stakes-level 96 Beyer Speed Figure, she seemed, more than anything, like a curiosity. The filly hadn’t raced in 19 months and went to the lead over Arlington’s speed-favoring Polytrack while facing a suspect group of non-winners, circumstances ripe for a performance that might not truly have represented Naval Laughter’s baseline.

DEL MAR, Calif. – All-sources handle at Del Mar from July 7-18 soared in comparison to a similar time frame in 2020, according to a track statement. The handle figures include Del Mar’s opening weekend of racing as well as simulcast betting before the meet opened.

Los Alamitos closed its daytime Thoroughbred meet July 5, and Del Mar was awarded California’s simulcast dates beginning July 7. There was no racing in Southern California from the end of the Los Alamitos meet until Del Mar opened on July 16.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainers Richard Baltas and Tim Yakteen were fined $500 by Del Mar stewards on Sunday for their involvement in a physical altercation following an argument during morning training at Santa Anita in late April.

They were cited for disorderly conduct in the incident, which involved intervention by Santa Anita security.