Trainer Michael S. Ferraro sent out his 3,000th career winner when Sweet Sweet Afleet won the eighth race at Finger Lakes on Wednesday.

Ferraro has won 18 training titles at Finger Lakes dating back to 1975. He has won 2,869 races at Finger Lakes.

Ferraro's best best horse was Fio Rito, a winner of 28 races and the first New York-bred to win a Grade 1. Fio Rito won the 1981 Whitney for Ferraro, who was 42 at the time.

Ferraro, from Buffalo, N.Y.,  is the father of trainer M. Anthony Ferraro, who also trains at Finger Lakes.

Heritage Place, the auction house in Oklahoma City, will put on its third annual winter mixed Thoroughbred sale Dec. 13. The auction will feature breeding stock and horses of racing age and is being held in conjunction with closing weekend at Remington Park.

Entries to the sale close Saturday, said Spence Kidney, general manager of Heritage Place.

Heritage Place is an indoor facility that puts on a number of major auctions for Quarter Horses. The sale for Thoroughbreds will begin at 11 a.m. Central.

Trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Wednesday he plans to ship his stable between Dec. 7 and Dec. 10 to Oaklawn Park for the winter meet there, which opens in January. Lukas is currently racing at Churchill Downs. He has stabled at Oaklawn in recent winters.

Oaklawn received a record number stall requests for the upcoming meet, with accommodations for 2,800 horses sought at the track, which can hold about 1,500.

“We’re pleased with the number of applications, but what really stands out is the quality of them,” said Pat Pope, the longtime racing secretary at Oaklawn.

Trainer Eloy Navarro, whose recent success with Quarter Horses at Los Alamitos has been the source of controversy, has a first-time starter, I Am Going Global, entered to run in the third race at Del Mar on Friday.

I Am Going Global is entered in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden-claiming race for 2-year-old fillies. She is eligible to be claimed for $30,000. She shows a spotty pattern of published works, all recorded at Los Alamitos.

MIAMI – The $90,000 Kenny Noe Jr. Stakes, which failed to fill Saturday, will be carried over to Sunday’s card at Gulfstream Park West.

Only 16 horses were nominated to the six-furlong dash, with Black Diamond Cat, City of Weston, Close It Out, Grande Shores, Risk Factor, and Speechify among those expected to start if the race goes Sunday.

Trainer Marty Wolfson said he might have considered running defending champ Simmstown had the Kenny Noe Jr. been carded at 6 1/2 furlongs, as it was last year. Simmstown has been idle since January.

Jockey Stewart Elliott intends to resume riding at the Turfway Park holiday meet that begins Dec. 4, according to Jose Santos Jr., who will be his agent at the northern Kentucky track.

Elliott, best known for his winning rides on Smarty Jones in the 2004 Kentucky Derby and Preakness, rode sparingly at the Keeneland fall meet after returning from a rib injury sustained in mid-August at Del Mar.

MIAMI – At a time of year when most of the top handicap horses stabled on the East Coast have travel plans that will take them to Miami for the winter, Itsmyluckyday and Atreides will find themselves heading in the opposite direction over the next couple of weeks.

Less than $40,000 shy of being a millionaire, the 5-year-old turf mare Centre Court will not race at Churchill Downs on Nov. 22 in the Grade 3 Cardinal Handicap and instead has been retired, trainer Rusty Arnold said this week from Keeneland.

“I didn’t like the way she worked [Monday],” said Arnold. “She’s been too good to us not to go ahead and retire her.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill Downs has released the dates for the 2015 Kentucky Derby Future Wager and once again will offer Pool 1 during the final weekend of the current fall meet while also reverting to a Friday-to-Sunday wagering window.

These are the dates for the four futures pools toward the 141st Kentucky Derby on May 2: Pool 1, Nov. 28-30; Pool 2, Feb. 6-8; Pool 3, Feb. 27 to March 1; and Pool 4, March 27-29.

It’s not a hop, skip and a jump to get to Delta Downs in the small southwestern Louisiana town of Vinton.

“The last two hours are by stagecoach,” trainer D. Wayne Lukas said.

Lukas on Wednesday confirmed he intends to send Breeder’s Cup winner Take Charge Brandi for the Grade 3, $400,000 Delta Downs Princess on Nov. 22.

It is not a simple trek to get to Delta. Horses flying in must land in either Houston or New Orleans, then van several hours to the Louisiana-Texas border track, nestled under mile-high pine trees.