MIAMI – There will be a lot of long faces around trainer Eddie Plesa Jr.’s barn at Gulfstream Park West on Monday when stable star Itsmyluckyday boards a van that will take him to New York. Itsmyluckyday is scheduled to make the final start of his career next Saturday at Aqueduct in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile.

Spendthrift Farm has acquired the breeding rights to Itsmyluckyday, who will stand stud at the farm in Lexington, Ky., next season. That means Plesa and his crew will bid adieu to the Grade 1 winner for the final time on Monday.

NEW ORLEANS – On a recent morning on the Fair Grounds backstretch, trainer Keith Desormeaux was stopped a few times by colleagues congratulating him for winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Texas Red.

“This is the area that I’ve frequented the most,” said Desormeaux, 47, who is from Maurice, La., and has made Fair Grounds his winter base for many years. “To see a guy like me sneak up there and win such an important race, it’s fun. It’s what we bust our ass for.”

The outstanding sprint mare Reneesgotzip has been retired, trainer Peter Miller said Thursday.

Reneesgotzip, age 5, finished ninth in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 1 in her last start. That completed a career in which she won eight times in 16 starts and earned $869,860. The daughter of City Zip is owned by Debbie Lanni.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Six starts into his career, Red Outlaw has six wins. He’ll be putting that unbeaten record on the line before this Del Mar meet ends, but whether it comes Sunday in the $100,000 Cary Grant Stakes or next Saturday in the Grade 1, $300,000 Hollywood Derby is a question trainer Peter Miller hadn’t quite worked out the answer to as of Thursday morning.

Ocho Ocho Ocho is one of the most exciting prospects in Saturday's Delta Downs Jackpot as an undefeated stakes winner with a serious turn of foot. He dueled through blazing fractions last out when he won the $100,000 Juvenile Sprint at Santa Anita on the Breeders’ Cup undercard Nov. 1.  In his only other start, Ocho Ocho Ocho won his debut in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight at Santa Anita, stalking and pouncing in a razor-sharp 1:02.80 on Oct. 11.

Golden Actor will have a Hall of Fame rider on his team Saturday when he runs in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot. But the retired Jose Santos won’t be making his comeback on the horse. He has instead been serving as an adviser to owner Jaime Mejia, who races Golden Actor under the nom de course Thoroughbred Champion Training Center.

The fields for Zia Park’s most prestigious races were drawn Wednesday, and Southern California invaders Jojo Warrior and Tonito M., are expected to start as the respective favorites in the $300,000 Zia Park Oaks and $200,000 Zia Park Derby when the races are run Nov. 26.

Unlike last year, when the Clark Handicap was a factor in Eclipse Awards voting, the Grade 1 race does not figure to have any championship ramifications when it is run next Friday (Nov. 28) fat Churchill Downs for the 141st time.

Trainer Bob Baffert confirmed Wednesday that he intends to send Hoppertunity for the $500,000 Clark. Hoppertunity, most recently a fast-closing second in an Oct. 29 allowance at Santa Anita, will be ridden by Rafael Bejarano when stretching out to 1 1/8 miles in the Clark.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Well Measured has shown he can fire fresh – witness his victory first time out back in January at Santa Anita. But when he returns from a 7 1/2-month layoff in the third race Friday, he “might be short,” warned his trainer, Peter Miller.

“I had wanted to run him in a five-eighths race, but he didn’t get in,” Miller said Wednesday morning. “This was the second choice.”

The third race is at seven furlongs. Well Measured drew the rail.

MIAMI – Trainer Graham Motion had plenty of options to choose from when it came to the only two graded stakes at this year’s inaugural Gulfstream Park West meet, Saturday’s Grade 3 Tropical Turf and My Charmer handicaps. Motion nominated four horses to both events.

In the end, he opted to enter Edge of Reality and Rapscallion in the Tropical Turf and only Magic of Reality for the My Charmer.