ELMONT, N.Y. - Bolshoi Ballet and Santa Barbara, the two Coolmore-owned horses that won Saturday’s Belmont Derby and Oaks, respectively, emerged from their efforts “like they never had races,” according to assistant trainer T.J. Comerford. While they shipped back to trainer Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle yard in Ireland on Sunday night, it is likely they will return to the U.S. at some point, with the year-end goals being the Breeders’ Cup. Bolshoi Ballet bounced back from his seventh-place finish as the favorite in the Group 1 Epsom Derby with a 1 1/4-length victory in the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Derby. He won on the day that his sire, the 23-year-old Galileo, was euthanized due to a debilitating foot injury. Bolshoi Ballet ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:04.42, which was slower than his stablemate Santa Barbara (2:03.76) covered the same distance in the Oaks. Bolshoi Ballet was assigned an 86 Beyer Speed Figure while Santa Barbara got a 90. Both won over turf courses that were labeled good and softer than they would have preferred according to Comerford, who also believes Bolshoi Ballet wants more distance. :: Access morning workout reports straight from the tracks and get an edge with DRF Clocker Reports “He’s just getting going at a mile and a quarter,” Comerford said Sunday morning. “He’s equally effective over it, but you’d like to think another two furlongs he’d be better again. At the same time, he did it well on ground he didn’t like.” Santa Barbara displayed a strong turn of foot after jockey Ryan Moore guided her through a sizeable hole in midstretch. She was able to run down Con Lima to win a by a half-length in a performance Moore felt was easier than it looked. “Ryan said he never rode an easier winner than the filly,” Comerford said. “He said she was very, very easy. It’s her fifth run, she seems to be improving.” The Belmont Derby and Oaks were the first legs of a Turf Triple series for 3-year-olds at New York Racing Association tracks that continues at Saratoga with the Grade 1, $1 million Saratoga Derby Invitational on Aug. 7 and the Grade 3, $700,000 Saratoga Oaks on Aug. 8. Both races are run at 1 3/16 miles. Comerford said he isn’t sure if either Bolshoi Ballet or Santa Barbara would come back for those races.  But he did indicate that Bolshoi Ballet and Santa Barbara would be strongly considered for the Breeders’ Cup Turf and Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 6. “Aidan doesn’t know what he’s going to do with them yet,” Comerford said. “He might decide that they have the experience of coming here now, but maybe now you can find other races in other places and bring them back here for the Breeders’ Cup. Maybe they will come back for Saratoga, who knows? At least they have the experience to come back for the big day.” M.V. Magnier, the son of Coolmore principal John Magnier, said Saturday those horses returning to New York for the Saratoga Derby/Oaks and/or the Jockey Club Derby/Oaks which are run on Sept. 18 will be considered. :: Get DRF Betting Strategies for exclusive analysis and wager recommendations from our expert handicappers. “The prize money’s fantastic, they look after us so well we only want to run good horses here,” Magnier said. “Definitely, it’s open that they will come back here.” Tokyo Gold, runner-up in the Belmont Derby, was scheduled to return to France, according to trainer Satoshi Kobayashi, but he will come back for the $1 million Jockey Club Derby, Kobayashi said. Kobayashi said his horse “ran very, very well,” but was farther back under John Velazquez than he would have hoped. Kobayashi would have preferred an inside post, rather than post 7. “I can’t say for sure, but maybe he could have won,” Kobayashi said. Todd Pletcher, the trainer of Oaks runner-up Con Lima, said his filly would be pointed to the Saratoga Oaks.