Kentucky Derby-winning jockey Stewart Elliott reached a milestone of 5,000 career victories late Sunday night, when he won Lone Star Park's eighth race aboard Power End.

Elliott captured the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness aboard Smarty Jones.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Hit the Road, winner of the $103,500 Runhappy Oceanside Stakes on July 10 at Del Mar, has been turned out for three months after being diagnosed with a minor injury.

Trainer Dan Blacker said in late July that Hit the Road was sidelined with a bruised foot, but additional evaluation indicated the colt will need a longer rest, he said Sunday.

The setback comes at a time when Blacker was hoping to start Hit the Road in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 6.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Total handle figures for the current 27-day summer season at Del Mar are projected to exceed the corresponding 36-day summer season in 2019 and result in a surplus in the purse account, track president Josh Rubinstein said Sunday.

The track ran the 13th day of the season on Sunday. The meeting concludes Sept. 7 and has been held amidst significant changes this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Following his Saturday romp in the Runhappy Travers, Tiz the Law is by far the heaviest individually listed favorite in the 21-year history of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager.

Tiz the Law was the 11-10 favorite when the seventh and final pool toward the 2020 Derby closed Sunday following the customary three days of betting. Those odds easily break a record set when Empire Maker was 5-2 in the final pool of 2003. The mutuel field, the 24th or “all others” option, has closed as low as 3-5 in prior years, but this is the lowest price ever on a separately listed interest.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Weston won his stakes debut in Saturday’s Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes for 2-year-olds at Del Mar, giving trainer Ryan Hanson his first Thoroughbred graded stakes win in a leading prep race for the Grade 1 Runhappy Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 7.

Two hours later, Hanson saw a runner likely to be rated among the leading contenders for the $250,000 Del Mar Futurity at seven furlongs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Pure Sensation, an 11-time stakes winner who finished last in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Troy Stakes at Saratoga, has been retired from racing, trainer Christophe Clement said Sunday.

Clement said Pure Sensation came back from the Troy sound, but after that performance coupled with his seventh-place finish in the Grade 1 Jaipur at Belmont on June 20 “there was no point to go on” with the 9-year-old Florida-bred gelding by Zensational, owned and bred by Frank and Patricia Generazio.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Joe Orseno said he thought about appealing the disqualification of Imprimis from first in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Troy Stakes, but his owners, Mike Hall and Sam Ross, who race under the moniker Breeze Easy Stable, opted against.

“I suggested it, and they didn’t want to do it,” Orseno said Sunday. “They know their horse was good enough and won. We’ll get him ready for the next one.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After a pair of dominant victories in Grade 1 stakes run around one turn, Gamine will now be pointed to the Grade 1, $1.25 million Kentucky Oaks, run at 1 1/8 miles around two turns Sept. 4 at Churchill Downs.

Gamine was most impressive winning Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Test, at seven furlongs, by seven lengths at Saratoga. That victory came seven weeks after she won the Grade 1 Acorn, a one-turn mile at Belmont Park, by 18 3/4 lengths. Gamine earned a 108 Beyer Speed Figure for the Test, which followed the 110 she earned in the Acorn.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With her impeccable breeding – she’s a half-sister to champion Sistercharlie – and promising racing record during her 3-year-old campaign in France, expectations were high when My Sister Nat joined trainer Chad Brown’s barn for the 2019 season.

Things didn’t quite pan out as hoped when My Sister Nat finally returned to the races last summer. But her career is definitely headed in the right direction now following Saturday’s game victory over 7-5 favorite Mrs. Sippy in the 1 1/2-mile, Grade 3 Waya.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Tom Amoss said it’s taken him a year and a half to finally figure out what Serengeti Empress really wants to do. It’s a revelation that became crystal clear in the aftermath of his multiple Grade 1-winning filly’s incredibly game, one-length victory over favored Bellafina in Saturday’s seven-furlong Ballerina.