SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Make Haste should be fresh and ready to flaunt her speed when she heads the field of 3-year-old fillies entered in Friday’s Grade 3, $175,000 Coronation Cup scheduled for 5 1/2 furlongs over Saratoga’s Mellon Turf Course. Seven were entered for turf in the Coronation Cup, though Laurice and Gata Brazil were cross-entered in Saturday’s $100,000 Blue Sparkler, also a turf sprint, at Monmouth Park.

The Coronation Cup is part of a $1 pick six sequence that starts with a carryover of $118,028 after the bet went unsolved on Thursday's opening-day card.

Jockey Ramon Vazquez, who leads the Lone Star Park colony with 50 wins through Thursday, is considering riding at Del Mar following the close of the Texas meet on Sunday, according to his agent, Cody Autrey.

“We’re discussing going to Del Mar over the break between Lone Star and Remington,” said Autrey. “Nothing’s set in stone yet.”

Autrey said Vazquez plans to ride this fall at Remington. Vazquez has a 16-win lead in the Lone Star standings over David Cabrera.

Trainer Abel Ramirez-Rodriguez has a lot at stake during the final week of the Lone Star Park, which closes Sunday.

Ramirez-Rodriguez, 45, is battling Lone Star’s all-time leading trainer, Steve Asmussen, for the title. It would be a first for Ramirez-Rodriguez, who began training on his own last August after serving as a longtime assistant to trainer Karl Broberg.

“We’re trying to beat the main man at Lone Star,” Ramirez-Rodriguez said. “So, all we can do is just try, just keep trying. We’ve got some live shots this week, but you never know.

Miss Mary Nell, a 3-year-old filly trained by Carlos David, has spent the last two months squeezing water from stone against daunting Florida-based rivals. She may finally catch a break as the likely favorite in a $57,000 allowance on Friday at Gulfstream Park.

After two straight victories earlier this year, David reluctantly entered his filly against male runners in a $58,000 allowance in May, where she was a well-beaten runner-up behind Iron Hand, who won his next start as well, completing a four-race streak on synthetic for trainer Jose D’Angelo.

January could not handle fillies her own age in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot, but maybe, with a meaningful weight break, she can take down older rivals Friday at Newmarket in the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes.

She has the right connections for the job in trainer Aidan O’Brien and jockey Ryan Moore and has roused the interest of antepost bettors. As of Wednesday, English bookmakers were offering January as the 5-2 co-favorite for the Falmouth, a gender-restricted straight mile that drew a field of eight.

Multiple graded stakes winner Red Route One will be retired to stud after selling for $550,000 to Narvick International during the Fasig-Tipton July horses of racing age sale.

Agent Emmanuel de Seroux, who signed the ticket, said a stallion location has not yet been secured for the 5-year-old son of Gun Runner but confirmed he will not race again.

Red Route One, who raced as a homebred for Winchell Thoroughbreds, was consigned to the sale by Taylor Made Sales, as agent. Red Route One concludes his career with a record of 28-6-4-3 and earnings of $2,165,107.

Trainer Tom Proctor is back in Saratoga for the first time in eight years, and his barn of 16 is top-heavy with 2-year-olds for his primary client, Glen Hill Farm.

Proctor hasn’t summered in Saratoga since 2017, when he went just 1 for 15. The year before, however, Proctor won six races from 14 starts.

The impetus for coming to Saratoga is that Glen Hill Farm, operated by Craig Bernick, is focusing on East Coast racing instead of California.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Victor Espinoza said he came to Saratoga about a month ago for a vacation. Now, the 53-year-old jockey said he is working as hard as ever in an attempt to revitalize his Hall of Fame career.

One call to trainer Wesley Ward and one visit to the Saratoga backstretch has reinvigorated Espinoza, who plans to ride the meet here this summer instead of Del Mar, where he has spent the last few decades.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The undefeated and yet untested 2-year-old filly Mythical will be back with her own kind when she returns to Saratoga on Aug. 3 for the Grade 3 Adirondack Stakes.