DEL MAR, Calif. – Opening day at Del Mar is a spectacle, with tens of thousands here for the party more than the racing. Day 2 is when the regulars regain control of proceedings.

It’s always a sleepy day compared with the over-the-top atmosphere of opening day, and the card is often a letdown, but the horseplayers who come out Thursday are in for an unexpected treat, with 2012 Del Mar Debutante winner Executiveprivilege making her first start of the year against two other high-quality returnees, Reneesgotzip and Gypsy Robin.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Short on stature, but long on talent, Bahnah looks to validate her eye-catching six-length maiden win last month at Churchill Downs when she runs in Friday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes on the opening day card at Saratoga.

The Schuylerville, which drew a field of seven 2-year-old fillies, shares billing with the Grade 3, $100,000 James Marvin Stakes, the local prep for the Grade 1 Forego later in the meet. The 10-race card also includes the $100,000 On the Bus Stakes for New York-bred turf fillies and mares.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It was way back in July 2006 when a horse named Rahystrada made a winning career debut in an Ellis Park turf sprint race. His trainer at the time, Frankie Brothers, retired in 2009. His sire, Rahy, died in 2011. But Rahystrada, now a 9-year-old gelding, still is going strong. Not only did he come out of his win Saturday in the Arlington Handicap in decent shape, he came out of it looking for more action.

“He was raising a little hell this morning,” trainer Byron Hughes said Tuesday. “We’re going to have to put him back to work tomorrow.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A disappointing Triple Crown campaign behind him, Vyjack will look to restore his once-lofty reputation when he runs in the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 27.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – There is not much in the area surrounding the California high desert town of Victorville, where apprentice jockey Irving Orozco grew up. That barren atmosphere benefited a young Orozco about five years ago.

All of 14 years old at the time, Orozco, with the aid of a little brother, put saddles on the family’s racing Quarter Horses and galloped them on a gravel and dirt road adjacent to the family ranch.

“I’d go about a half-mile down the road and come back,” he recalled. “There were no cars.”

EAST BOSTON, Mass. – Andria Terrill was being released from Massachusetts Hospital on Tuesday afternoon and was headed to her seasonal home near Suffolk Downs to continue her recovery from three skull fractures suffered in a spill at the track July 8.

“Just waiting to get out and for the patient print outs,” texted the jockey.

“She’s in good spirits and is looking forward to going home and then getting back to work,” said her agent, Eddie Smith.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Philip Oliver is based at Keeneland, so he gets a daily dose of watching Wise Dan train, let alone having to run against him. In an effort to get as far away from Wise Dan as possible, and take advantage of a race that is coming up light in terms of entries and talent, Oliver is sending Middie to Del Mar for the Grade 1, $300,000 Eddie Read Stakes on Saturday.

Laurel Park has repositioned its Fall Turf Festival from late October to opening weekend and clustered all its stakes on six Saturdays from mid-September through late December.

The Maryland Jockey Club released a schedule of 29 stakes worth a collective $3.25 million for the fall meet on Tuesday after reaching agreement with both the Maryland Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and Maryland Horse Breeders Association. The schedule was approved by the Maryland Racing Commission.

The Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot on Nov. 23 and the $200,000 Louisiana Premier Night Championship on Feb. 1 will again anchor the richest cards offered during the Delta Downs meet that opens Oct. 11. The Vinton, La., track, which announced its 28-race, $4.37 million stakes schedule on Tuesday, will race 88 dates through March 15, 2014.

Purses are projected to average $245,000 a day this meet, said Chris Warren, director of racing operations for Delta.

Monmouth County police have arrested a mutuel teller at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., after receiving multiple complaints that he groped women and stuffed betting vouchers down their shirts, according to the county prosecutor’s office.

Jeffrey L. Bork, 65, a resident of nearby Eatontown, has been charged with criminal sexual misconduct following his arrest on Saturday. According to a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, Charles Webster, officers received an initial complaint about Bork on Saturday and are following up on two similar complaints.