MIAMI – Trainer Patrick Biancone had to wait out Mother Nature for a few days before finally getting in his final serious work for Breeders’ Cup Sprint-bound Diamond Oops, who went five furlongs in 59.40 seconds over a fast track at the Palm Meadows training center Monday.

Steady rains have pelted the local area for the past week. Diamond Oops was originally scheduled to breeze last Friday, but track conditions were such that Biancone was forced to wait another 72 hours before giving his star the green light.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita completed a truncated 16-day autumn meeting Sunday with an 11-race program that drew the second-highest all-sources handle of the meet, according to figures released to the media on a daily basis.

Boosted by interest in a mandatory payout in the pick six, all-sources handle on Sunday reached $11.2 million, slightly less than the $12.5 million wagered on Sept. 26, the first Saturday of the meeting.

King Fury earned a program-high 79 Beyer Speed Figure for his half-length victory Sunday in the Street Sense, which was co-featured with its filly counterpart, the Rags to Riches, on an 11-race Stars of Tomorrow opening-day card. Coach, winner of the Rags to Riches, got a 71 Beyer when staying unbeaten in three starts.

Maxfield, the undefeated Godolphin homebred, had his first breeze since recovering from injury, going three furlongs in 37.40 seconds on Sunday over a fast track at Keeneland.

Maxfield was prepping for the Blue Grass Stakes when he suffered a condylar fracture of his right front in a June 10 workout at Keeneland. Following surgery, the Street Sense colt returned to light training at Churchill in mid-September before trainer Brendan Walsh sent him to Keeneland in early October.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For more than 20 years, Pat Day was the perennial leading rider at Kentucky racetracks. When Day retired in 2005, Rafael Bejarano inherited his role, but he soon left for California, after which Julien Leparoux took a turn.

Jockey Heriberto Figueroa has been suspended three days and top jockey Flavien Prat was fined $300 for violations of new whip rules put in place earlier this month in California that limit jockeys to six under-handed strikes during a race.

Figueroa was cited for his ride on Savvy Gal, the winner of the seventh race on Oct. 18. Figueroa was penalized for using the whip more than six times and not in an under-handed position on Savvy Gal, who won a $32,000 claimer at 5 1/2 furlongs on turf at 12-1.

Santa Anita has scheduled eight stakes, including six graded races, for the opening weekend of the winter-spring meeting on Dec. 26-27.

The full stakes schedule will be released in November, racing officials said Sunday.

The Dec. 26 card will have six stakes, including three Grade 1 races for 3-year-olds worth $300,000 each – the Malibu Stakes at seven furlongs, the La Brea Stakes for fillies at seven furlongs, and the American Oaks at 1 1/4 miles on turf for fillies.

The recent Woodbine stakes winners Say the Word and Count Again have joined trainer Phil D’Amato’s stable and are likely to race at Del Mar next month.

D’Amato said Sunday that Mark Martinez’s Agave Racing has purchased an ownership share in Say the Word and Count Again, 5-year-old geldings who were first and fourth in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer Stakes at 1 1/2 miles on turf at Woodbine on Oct. 18. Those horses raced for Sam-Son Farm, who retains a portion of ownership, D’Amato said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It’s hard to win any Triple Crown, especially the Canadian Triple Crown, which is contested on three different surfaces. Everything has to go perfectly, which wasn’t the case in Mighty Heart’s bid for the sweep in Saturday’s $401,200 Breeders’ Stakes.

Led by the sprinter C Z Rocket, California trainer Peter Miller plans to have four runners in three Breeders’ Cup races at Keeneland on Nov. 6-7.

C Z Rocket will be pre-entered in the BC Sprint and BC Dirt Mile, both on Nov. 7, with the BC Sprint as the 6-year-old gelding’s first preference, Miller said Sunday.

C Z Rocket won the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 29 to earn a fees-paid berth in the Dirt Mile, and won the Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship at six furlongs on Sept. 27 to earn a fees-paid berth in the BC Sprint.