ARCADIA, Calif. – Fog enveloped much of Santa Anita for a good part of Sunday morning's training, but more than enough of the track could be seen around 6:30, when it was clear Maximum Security is training strongly for his upcoming start in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland.

Maximum Security is most often, at best, an indifferent work horse, but he was a willing and eager worker Sunday, putting away his company with ease while completing a five-furlong drill in 59.80 seconds, after which he galloped-out an additional furlong.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Craig Lewis won the 1,000th race of his career with Warren’s Showtime in Saturday’s Grade 3 Autumn Miss Stakes at Santa Anita, a milestone decades in the making but reflective of more recent success.

The milestone win gave Lewis his first graded stakes victory in five years with the current stable leader whose sire and dam also had star turns in Lewis’s stable. 

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - King Guillermo, scratched from the Kentucky Derby just two days before the race, was back on the work tab for the first time since resuming training and breezed an easy half-mile in 51.78 Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

His next goal is the Grade 3 Discovery at Aqueduct on Nov. 28.

Turf Paradise in Phoenix will run after all in 2021.

Two months after the track’s owner told state regulators he had no plans to run next year, Turf Paradise and its horsemen on Friday announced a deal to run 84 live racing days during a meet starting Jan. 2 and running through May 1.

John Curran, Delaware Park’s track announcer for the past 37 years, will retire after the Breeders’ Cup this year and will call his final race at the track on Saturday, Delaware’s closing day.

Curran, who has also worked at Delaware as a racing official, stakes coordinator, simulcast coordinator, and publicity coordinator, was given the full-time announcing job at Delaware in 1984. Since then, he has called nearly every race at the track.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Art Collector had his first work since the Oct. 3 Preakness when going a half-mile in 49.20 seconds Thursday over a fast track at the Skylight training center, the home base of trainer Tommy Drury. Brian Hernandez Jr., the regular rider for Art Collector, was aboard.

“They say the track’s been pretty heavy, but he still got his last eighth in 11 and 2,” said Hernandez. “He’s as good as ever, from what I can tell.”

LEXINGTON, Ky. – What’s in a name? Neil Pessin knows, at least as it pertains to himself.

“This filly deserves more respect than what she gets,” Pessin said of his stable star Bell’s the One, “and if she was trained by somebody else, she’d probably get it.”

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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Thursday denied a petition by the connections of Justify seeking to block an upcoming stewards’ hearing over whether the horse should be disqualified from the 2018 Santa Anita Derby, according to officials involved in the case.

The New York Racing Association will offer 42 stakes worth $4.57 million during a 56-day Aqueduct 2020-21 winter meet that runs Dec. 10 through March 28, and 13 stakes worth $2.7 million during an 11-day spring meet that runs from April 1 through April 18, the company announced Thursday.

Further, the purse increases that NYRA announced starting Sunday for the remainder of the Belmont Park fall meet will continue through Aqueduct’s winter and spring sessions.

Juan Gutierrez became the all-time leading rider at Emerald Downs Wednesday.

He went into Wednesday’s nine-race card with 1,418 wins at Emerald, one behind Gallyn Mitchell. He tied Mitchell when he won the second race aboard Mike Operator and made history with his win aboard Stay in Grace in the eighth race.

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Gutierrez, who has 2,031 wins in his career, was all smiles in the winner’s circle following his record-setting win.