An emotional Art Sherman saddled his final runner on Friday at Los Alamitos.

Sherman, 84, announced his retirement last month, and had his last starter in the seventh race when Chasing Alchemy finished seventh.

Sherman was honored in the winner’s circle with a brief retirement ceremony attended by track owner Ed Allred, other Los Alamitos executives, and Sherman’s friends and family.

Sherman is best known for winning the 2014 Kentucky Derby with California Chrome, who was honored as Horse of the Year that season and in 2016.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Green Light Go, beaten a head by Hopeful Treasure in the Grade 3 Fall Highweight on Nov. 28, worked a half-mile in 50.31 seconds Friday morning over the Belmont Park training track. What he is training toward has not yet been decided.

Green Light Go is not nominated to next Sunday’s $100,000 Gravesend. In addition to the race being just three weeks after the Fall Highweight, Jerkens noted that he didn’t want to run Green Light Go six furlongs again. He said he only ran the horse in the Fall Highweight because there was nothing else around.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Looking to build on past success on this circuit while also hoping to build a broader client base, Parx Racing-based trainer Tyler Servis has taken stalls in New York for the winter.

Servis was allotted seven stalls at Belmont Park, where all local runners are based during Aqueduct, since that track no longer has training. Servis currently has three horses at Belmont with Perfect Day, a first-out winner at Penn National on Wednesday, and a recently purchased unraced New York-bred 2-year-old on their way.

CYPRESS, Calif. – For most jockeys, the final race of an afternoon program at Los Alamitos marks the end of the day.

For 17-year-old apprentice Diego Herrera, the last race of the afternoon represents halftime.

In recent months, particularly at the two-week Los Alamitos December Thoroughbred meeting that ends Sunday, Herrera has ridden races during afternoon and evening programs.

Beyond Brilliant, winner of the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 27 at Del Mar, worked a half-mile in 49.20 seconds on Friday at Santa Anita for a potential start in the Grade 2 Mathis Brothers Mile on turf on Dec. 26.

Beyond Brilliant is trained by John Shirreffs, who said the colt’s progress in the next 10 days will determine whether the Mathis Brothers Mile is an appropriate race.

The $200,000 Mathis Brothers Mile for 3-year-olds is one of six graded stakes on the Dec. 26 opening-day program at Santa Anita.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – A pair of allowance events, one each on dirt and turf, highlight Sunday’s 10-race card that kicks off with a 12:30 p.m. first post.

The ninth race drew a full field of 12 plus two also-eligibles to go a mile on the grass for a $61,000 purse and should prove a head-scratcher for handicappers as the penultimate leg of the popular Rainbow 6 sequence.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It might have been a surprise to many that Strike Hard went postward the favorite, at 7-5, over the Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained pair of A. P.’s Secret and Skippylongstocking in last Sunday’s allowance feature. But the public got it right, with Strike Hard rallying to a convincing four-length victory over A. P.’s Secret, a result which didn’t surprise the promising 2-year-old’s trainer, Matthew Williams, in the least.

Two Emmys, who finished second last season in the richest turf race at Fair Grounds, the Muniz Memorial, and who upset Domestic Spending in the Grade 1 Mister D. Stakes this past August, is a possible runner Dec. 26 at Fair Grounds in the Buddy Diliberto Memorial Stakes.

Pappacap found favored Corniche too much to handle in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, though he finished a strong second at Del Mar capping a successful 2-year-old season.

Pappacap went from California to Casse Farm in Florida following his Breeders’ Cup runner-up performance, and trainer Mark Casse said Thursday that plans call for Pappacap to begin his 3-year-old campaign in New Orleans in the $200,000 Lecomte Stakes on Jan. 22.

STICKNEY, Ill. -- Fort Prado, a 20-year-old Illinois-bred millionaire, had to be put down earlier this week due to complications from laminitis, a painful condition that afflicts the hooves and can be irreparable in advanced stages.