SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Brightwork, who won two stakes including the Grade 1 Spinaway here last summer, drew the outside in a field of six entered Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Test Stakes at Saratoga for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs.

Brightwork, trained by John Ortiz, went 4 for 4 around one turn last year before finishing fifth in the Grade 1 Alcibiades and sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. The Test will be her first start of this year. John Velazquez has the call.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - National Treasure has won two Grade 1 stakes this year to emerge as the leading older dirt male in the country, though those accomplishments didn’t scare anybody away from the entry box for Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga.

National Treasure, trained by Bob Baffert, was one of 12 horses entered Sunday for the Whitney, a 1 1/8-mile race that awards its winner a fees-paid berth into the $7 million Breeders’ Cup Classic to be run Nov. 2 at Del Mar. Last year’s Whitney winner, White Abarrio, also won the Classic.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - While trainer Ken McPeek made his decision early to run the filly Thorpedo Anna against the boys in the Travers Stakes here on Aug. 24, trainer Todd Pletcher will take his time in deciding what’s next for Jim Dandy Stakes winner Fierceness and his stablemate Mindframe.

The way it sounded Saturday evening and again Sunday morning, there’s a very good chance that Fierceness doesn’t run in the Travers and a pretty good chance Mindframe skips it as well.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Ken McPeek says he likes a challenge and he’s going to take on a significant one when he runs the filly Thorpedo Anna against the boys in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 24 at Saratoga.

McPeek announced that decision Saturday a week after hinting that’s what he would do shortly after Thorpedo Anna won the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks by 4 1/4 lengths here on July 20. McPeek announced his decision on Fox Sports, which was broadcasting Saturday’s Grade 2 Jim Dandy from Saratoga.

Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., will not conduct any races over the turf during its 14-day September meet but anticipates being able to run on the grass course in November, track officials said on Friday.

Joseph Taylor, the Pennsylvania-based trainer who was suspended eight years by racing regulators last week, was handed the penalty after an arbitrator ruled there was no evidence to support his contention that his ex-wife or stepson sabotaged his operation, according to newly posted documents from the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit.

DEL MAR, Calif. - In three starts, Iscreamuscream has closed from slightly off the pace to win two sprints, and disputed the pace to win her stakes debut in the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap at a mile on turf at Del Mar on Saturday.

For her next scheduled appearance, in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Aug. 17, trainer Phil D’Amato hopes to see the patient style of her sprint wins combined with the gritty manner of her stretch run in the San Clemente.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The elements are in place for a successful start in the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 1 for Formidable Man after his first stakes win in Saturday’s $103,000 Oceanside Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on turf at Del Mar.

Formidable Man closed from ninth of 11 with a wide rally to win the Oceanside Stakes by 1 1/2 lengths in his first start at Del Mar since a win in a maiden race over the same course and distance in his debut last September.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Not needed as an understudy for Mindframe in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Haskell at Monmouth Park, Fierceness will get to play the starring role for his connections in this Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga.