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ELMONT, N.Y. – It would have come as no surprise had the connections of Flat Out announced his retirement at the end of last year.

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The “A” team will be out in force Thursday when Jena Antonucci saddles three runners in a pair of six-furlong allowance races that highlight a 10-race program at Belmont Park.

“We’re ready to roll,” said Antonucci, who sent out three winners at Saratoga and has kept up the momentum with two more at Belmont’s fall meet.

Shug McGaughey seldom ships horses to Delaware Park, and all he has to show for seven starts there since 2010 is a third-place finish in a maiden race earlier this month. The three horses McGaughey has run on Delaware’s turf course have finished sixth, seventh, and ninth.

Nevertheless, there is one potent trainer angle McGaughey has working in his favor that helps to explain why Admiral Perry is the 3-1 morning-line favorite for Thursday’s $50,000 With Anticipation Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile turf race which drew a field of 11 older horses.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Lady of Fifty and Richard’s Kid, graded stakes winners at Del Mar during the summer, have been retired, their respective trainers said Tuesday.

Lady of Fifty, winner of the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar last month, will be sold as a broodmare prospect at Keeneland in November, according to co-owner and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

Richard’s Kid, who won the Grade 3 Cougar II at Del Mar in July, has been retired after the presence of heat was found in a tendon, trainer Doug O’Neill said.

LEXINGTON – Bucky Sallee, the bugler at Keeneland for the past 51 years and a beloved fixture at the track, has retired and will be named the racing industry’s first bugler emeritus.

Sallee will be replaced by Steve Buttleman, who is entering his 18th year of bugling at Churchill Downs this fall. Buttleman also has bugled at Belmont Park and Oaklawn Park, Keeneland said.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The champion and three-time Grade 1 winner My Miss Aurelia took another step toward a return to racing with a sharp five-furlong, in-company work Monday over the Belmont Park training track.

Working with the unstarted 2-year-old filly Flatbow, My Miss Aurelia went in 1:00.78, with her final three furlongs in 35.90 seconds. She galloped out six furlongs in 1:14.33. It was her first five-eighths breeze since being sent to Pletcher last month at Saratoga.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – Two-year-olds will be showcased in the Grade 1 Champagne on Oct. 5, and on Monday, two of the top contenders for that race put in workouts.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – It seems like a race did The Lumber Guy a world of good.

Last year’s Vosburgh winner worked a very fast half-mile in 46.14 seconds Monday in preparation for Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Vosburgh Invitational. Mike Luzzi was aboard for the move and will be aboard Saturday, replacing John Velazquez, who is committed to ride Justin Phillip. Luzzi rode The Lumber Guy to victory in last year’s Grade 2 Jerome.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – Orb will try to become the first Kentucky Derby winner to win the Jockey Club Gold Cup in the same year since Ponder did it in 1949 when he runs in Saturday’s 95th renewal of the $1 million race. Funny Cide and Affirmed are both Derby winners who won the Jockey Club Gold Cup as 4-year-olds.