MIAMI – Even though she was considered an outsider going into the race, trainer Stanley Gold was looking forward to trying his steadily improving Cookie Dough against the best of her division in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies earlier this month at Churchill Downs. Unfortunately, he never got that chance.

MIAMI – Trainer Todd Pletcher’s decision to keep a year-round presence in South Florida this season returned big dividends twice within an eight-day period, including last Saturday at Gulfstream Park West, where his stable won two of the nine stakes on the Sunshine Millions Preview card.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Doug O’Neill has plenty of 2-year-old maiden fillies he wants to sprint on turf, and he will send out five Thursday after a five-furlong race carded for that day was split into two divisions.

In race 1, O’Neill will run Mo Me Mo My – who was second in a similar spot during the summer meet here – and the longshot Elusively.

O’Neill on Monday morning at Del Mar said Mo Me Mo My, a daughter of Uncle Mo, has not raced since her Aug. 22 debut because “she needed time to mature.”

“She should run well,” he said.

Maximus Mischief, who recorded the highest Beyer Speed Figure of the year by a 2-year-old, had his first workout since that Oct. 20 race on Monday at Parx Racing. Trainer Butch Reid is pointing Maximus Mischief to the Grade 2 Remsen on Dec. 1 at Aqueduct.

A son of Into Mischief, Maximus Mischief was purchased in May by Chuck Zacney for $340,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-year-olds in training sale in Timonium, Md. Maximus Mischief races for Zacney’s Cash Is King Stable and the D.J. Stable of Leonard Green.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Brad Cox is starting to regain momentum after hitting what might be regarded as a slump during the first half of the Churchill fall meet.

With the only winner from his first 26 starters at the 21-day meet being Monomoy Girl in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff – which, by itself, does indeed contradict any notion of “slump” – Cox won a Friday allowance with the promising 2-year-old filly Unholy Alliance, then swept the Sunday co-features when Maybe Wicked and Take These Chains won back-to-back allowances.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Happy Like a Fool, who chased a hot pace in the Nov. 3 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint before fading to sixth at 61-1, could return in the Grade 1 La Brea on Dec. 26 at Santa Anita, trainer Wesley Ward said. The seven-furlong La Brea is restricted to 3-year-old fillies.

Winner of the Grade 3 Matron last year at 2 and the Grade 3 Miss Preakness in May, Happy Like a Fool went through the Fasig-Tipton November sale the day after the Breeders’ Cup. She was auctioned for $1.45 million, with Blandford Bloodstock listed as the buyer of record.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Silent Sonet recorded her first graded stakes victory in her most recent start in the Grade 3 Ontario Fashion Stakes on Oct. 28 and will be pointed toward the Grade 2, $175,000 Bessarabian Stakes over seven furlongs on Tapeta on Nov. 25, trainer Nick Gonzalez said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Mr Havercamp recorded his second graded stakes win of the year in the Grade 2 Autumn Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on Tapeta back on Nov. 3, but the versatile Court Vision gelding is likely to make his way back on turf for his next start.

Trainer Catherine Day Phillips said there was a chance Mr Havercamp could run back in the Grade 2, $200,000 Fort Lauderdale Stakes over 1 1/8 miles on turf Dec. 15 at Gulfstream Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Life is good these days for Dallas Stewart. The 59-year-old trainer had three wins and three seconds from six combined starts here Friday and Saturday, then zipped up Interstate 71 with his wife, Yvette, on Sunday to watch his beloved New Orleans Saints romp to a 51-14 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.

“Great game,” Stewart said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Edgar Morales, on his way to an Eclipse Award nomination, also is looking to accomplish something that has been done only once in Churchill Downs history – lead the rider standings as an apprentice.