Wonder Wheel, who is exercising at trainer Mark Casse’s Casse Farm in Florida toward her 3-year-old debut, overcame a tough trip to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. A two-time Grade 1 winner during 2022, she’s sure to be named champion 2-year-old filly at the Eclipse Awards later this month. But you can bet your last dollar that Tom Amoss would not – as trainers are wont to state – trade places with anyone when it comes to 3-year-old fillies of 2023.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – It is likely Lugan Knight and Arctic Arrogance, the one-two finishers from Saturday’s $150,000 Jerome Stakes at Aqueduct, will go their separate ways for their next starts.

Lugan Knight, who beat Arctic Arrogance by a half-length in the Jerome, was scheduled on Tuesday to return to Kentucky, where he is based with Justin Curran, assistant to trainer Michael McCarthy.

McCarthy indicated after the Jerome that a potential next start for Lugan Knight is the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham Stakes, like the Jerome, a one-turn mile, on March 4 at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Jeff Mullins has been fined $1,500 and suspended 15 days as part of a stipulated agreement with the California Racing Board for a medication violation found in Inch, the winner of the sixth race at Del Mar on Aug. 25.

Inch tested positive for the bronchodilator clenbuterol, which is not allowed to appear in post-race tests. Inch won a starter allowance at five furlongs on turf by three-quarters of a length.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Thirsty John could appear in a stakes for 3-year-olds anywhere in the nation after winning his stakes debut in Saturday’s $200,000 California Cup Derby for statebreds at Santa Anita.

The win had breeder and co-owner Terry Lovingier eager to try Thirsty John in a Triple Crown prep race, pending conversations with trainer Peter Miller.

“I told Peter, ‘We’ll travel anywhere and do anything you want to do,’ ” Lovingier said Saturday afternoon.

Consecutive wins by Ice Dancing in a maiden race at a mile at Del Mar in late November and Sunday’s Grade 3 Santa Ynez Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita have left Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella expecting more from the 3-year-old filly this winter.

The next few months will determine where Ice Dancing ranks in the California and national division.

“She’s a big, strong, good-looking and I think she’ll get better as we go,” he said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Law Professor came out of his dominant 7 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s $150,000 Queens County Stakes in good order and will likely be headed back to graded stakes company for his next start, though where that will occur is yet to be determined.

Trainer Rob Atras and the ownership group Twin Creeks Racing Stable will have plenty of options including, possibly, the Grade 1, $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational on Jan. 28.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Manny Franco tied a New York Racing Association record by riding six winners on one card Friday at Aqueduct.

Franco went 6 for 7 on the nine-race card, booting home Uncorrelated ($6.10) in the opener, Quick Chaos ($12.20) in the fourth, Vallarand ($4.70) in the fifth, Baron’s Legacy ($18.80) in the sixth, Kant Hurry Love ($6.60) in the eighth, and Bourbon Calling ($13.40) in the ninth. His lone loss on the card came aboard Wild Banker, who finished sixth in race 7.

Franco had ridden five winners on a NYRA card four times.

All-sources handle at New York Racing Association tracks – Aqueduct, Belmont Park, and Saratoga – in 2022 was $2,321,863,828, down 2.2 percent compared to $2,372,772,917 handled a year ago, according to figures released Friday by the company.

There were 1,855 races conducted over 196 dates in 2022 compared to 1,887 races run over 201 days in 2021. Average daily handle in 2022 was $11,846,244, slightly higher than the $11,809,816 average in 2021.

Jockey Joree Scriver suffered lower-limb paralysis in a one-horse accident at Sunland Park in New Mexico on Jan. 1 and is undergoing treatment at a hospital in nearby El Paso, Texas, her family said Friday.

Scriver, 21, underwent two surgeries earlier this week after sustaining multiple vertebra fractures, according to her boyfriend, jockey Luis Fuentes. She also suffered a punctured lung and broken ribs. 

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Champions Dream, whom Danny Gargan trained to victory in the Grade 3 Nashua here last Nov. 6, has been moved to Mark Casse. Champions Dream is being pointed to Saturday’s $125,000 Pasco Stakes, a seven-furlong race at Tampa Bay Downs.

Despite Champions Dream having won two of three starts, owner Jeffrey Weiss, who races under the moniker Rosedown Racing Stables, moved the horse to Casse shortly after the Nashua. The horse has worked four times at Casse’s farm in Ocala, Fla.