Garrett Gomez will have to wait on the record for most stakes race wins in a year after failing to win the War Chant Stakes at Hollywood Park on Wednesday.

Gomez was on the Swiss-bred Karazi, finishing sixth in the nine-horse field.

“We wanted to see if we could get him nice and relaxed,” Gomez told the Associated Press. “Maybe he just doesn’t have that kind of turn of foot. We’ll just go back to the drawing board and see what to do with
him.”

Karazi’s stablemate, Warning Zone, ridden by Jose Valdivia Jr., won the race while Bad Bay took second, and paid over $28 to show.

Any Given Saturday put out to stud

Well, not really much more to report than that. The stud fee, according to the AP, was $40,000. Fellow Breeders’ Cup contender Street Sense went for $75,000 last week.

Any Given Saturday finished sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and won the Grade II Dwyer Stakes and Grade II Brooklyn Handicap. He finished second to Street Sense in the Tampa Bay Derby in the spring.

Mario Pino reaches 6,000 wins

Mario Pino became the 15th jockey to reach 6,000 wins Wednesday, riding Pass Pay at Laurel Park to a win.

From the AP: Pino, who rode Hard Spun to a second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, reached 5,999 earlier Wednesday aboard Golden Shades before winning atop Pass Play.

“It was more pressure than riding Hard Spun,” Pino said. “I told my wife I felt pressure with these last two winners. I felt butterflies in the Derby, but nothing like this. The pressure was mounting. Once I hit that wire all that emotion just busted out in me.”

Eleven of the 14 members ahead of Pino in the all-time standings are in Racing’s Hall of Fame.