Grade 1-placed Bickersons wheels back 16 days after finishing 10th in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies and shortens to seven furlongs for Sunday's $100,000 Moccasin Stakes at Hollywood Park.

Acoma probably earned herself another year of racetrack life when she bounced back from two last-place finishes to post a hard-fought victory Saturday in the 36th running of the Grade 3, $111,700 Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Haynesfield, who four weeks earlier scored his richest victory in the $250,000 Empire Classic against older New York-bred rivals, captured his first graded stakes victory in Saturday's Grade 3, $103,500 Discovery Handicap for 3-year-olds.

Rajiv Maragh has been named by trainer Helen Pitts to ride Einstein in the Grade 2 Clark Handicap on Friday at Churchill Downs. Maragh, a rising star based in New York, replaces Julien Leparoux, who has ridden Einstein in each of the horse's last eight races.

Trainer Pat Kelly will use Sunday's $65,000 Study Hard Stakes for New York-breds as a fall-back plan for Naughty New Yorker, whom he had originally pointed to the Grade 3 Stuyvesant Handicap.

Juddmonte Farm's homebred colt Lease of Life brought a session-topping $110,000 bid Saturday at the Keeneland November breeding stock sale's penultimate session.

The Oklahoma-bred program has a serious 2-year-old filly this year in Vertical Vision. A two-time stakes winner who finished a troubled sixth last out in the Grade 3 Pocahontas, she will be racing against statebreds for the first time Sunday in the $60,000 Oklahoma Classics Lassie at Remington Park.