SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mo Plex, the two-length winner of the Grade 3 Ohio Derby, is likely to make his next start in the Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes here on July 26 rather than the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational a week earlier, trainer Jeremiah Englehart said.

“We’re leaning toward the Jim Dandy right now,” Englehart said. “Just race dynamics. Both races, you’re facing quality horses. We also get to stay here.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The presence of Book’em Danno in next Saturday’s Grade 2, $400,000 Vanderbilt at Saratoga may alter the expected field somewhat when entries are drawn on Sunday. One horse who is definitely going to face him, however, is Mullikin, who finished second to Book’em Danno in last month’s Grade 3 True North Stakes here.

Fierceness, second in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, worked five furlongs Friday in 1:01.68 over Saratoga’s main track, starting a length behind workmate Dreamlike and finishing a length in front.

Fierceness, last year’s Travers winner, is pointing to the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney on Aug. 2. He galloped out six furlongs in 1:15.18 and seven furlongs in 1:28.63.

Komorebino Omoide, who was just edged in the $250,000 Texas Turf Classic last month at Lone Star Park, could remain on the grass for his next start, trainer Robertino Diodoro said Friday.

The horse, who earlier in the meet won the Grade 3, $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile on dirt, ran second by a half-length in the Texas Turf Classic.

“He’s most likely going back on the turf at Ellis Park,” Diodoro said.

Oaklawn racing secretary Pat Pope said Friday that officials with the Hot Springs, Ark., track are headed to Saratoga next week to recruit stables for the Oaklawn meet that opens in December.

Pope said the first condition book was to have been sent to the printer on Friday. Oaklawn’s stall applications close Sept. 18. He said the stable area opens Oct. 24.

Pope said Oaklawn officials plan to visit Del Mar in August and Kentucky and Indiana in September.

Usually Wrong, who emerged as the top turf sprinter of the Lone Star Park meet that ends Sunday, is scheduled to make his next start at Del Mar, trainer Robertino Diodoro said on Friday.

Usually Wrong is being pointed for the Grade 3, $150,000 Green Flash Handicap on Aug. 30. The five-furlong race is part of the Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” program, with the winner earning a fees-paid berth into the BC Turf Sprint.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Governor Sam, a four-time stakes winner at 2, looks to get back on track after two disappointing efforts to begin his 3-year-old campaign when he starts as the probable favorite in Sunday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Quick Call Stakes scheduled for 5 1/2 furlongs over Saratoga’s Mellon Turf course.

Six 3-year-olds are entered in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris on Sunday at Longchamp Racecourse, but if established form holds, the race comes down to New Ground and Trinity College.

Trinity College figures favored on the North American tote, in great part because he has run two strong races, but also because Ryan Moore rides him for trainer Aidan O’Brien. New Ground figures a more appealing bet, in great part because he’s already proven to stay the Grand Prix de Paris’s 1 1/2-mile distance.

Train the Trainer has been a quick study in his short career, coming out of a key maiden race to win his next two starts, including the Mike Lee Stakes at Saratoga.

“I’ve learned you just have to stay out of his way and let him do his thing. He’s very appropriately named,” joked trainer Rob Atras, who took over care of the gelding this spring.