SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Less than 12 hours after his Mo Strike announced his presence with authority in the 2-year-old division with a convincing 3 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 3 Sanford, trainer Brad Cox was back to work early Sunday morning at Saratoga. Standing in the steward’s stand just atop the winner’s circle shortly after the track opened for training at 5:30 a.m., Cox watched Matareya turn in her second local work in preparation for her next start, the Grade 1 Test, here on Aug. 6. Matareya, the easiest sort of winner of the Grade 1 Acorn last month at Belmont Park, was the first of five graded stakes winners Cox breezed here Sunday. The group included Grade 1 winner Arklow, Jim Dandy-bound Tawny Port, Bonny South, and Caravel. Matareya worked an easy five furlongs in 1:03.25, galloping out six panels in 1:18.75 over a racetrack on the cuppy side, especially through the final quarter-mile from the top of the stretch to the wire, with jockey Flavien Prat aboard. “She broke off fine, but Flavien said he probably went a little bit too slow with her,” Cox noted several hours later. “But overall it’s not a big deal. She’s looking fantastic and we’ll probably just do a little more with her next week.” :: Visit the Saratoga Handicapping Store for Past Performances, Clocker Reports, Picks, Betting Strategies and more. Cox quoted the famous Forrest Gump line when talking about how the main track has been playing in the morning of late. “It’s seemed on the slow side most of the past few days,” Cox said. “I always say breezing at Saratoga is a little bit like a box of chocolates. You never know what kind of track you’re going to get.” Matareya will be returning to seven furlongs for the Test after winning the one-mile Acorn by 6 1/4 widening lengths under Prat, despite bobbling at the break. “I think shortening up to seven-eighths is a good thing for her, it's right where she wants to be,” Cox said. “A one-turn mile is okay for her, but I think she’s best at seven furlongs.”    Bonny South and Tawny Port worked in company, going five-eighths in 1:00.60 shortly after the renovation break. “It was a good move, I was happy with both of them,” Cox said. “I asked Tawny Port to go out a little bit and finish up on the turn because he’s not running for two weeks, while Bonny South runs next week.” Tawny Port, winner of the Grade 3 Ohio Derby in his last outing following a seventh-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, will make his next appearance in the Jim Dandy on July 30 while Bonny South will compete here Sunday in the Grade 2 Shuvee. Nearly five hours after his morning began with Matareya, Cox was over at the Oklahoma turf, where Arklow worked an easy five furlongs inside the cones in 1:01.72, followed immediately by Caravel, who breezed a half-mile in 49.68 before continuing out five-eighths into the turn in 1:02.51 per Daily Racing Form. Arklow will make his long-awaited comeback in the Grade 2 Bowling Green here next Sunday. It will be the 8-year-old’s first start since his fifth-place finish in the Grade 1 Turf Classic Invitational at Belmont Park in October. “He’s doing great, he looks amazing for an 8-year-old,” Cox said. “We’re using the race as a prep for something at Kentucky Downs, although he’s been ready to run for a while and I think he’s already proven a couple of times that he’s capable of winning off a layoff.” Caravel was a wire-to-wire winner of the Grade 3 Intercontinental Stakes last month at Belmont and will look to continue her winning ways when returning in the Grade 3 Caress here next Saturday. “She’s doing fantastic,” Cox said. “She had her big move last week. She was well in hand, strictly a maintenance work, this morning.” As for Mo Strike, Cox said he came out of the Sanford in good order. :: Get Saratoga Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.   “I watched the replay a couple of times last night and thought it was a very impressive effort,” Cox said. “He was in for a fight at the eighth pole and at the sixteenth pole, I think he showed he was one of the better 2-year-olds in the country right now, the way he pulled away from the field.” Cox said the Grade 1 Hopeful on Sept. 5 will be the next goal for Mo Strike, who received an 85 Beyer Speed Figure for his victory in the Sanford. “He just got here five days ago, so I think we’ll just give him a good break, let him enjoy Saratoga, develop a little more physically and hopefully he can improve again when we bring him back for the Hopeful,” Cox said.