OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Crazy Mason, runner-up to Patriot Spirit in last Saturday’s Grade 3 Vosburgh Stakes, will be pointed to the Grade 2 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct on Dec. 6, trainer Gregg Sacco said.

Crazy Mason, perhaps compromised by a modest pace in the Vosburgh, came rallying to finish 1 1/2 lengths behind Patriot Spirit and a half-length in front of race favorite Scotland. There was a timing malfunction, so the half-mile fraction wasn’t originally posted but the Equibase chart now lists the half-mile time at 45.21 seconds after using video technology to re-time the race.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Danny Gargan has a contender in the Grade 1, $400,000 Frizette for 2-year-old fillies in Iron Orchard, a New York-bred who has won both of her starts impressively. She beat statebreds by 5 1/2 lengths going 5 1/2 furlongs on debut and then came back to win the six-furlong Seeking the Ante Stakes by 6 3/4 lengths a month later.

“She’s fast. She’s really fast. Obviously, a mile is going to be a question,” Gargan said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Danny Gargan sent out a couple of good-looking 2-year-old colts to debut victories at Saratoga this summer and, at one time, both were being considered for starts in graded stakes this fall.

But Golden Tornado, whose race has since produced three next-out winners, has been sidelined with bucked shins, so Talkin will carry the banner for Gargan and Reeves Thoroughbred Racing in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne Stakes at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Chaos seemed to be part of Reef Runner’s brief career in California, which consisted of the final Saturday of August at Del Mar and on Saturday at Santa Anita.

Reef Runner, typically based at Gulfstream Park with trainer David Fawkes, was disqualified from first and placed second in the Grade 3 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar on Aug. 30. With the demotion, Reef Runner lost a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 1.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 22nd, 23rd, and 24th graded stakes wins of 2025 for trainer Bob Baffert occurred at Santa Anita over the weekend with some results that were hard to forecast.

While Cavalieri overcame a troubled start to win Sunday’s Grade 2 Zenyatta Stakes for fillies and mares as the 7-10 favorite and secure a berth in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar on Nov. 1, wins by Nevada Beach at 8-1 in Saturday’s Grade 1 Goodwood Stakes, and Imagination at 5-1 in Sunday’s Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship were surprises.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Flavien Prat, the reigning Eclipse Award-winning jockey, will be based at Aqueduct this winter, though he will likely do a lot of traveling for weekend stakes.

Prat has typically been based at Santa Anita during the winter, but with his children now attending school, Prat preferred to stay with his family in New York, where he is based for most of the year.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Ways and Means, who has not raced since a dominant victory in the Grade 2 Bed o’ Roses at Saratoga in June, has gotten sick for the second time in the last few months and will not race again this year, trainer Chad Brown said.

An illness kept her out of the Grade 1 Ballerina in August and, after breezing once in late August, she got sick again, Brown said.

“We’re going to rest her and race her next year,” said Brown, who trains Ways and Means for owner Seth Klarman.