ARCADIA, Calif. – Beholder looked super working six furlongs Friday morning at Santa Anita under jockey Gary Stevens, her final workout before the Grade 1 Zenyatta Stakes on Sept. 26.

It was 6:45 a.m. when Beholder broke off at the five-eighths pole, five lengths behind an unidentified workmate. She cruised past in the lane, “won” the work by more than three lengths, and worked to the seven-eighths pole. Trainer Richard Mandella timed her six furlongs in 1:12.60; track clockers gave her 1:12.80.

Jockey Flavien Prat sustained five fractured vertebrae and a punctured lung in a spill Thursday at Los Alamitos, according to his agent, Derek Lawson.

Lawson said Prat has movement in his extremities and was resting comfortably under sedation in the intensive care unit at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center on Friday morning.

Prat had a chest tube inserted and underwent a CAT scan on Thursday, and doctors have scheduled an MRI for him on Friday. Lawson said that Prat fractured the T-4 through T-8 vertebrae.

The brothers George Ackel III and Adam Ackel will win their second straight owner title at Louisiana Downs when the meet ends on Saturday. They are competing this year as Extreme Racing Stables in partnership with Gabe Corchiani. Jonas Gibson trains for the group and said that following the meet the stable will head to Fair Grounds. Gibson was second to Karl Broberg in the trainer standings going into the race week on Wednesday.

Richard Eramia has locked up the Louisiana Downs riding title over Don Simington.

Lone Star Park opens its Quarter Horse meet on Friday night, and the track will host the Challenge Championships on Nov. 6-7. The series of major stakes brings together some of the sport’s top Quarter Horses.

“It’s a huge boost for our meet,” said Bart Lang, director of racing for Lone Star. “We’ve probably seen a 10 percent increase in stall applications this year, and we’re expecting great things for the whole entire meet. We’re going to have more horses here because of it. We’re expecting a good meet.”

Richard Anyel is the new announcer for Retama Park, according to Kevin Whalen, the track’s general manager. Anyel replaces Tom Harris, who is the new announcer for Zia Park.

“Richard Anyel has worked with us here at Retama Park for more than 10 years,” Whalen said in an e-mail. “Rich has run our fan-education area and served as our in-house handicapper during that time. He had an excellent live audition while Tom Harris was still here, and we were glad to offer him the position moving forward.”

He’s Comin in Hot made a triumphant return to his home state Saturday night for a division of the $75,000 Texas Stallion Stakes at Retama Park. Now, he’s a candidate for some of the 2-year-old stakes at Remington Park, said trainer Bret Calhoun.

He’s Comin in Hot, who earlier this year won the Grade 3 Bashford Manor at Churchill Downs, set quick fractions in the Texas Stallion Stakes before going on to win by 1 1/4 lengths and cover six furlongs in 1:10.45. He earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 86.

Joes Blazing Aaron is a candidate for the $75,000 Mr. Steele on Sept. 27 at Gulfstream Park, said trainer Peter Walder. Joes Blazing Aaron won at the race’s one-mile turf distance in 1:33.67 on June 18 when taking an optional $62,500 claimer over the local course. Earlier in his career, Joes Blazing Aaron won the Grade 3 Palm Beach on turf at Gulfstream.

Walder said Maid On a Mission is being pointed for the $75,000 Panama City on Sept. 26 at Gulfstream, while stakes winner Come to Mischief could run next in the Grade 3, $150,000 Jessamine on Oct. 7 at Keeneland.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The rising jockey Florent Geroux has put together an excellent summer, and only a portion of it has come at his home base, Arlington. Geroux is the fifth-leading rider at the ongoing meet, his 44 wins through the Sept. 13 card 30 fewer than leading jockey Jose Valdivia Jr. But Geroux, thanks to this Arlington Million win on The Pizza Man, tops the jockey earnings list at the meet with $1.4 million, and he’s spent as many weekends during the long Arlington season riding out of town as he has at home.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The 2-year-old colt Cocked and Loaded won his career debut in April at Keeneland and his second start in the Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park in June, and after a sixth in the Sanford Stakes in July at Saratoga and a sixth as the 6-5 favorite in the Arlington-Washington Futurity in August, it was starting to look like Cocked and Loaded’s greatest asset had been his precocity.

Highly conspicuous by his presence on the list of 32 nominees to the Sept. 26 Lukas Classic at Churchill Downs is Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, although trainer Bob Baffert has given no indication that the superstar colt will actually start. According to the race conditions, the 1 1/8-mile Lukas Classic (known for its first two runnings as the Homecoming Classic) will be worth $175,000 without American Pharoah and $1 million with him.

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