HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Tyler Gaffalione rode the 1,000th winner of his career Sunday, winning the seventh race aboard first-time starter Mission from Elle. The victory was the second on the day for Gaffalione, 24, who rode his first career winner, Holdin Bullets, at Gulfstream Park on Sept. 7, 2014.

Gaffalione, the 2015 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice, won the 2018 summer meet riding title here as well as the fall jockey championships at both Keeneland and Churchill Downs.

Mission from Elle was Gaffalione’s 253rd winner in 2018.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Jockey Edgard Zayas will be sidelined a minimum of two months after suffering a broken right femur when his horse, Killer Kitten, fell during Sunday’s fifth race.

Zayas underwent successful surgery Monday morning to repair his injured leg, according to his agent, Tito Fuentes.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – For those anxiously awaiting the 3-year-old debut of Code of Honor, the wait will be a short one – just five days into the new year in Saturday’s one-mile Mucho Macho Man Stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Accelerate has launched the final month of his career in excellent form.

The nation’s leading older male of 2018, Accelerate worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 at Santa Anita on Saturday in preparation for the $9 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 26. It will be his last race before he is sent to stud in Kentucky in February.

Trainer John Sadler described Accelerate’s condition Sunday as “bright and great.”

The New York Racing Association will again offer two bonus programs for horses who ship in from Florida and Arkansas and race at Aqueduct or Belmont in spring 2019.

The owner of a horse who starts at Aqueduct from March 8 through March 31 that made its previous start at Gulfstream Park or Tampa Bay Downs will receive a $2,000 credit to cover shipping expenses. That credit becomes $1,500 if a horse that made its previous start at Tampa or Gulfstream runs at Aqueduct between April 5 through 20. Stakes races are excluded from the shipping credit.

Espresso Shot, winner of Saturday’s $100,000 East View Stakes for New York-bred juvenile fillies, earned herself a little R & R stint in South Florida but will most likely return to New York for the $250,000 Busher Invitational at Aqueduct on March 9.

The Busher, like the East View, is a one-turn-mile race. The Busher does offer qualifying points to the Kentucky Oaks to be run May 3 at Churchill Downs.

If it’s not broke, don’t break it.

That’s the ideology trainer John Kimmel plans to utilize with Mr. Buff, who will likely make his next start in the $100,000 Jazil Stakes at Aqueduct on Jan. 26. The Jazil is a two-turn, 1 1/8-mile race run over Aqueduct’s main track. Mr. Buff has won three consecutive two-turn, 1 1/8-mile races run over Aqueduct’s main track, including Saturday’s $100,000 Alex M. Robb Stakes. Overall, he is 4 for 4 in 1 1/8-mile races run around two turns.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - For the second consecutive year the New York Racing Association will offer a bonus that could boost the purse of the Grade 2 Wood Memorial to $1 million from $750,000.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Competitionofideas rumbled past seven rivals to win her Grade 1 debut in Saturday’s $301,035 American Oaks at Santa Anita.

The victory concluded an outstanding December for Eastern-based trainer Chad Brown – in California.

Brown had three Grade 1 wins in California in December, including Raging Bull in the Hollywood Derby and Uni in the Matriarch Stakes on the first weekend of the month at Del Mar.

“We’ve been fortunate to have success out West,” he said in a Sunday phone conversation on Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Paradise Woods, the winner of two Grade 1 races in 2017, was recently transferred from trainer Richard Mandella to John Shirreffs.

Owned by Steve Sarkowsky and Marty and Pam Wygod, Paradise Woods has not raced since a sixth-place finish in the restricted Osunitas Stakes on turf at Del Mar last August.

Paradise Woods, who will become a 5-year-old in 2019, has won 3 of 11 starts and earned $773,890.

“The owners decided to try something different,” Mandella said Sunday of the barn change.