Plans are being finalized for makeshift accommodations at Turfway Park, where the backside is undergoing repairs and other upgrades prior to opening for horsemen on Nov. 1.

An 11-race card with the traditional Stars of Tomorrow format will be staged for the limited number of fans in attendance Sunday at Churchill Downs in Louisville, where a pair of $98,000 stakes will serve as the opening-day highlights.

Entries will be drawn Thursday for the Street Sense and Rags to Riches, the 1 1/16-mile co-features, with maiden-special and allowances making up the balance of a card exclusively for 2-year-olds. The Street Sense and Rags to Riches lead to the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club and Grade 2 Golden Rod on Nov. 28.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Tiz the Law, one of the top contenders for the Nov. 7 Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland, arrived at Keeneland on Sunday from New York and was out for an easy jog early Monday with trainer Barclay Tagg alongside on his stable pony.

“Everything is good,” said Tagg. “He’ll probably breeze Friday or Saturday and we’ll go from there.”

Tagg said he and Heather Smullen, the exercise rider for Tiz the Law, drove down from New York, pulling into Keeneland about two hours before the colt arrived following a long van ride.

MIAMI – The Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile is now under consideration for Bodexpress following his near record-setting performance in Saturday’s allowance feature at Gulfstream Park West.

Bodexpress led throughout while cruising to a one-sided 11 1/4-length tally as the 2-5 favorite here Saturday, his final time of 1:42.53 just .01 slower than Mr. Jordan’s 1 1/16-mile course record set nearly two years earlier. Bodexpress would have likely broken the mark had jockey Emisael Jaramillo not eased up on him some through the final 40 yards with the outcome no longer in doubt.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jockey Rafael Hernandez recorded his first Grade 1 stakes victory on Etoile in Sunday’s $630,000 E.P. Taylor, giving him a meet-leading 12 stakes wins.

When the smoke cleared after Sunday’s excellent 11-race card, Justin Stein led the rider standings by a 103-102 count over Hernandez. Stein, who won the Grade 2 Nearctic on Silent Poet, is scheduled to serve a three-day suspension from Oct. 30-Nov. 1, which could be appealed.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – By sending out three winners Sunday, Brad Cox assumed the lead atop the Keeneland trainer standings in what might well be a down-to-the-wire battle with Mike Maker.

Cox leads 11-10 into the final week. He has entries in seven races through Friday, while Maker has eight entries (in six races) during that same span. Entries for Saturday, closing day, will be drawn Wednesday. Churchill Downs starts its fall meet Sunday.

Among jockeys, Tyler Gaffalione starts the week with an 18-12 lead over Florent Geroux.

Rematch in Mrs. Revere

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Trainer Dale Romans has been poring over the Churchill condition book for a race for Dennis’ Moment, the star-crossed colt who went to the sidelines following a last-place finish in the Feb. 29 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park. Dennis’ Moment breezed five furlongs Saturday in 1:00.20 in his fourth work on the comeback trail.

“We basically started all over with him,” Romans said. “He’s back with the right attitude. Wherever we run him, he’s going to run big.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – With the stakes schedule already exhausted, allowances will serve as the daily features for the final four-day stretch of the 17-day Keeneland fall meet.

Starting the week are a pair of filly and mare allowances serving as co-features of an eight-race Wednesday card that begins at the usual 1:05 p.m. Eastern.

Race 6 is a $73,000, second-level turf route in which Pass the Plate (post 2, Julien Leparoux) takes a rare drop out of stakes company as the likely favorite for Silverton Hill and trainer Paul McGee.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Ian Wilkes has been in racing long enough to know its ups and downs. The 55-year-old native of Australia has experienced the pinnacle of the sport, having won the Breeders’ Cup Classic in 2012 with Fort Larned, so he’s accepting a recent slump for what it is – one of the inevitable cycles a tenured trainer must endure.

“When things go good, they’re good,” Wilkes said. “And when they’re not, well, that’s the way it goes. We all go through it.”

Trainers Carla Gaines and Adam Kitchingman have been fined $500 for recent medication violations and jockeys Eswan Flores and Mario Gutierrez received lesser financial penalties for whip violations, according to rulings published over the weekend by Santa Anita stewards.