SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Kenny McPeek has already made a bit of history this year by winning the Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks in the same year, becoming the first trainer to accomplish the feat since Ben Jones did it in 1952.

Now, three months later, McPeek will try to make some more history when he sends out his Kentucky Oaks winner Thorpedo Anna against seven 3-year-old males in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes as she attempts to become the first filly since Lady Rotha in 1915 to accomplish the feat.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The rapid development of Sunset Glory from maiden winner in April to minor stakes winner at Del Mar last Friday will lead to an appearance in a graded stakes this fall.

The Grade 2 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf at Santa Anita on Oct. 5 is considered a realistic goal for Sunset Glory, who won her stakes debut in the CTT-TOC Stakes at 1 3/8 miles on turf at Del Mar on Friday for Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Bruce Treitman and trainer Michael McCarthy.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Grade 1 winner Sweet Azteca will stay home this weekend to run for a $100,000 purse in the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap at Del Mar rather than ship to Saratoga for a shot at a $500,000 purse in the Grade 1 Ballerina on Saturday at Saratoga.

“We gave a lot of thought to going back there,” trainer Michael McCarthy said Sunday. “I think, ultimately, the difference was the Breeders’ Cup is held here (Del Mar) in November.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Anarchist, winner of the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Handicap a year ago at Del Mar, has a bigger purse to aim for rather than defend his title in the sprint scheduled for Saturday.

Instead, the 5-year-old is headed to South Korea for the Group 3, $1 million Korea Sprint on Sept. 8 at Seoul Racecourse. After a sharp workout Sunday at Del Mar under jockey Edwin Maldonado, trainer Doug O’Neill said it is full speed ahead to South Korea.

Anarchist worked five furlongs in 1:00. But it was the way he did it that impressed O’Neill and Maldonado.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Arabian Knight, last year’s winner of the Grade 1 Pacific Classic and fourth in his recent comeback in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap, will cut back to one turn for the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes on Saturday at Del Mar.

The addition of Arabian Knight makes the seven-furlong Pat O’Brien arguably the race of the meet.

Rich Strike, the 2022 Kentucky Derby winner, has suffered another setback in his longshot attempt to make it back to the races and his future will likely be determined in the next 60 days, owner Rick Dawson said Sunday.

Rich Strike, who had spent the last two months in Saratoga and had four workouts under the tutelage of trainer Bill Mott, has a new injury to his left foreleg, Dawson said. The horse will be on medication for a 30-day period and then, following another 30 days off medication, an ultrasound will be performed to determine how the issue is healing, Dawson said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine canceled the remainder of the program after the fifth race on Saturday’s King’s Plate Card due to unsafe track conditions. The $1 million Plate is expected to be run next Friday, along with the other four stakes that were to be contested Saturday. 

A torrential rainstorm blew through the area after the first race was at 12:25 p.m. Shortly after, all the turf races on the card were moved to the Tapeta, which continued to take considerable rain throughout the afternoon, causing drainage problems and flooding in the tunnels to the track.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Led by the fabulous filly Thorpedo Anna, six of the eight prospective starters for next week’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes put in their final workouts Saturday morning in Saratoga.

Thorpedo Anna, attempting to become the first filly since 1915 to win the Travers, Fierceness, the juvenile champion of 2023, and Dornoch, the most accomplished 3-year-old male in the country, all worked within three minutes of each other on the main track shortly after 7 a.m. Saturday.

Tommy Roberts, a radio and television pioneer who packaged the first full-card simulcast signals to be sold to Las Vegas casinos, ushering in the first modern age of racing, died on Aug. 14 at his home in Banner Elk, N.C., after a recurrence of cancer, according to family members. Roberts was 96.

Gerald Butler, a trainer based in Illinois for most of his 33-year career, has been provisionally suspended by the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit on charges of possession of levothyroxine, a banned substance that stimulates thyroid function, according to a HIWU ruling.