Idle since winning the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 7, Dr. Schivel overcame significant adversity from his rail post position to win Friday's $65,000 allowance feature by a neck at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.

Friday's Stronach 5, featuring races from Pimlico, Gulfstream, and Santa Anita, had 39 winning tickets with each worth $1,767. Friday's sequence started with a bit of a longshot in Posterity ($17.60) winning Pimlico's seventh race.

This week's Senate introduction of the H-2B Returning Worker Exemption Act of 2021 could help solve the labor shortage constantly facing racing's backstretch, according to a report in the Thoroughbred Daily News. The bill is written to allow H-2B workers from any of the previous 3 years to qualify . . .