While Dorth Vader won the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps for George Weaver on June 6, the veteran trainer would like to forget the rest of June.

During the month, Weaver had barns at Belmont and Saratoga placed under quarantine for separate cases of strangles, a highly contagious disease that affects a horse’s respiratory system. Thankfully, the horses who tested positive seem to be improving.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Mindframe, who may have vaulted to the head of a deep older male dirt class with his victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Stephen Foster at Churchill Downs, arrived back in Saratoga on Monday morning and will be strongly considered for a start in the Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes here Aug. 2, trainer Todd Pletcher said Monday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown is hoping Thursday’s $150,000 Wild Applause Stakes at Saratoga will be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things for a trio of his lightly raced but promising 3-year-old fillies. Brown’s Lavender Disaster, Play With Fire, and Midway Memories all figure prominently in the one-mile turf stakes.