Mike Maker was represented by the 2,000th winner of his training career when Tomahawk Kitten rallied to win the first race Thursday night at Turfway Park in northern Kentucky.

Ridden by Alex Canchari, Tomahawk Kitten circled rivals on the far turn before proceeding to an easy score in the $7,500 maiden-claiming race going a mile on Polytrack. Fittingly, the winner is a 2-year-old colt bred and owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey, with whom Maker has enjoyed considerable success through the years. He paid $5 as favorite in a field of eight.

Hunt and Pee Wee Reese finished first and third for trainer Phil D’Amato in the Grade 2 Seabiscuit Handicap at Del Mar last Sunday. It could be months before they meet again.

D’Amato said Hunt will be given a month’s rest before resuming training, while Pee Wee Reese will be active in the early months of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, which begins Dec. 26.

CYPRESS, Calif. – The 5-year-old Shenandoah Queen will be part of a rebuilding winter for trainer John Sadler and his principal clients, Kosta and Pete Hronis.

In early November, their Stellar Wind, the champion 3-year-old filly of 2015, had her final start in the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar, finishing eighth. She was sold days later at Keeneland’s November sale for $6 million.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It begins in the fall and ends in the spring, but the tradition-rich Gulfstream Park Championship meeting is still considered the winter meet by longtime horseplayers, who eagerly anticipate another star-studded season of racing in south Florida, beginning Saturday and continuing through April 1.

Total handle for the 21-day Churchill Downs fall meet that concluded on Sunday was down 1 percent compared with handle during the 21-day meet last year, according to amended figures released on Wednesday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

Total handle was $96.6 million this year, compared with $97.6 million last year, according to the figures, which were amended on Wednesday after questions were raised about an initial release from the KHRC on Monday.

Trainer Peter Miller, who won two Breeders’ Cup races earlier this month at Del Mar, said Wednesday he plans to have a division of horses at the Oaklawn Park meet that opens in January. It will mark the first time he has raced in Arkansas.

Miller won the Breeders' Cup Sprint with Roy H and the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint with Stormy Liberal. His main base of operation will continue to be Southern California. 

Expect Ebben to make his next start Jan. 13 in the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds following his eye-catching win Nov. 25 at Churchill in a first-level allowance race.

Following less-than-ideal journeys in the Iroquois and the Street Sense at Churchill, Ebben broke through with a 4 1/2-length score in a one-turn mile, getting a career-best 75 Beyer Figure.

“I was glad he got the chance to run the other day after a couple tougher trips,” said trainer Steve Margolis.

Bucchero wants to run no more than six furlongs on turf, while Bullards Alley needs at least 1 1/2 miles on grass for his best.

Trainer Tim Glyshaw should have little trouble keeping his stable stars apart next year.

Time will tell if Brad Cox can repeat as leading trainer at the Fair Grounds meet, but there’s little doubt Cox will be heard from in a wide swath of stakes races this season.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The $200,000 Claiming Crown Jewel is the main event Saturday on opening day of the 2017-18 Gulfstream Park Championship meet. And in the true spirit of the Claiming Crown, the 1 1/8-mile Jewel drew a large and competitive field of 13 horses coming off races run at eight different racetracks throughout the U.S. and Canada.