SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Evvie Jets will try to prove her game victory over the more highly regarded Chad Brown-trained duo of Technical Analysis and Haughty in the Perfect Sting Stakes at Belmont Park on July 2 was no fluke when the trio meet again under similar condition, at a mile on the turf, in Wednesday’s $135,000 De La Rose Stakes.

The De La Rose goes as the eighth event on a 10-race program at Saratoga and will be the fourth leg of a pick-six sequence that begins with a carryover of $193,972.

Juan Hernandez, the leading rider at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting earlier this year, will miss most of three days of racing at Del Mar to serve a suspension for a recent riding infraction.

Hernandez is suspended on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10, for his ride on Wide West in the Daisycutter Handicap for turf sprinters last Friday. Hernandez was cited for altering course without sufficient clearance in the stretch. Wide West was disqualified from sixth and placed seventh.

After a troubled start, the well-regarded 2-year-old Heartland seemed hopelessly beaten in a maiden race at 5 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar on Saturday.

Then came the stretch run. Racing on the rail in a field of six, Heartland closed with a flashy rally under jockey Juan Hernandez to win by two lengths in what is likely to be a prep for the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity at seven furlongs Sept. 10.

“He dug in,” trainer Bob Baffert said on Sunday. “He got a lot of experience from that. We’re happy with him.”

The Indiana-bred dirt route 3-year-old fillies so far this season have been much faster than the Indiana-bred dirt route colts and geldings. That’s not an indictment of the colts and geldings so much as a credit to the fillies.

Trainer Phil D’Amato’s turf heavy stable delivered a career milestone Sunday, sweeping the top four positions in the Grade 2 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar with Gold Phoenix, Balnikhov, Masteroffoxhounds, and Count Again.

“That was a fun day to see all four of your horses perform well and be competitive from the eighth pole to the wire,” D’Amato reflected on Monday. “It was a great experience and something I won’t forget.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When one sees Elegant Taste entered in Thursday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Glens Falls Stakes at Saratoga, the first thought is the filly was entered in the wrong race.

Just two weeks ago, the 4-year-old filly won a $10,000 claiming race at Penn National, a race originally scheduled for turf but run on dirt.

She was claimed out of that race by owner Janet Quaintance and trainer Carl O’Callaghan. She will run in Thursday’s 1 1/2-mile race for trainer Lawrence Smith.

Nashwa rediscovered her better form again July 14 winning the Group 1 Falmouth Stakes at Newmarket just in time to make a serious bid to win the Nassau Stakes for the second year in a row. But to do so, she’ll have to beat the sensational 3-year-old filly Blue Rose Cen while conceding eight pounds in the Group 1 Nassau on Thursday at Goodwood Racecourse.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Aspen Grove, impressive winner of the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks, heads an 11-horse field of 3-year-old fillies entered in Friday’s Grade 3, $400,000 Saratoga Oaks Invitational at 1 3/16 miles.

Aspen Grove, trained by James Stack, shipped to Saratoga shortly after the Belmont Oaks and has had two works over the training track.

Trainer Aidan O’Brien in 2000 won the St. James’s Palace Stakes, the Eclipse Stakes, and the Sussex Stakes with the 3-year-old colt Giant’s Causeway. He starts odds-on favorite Paddington trying to pull the same triple in the Group 1 Sussex on Wednesday at Goodwood Racecourse in England.

Giant’s Causeway is the only recent winner of all three Group 1 stakes, the St. James’s Palace an age-restricted mile at Royal Ascot, the Eclipse a 1 1/4-mile contest open to older horses, and the Sussex another mile, this also open to older horses and run over Goodwood’s quirky, turning course.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Cherie DeVaux will split up her two talented 3-year-old turf runners, electing to start More Than Looks in Friday’s Grade 2, $500,000 National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga while sending Northern Invader to Colonial Downs for the Grade 2, $500,000 Secretariat Stakes on Aug. 12.

“More Than Looks is more accomplished. He’s already won a stakes and has more turf experience,” DeVaux said. “Northern Invader is very impressive. It’s a tall task to go into a spot like the Hall of Fame.”