HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Friday’s 10-race program will close out with a pair of $47,000 allowance events. And while there should be considerable interest in the field of promising 2-year-olds who’ll square off at a mile on the grass in the ninth race, the primary focus this day will be on the nightcap, which marks the 34th and likely final start in the amazing career of the 10-year-old turf-sprint specialist Pay Any Price.

Trainer Peter Miller, who is based in Southern California, said he plans to have a 12- to 15-horse division at Oaklawn Park, which starts its meet Jan. 22.

“The end of December, early January, we’ll be shipping over there,” Miller said. “We’ve got some coming from California. Half of the horses will come from California, and the other half from Kentucky.”

Miller has a division in Kentucky. Home Base, who has been at Churchill, could be part of the Oaklawn string, Miller said. The horse runs Friday at Aqueduct.

Alex Baldillez established himself as an elite Quarter Horse rider during a 40-year career that included a win in the prestigious All American Futurity. Now, he’s training Thoroughbreds.

Baldillez, who retired from riding in 2015, launched a racing stable this fall at Remington Park. He registered his first win Dec. 3 with Implicator in a maiden special weight route. It was the fifth starter for Baldillez.

“I’m used to being in the saddle,” he said. “It felt awkward to leg up that first jockey on my first horse – then it’s out of my hands.”

Dr. Schivel, unraced since a win in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 7, is nearing a return to the racetrack after being given a rest in autumn.

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“He comes in in the next few days,” trainer Mark Glatt said on Wednesday. “We’ll do some diagnostic work on him and hopefully he gets the green light to resume training.

Uncle Boogie earned $12,650 when he won a $32,000 claiming race for maidens at Santa Anita in October in his debut.

It would cost a little more than half of that amount to supplement Uncle Boogie to the Grade 2 Los Alamitos Futurity on Dec. 19. Wednesday, trainer Andrew Lerner said he and owner Eric Homme are trying to decide whether to pay the money and run Uncle Boogie in the Futurity, or run him in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at a mile at Santa Anita on Jan. 2. The $100,000 Sham Stakes is the first graded stakes for Triple Crown hopefuls at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting.

The busiest jockey at Los Alamitos on Friday will be the leading rider after the first three days of the track’s December meeting.

Apprentice jockey Alexis Centeno is booked to ride all eight races on the Friday program. Through Sunday, Centeno led all riders with four wins, closely pursued by four riders with three wins – Abel Cedillo, Drayden Van Dyke, Juan Hernandez, and Ricardo Gonzalez. The 11-day Los Alamitos meeting runs through Dec. 20 and the riding title may not be decided until that day.

There are plenty of really good horses stabled in New Orleans this winter. A bunch reside in the Brad Cox barn, but trainer Steve Asmussen has a loaded Fair Grounds stable, too.

Quite a bit of the high-end talent worked this week, including a horse who never has started for Asmussen. Shancelot breezed five furlongs Tuesday in 1:00.40, his fifth work at Fair Grounds since Asmussen sent him there in November. Shancelot had breezed steadily through July in Kentucky, but Asmussen had to stop on him over the summer before ramping up the pace of Shancelot’s exercsise.

Average daily handle at the Aqueduct fall meet was $9,261,276, an increase of 12.8 percent over the daily average of $8,209,988 handled at the 2019 Aqueduct fall meet.

All-sources handle on 175 races conducted over 18 programs this fall was $166,702,976 while all-sources handle in 2019 was $205,249,710 on 233 races run over 25 programs. The 2019 Thanksgiving Day program was canceled due to weather. The final five races of the Dec. 1, 2019 card were also canceled.

Handle on the 2020 Cigar Mile Day card was $11,645,229, down 37 percent from last year’s handle of $18,518,056.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Bodexpress, who upset the Clark at Churchill Downs last month for his first Grade 1 win, has been retired, his connections reported on Monday. Bodexpress was expected to be among the leading candidates for the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational here on Jan. 23.

Trainer Jamey Thomas has been fined $3,000 and suspended 15 days for a medication violation at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton in July, according to a ruling published by Los Alamitos stewards on Sunday.

Cozze Kid tested positive for the analgesic gabapentin when third in a $20,000 claimer for fillies and mares on July 10. The purse was ordered redistributed for the third through sixth-place finishers in a ruling published by Golden Gate Fields stewards on Oct. 31.