ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Sofia Vives had an eventful week.

It began when she was unseated in the slop on Monday, July 15, at Fort Erie. Unscathed, she came right back to ride the next race there. The award-winning apprentice then had a career day here Saturday when winning both the $503,000 Woodbine Oaks and Grade 2 Connaught Cup.

Vives is being reunited with Hunt Master in Thursday’s featured conditioned allowance with a $50,000 claiming option. They teamed for a front-running score over first-level allowance stock in a seven-furlong turf sprint Oct. 22.

DEL MAR, Calif. – There is more than one path to the marquee race of the Del Mar summer meet. Reincarnate will take the road less traveled, and perhaps Salesman will also.

The conventional prep for the Grade 1 Pacific Classic is the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap, a 1 1/16-mile race on Saturday expected to include Grade 1 winners Arabian Knight and Express Train, and Group 1 winner Subsanador.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The connections of Roses for Debra will have to wait another day to try and avenge her narrow defeat to Future Is Now in last month’s Grade 2 Intercontinental Stakes.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Ottoman Fleet, a two-time graded stakes winner in the United States this year for Godolphin and trainer Charlie Appleby, returned to the work tab Friday morning. He went a half-mile in 53.63 seconds over the Oklahoma turf course, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch, but went his last quarter in 25.63 seconds and then galloped out extremely well. He is preparing for a start in either the Grade 1 Fourstardave here on Aug. 10 or a stakes at Woodbine.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though he is entered in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Stakes at Monmouth Park, Fierceness remained in Saratoga while his Todd Pletcher-trained stablemates Mindframe and Tuscan Sky were put on a van early Friday morning bound for Monmouth Park.

Provided there was no hiccup for Mindframe at Monmouth Saturday morning – à la the fever that forced Pletcher to scratch Mentee from the July 13 Sanford Stakes – then the Belmont Stakes runner-up will run in the Haskell and Fierceness will run in next Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Kingsbarns, the Grade 1 Stephen Foster winner, returned to the work tab Friday morning in Saratoga but he will bypass the Grade 1 Whitney Stakes here on Aug. 3 and point to the Grade 1 Jockey Club Gold Cup at Saratoga on Sept. 1, trainer Todd Pletcher said.

Pletcher said the Jockey Club, at 1 1/4 miles, will be used as a stepping-stone to the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 1.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Shotgun Hottie won the Grade 3 Molly Pitcher Stakes at Monmouth Park last summer and her mid-season goal for 2024 was a return visit to the Jersey Shore for that same $500,000 stakes run over the weekend.

That was until word came out that Idiomatic, last year’s champion older female, was running in that race.

Thus, Shotgun Hottie shows up in Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Shuvee Stakes at Saratoga, where she figures to go off the favorite against four opponents in the 1 1/8-mile race.

The last time she ran in a stakes race things didn’t go especially well for the 5-year-old mare Your So Sillea. The last time she raced at Ellis Park they went even worse. But if Your So Sillea runs to her current form – and there’s no obvious reason to believe she won’t – she’ll win the $125,000 Twin Bridges Stakes on Monday at Ellis.

Carded at six furlongs on dirt for older fillies and mares, the Twin Bridges drew a moderate field of eight. Your So Sillea ought to be favored, with Non Violence, the runner-up in this race a year ago, the second choice.

Sparkle Blue seeks to capture Laurel Park’s $100,000 Big Dreyfus Stakes for the second consecutive year when she starts as the likely favorite against six other fillies and mares racing 1 1/8 miles on turf.

The Big Dreyfus shares top billing on the Sunday program with the $75,000 Miss Disco for Maryland-bred 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs on dirt.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Abaan has defeated L’Imperator the previous two times they have met. Arch Kingsley, the trainer of L’Imperator, believes his horse could flip the script Sunday at Saratoga when the two meet again in the Grade 1, $150,000 A.P. Smithwick Memorial Steeplechase going 2 3/8 miles over National fences.

The Smithwick was originally scheduled for Wednesday, but was postponed when rain forced that card’s races off the turf.