DEL MAR, Calif. – Gimme Da Lute, a winner of graded stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita and Los Alamitos in recent starts, will revert to the California-bred division for his next start.

Trainer Bob Baffert said on Friday that Gimme Da Lute will be pointed for the $200,000 Real Good Deal Stakes for California-bred 3-year-olds at seven furlongs Aug. 2. Races such as the $750,000 West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer on Aug. 1 and the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on Aug. 2 had been mentioned as possibilities in recent weeks.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Beholder, the two-time champion, will be part of a field of about six or seven fillies and mares in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 1.

The Grade 1 Hirsch Stakes is the top race for females at the summer meeting and has significant consequences for the fall. The winner receives an automatic berth for the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Keeneland on Oct. 30 through the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In program.

Monmouth Park will open its clubhouse on Friday and Saturday, July 31 and Aug. 1, so the public can watch American Pharoah gallop. American Pharoah is scheduled to make his first start since winning the Triple Crown in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational at Monmouth on Sunday, Aug. 2.

American Pharoah is scheduled to fly from Southern California to Atlantic City International Airport on Wednesday. He is expected to arrive at 1:30 p.m. Eastern and will have a police escort to Monmouth, where he will be stabled in the barn of trainer Kelly Breen.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Lady Eli, the undefeated Grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly, continues to do well in her battle against laminitis, trainer Chad Brown said Thursday.

Brown has spent the better part of the last two weeks at Belmont Park, where Lady Eli is based and is getting 24-hour care by his staff and weekly visits from a top-notch veterinary team. Brown, back in Saratoga for opening day Friday, said Thursday that doctors are “extremely pleased with her progress, and they’re cautiously optimistic she’s putting this behind her.”

What are the chances that a Triple Crown-winning 3-year-old in the United States and a truly great European 3-year-old would emerge during the same racing season?

Whatever they are, it is happening right now, and as American Pharoah, the American Triple Crown winner, gears up for another start against fellow 3-year-olds in the Haskell Invitational, Golden Horn can expand his growing legend in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Saturday at Ascot in England, a "Win and You're In" race for the Breeders' Cup Turf.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Carpe Diem, the winner of the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in April, has been retired.

According to WinStar Farm president and chief executive Elliott Walden, Carpe Diem injured his right knee. Owned by WinStar and Stonestreet Stables, Carpe Diem will stand at stud in 2016 at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky.

Blame Jim comes into the Grade 3 Jersey Shore Stakes at Monmouth Park on Saturday off a sharp Belmont Park sprint try and will rule a solid favorite in the six-furlong race for 3-year-olds.

Blame Jim earned a 91 Beyer Speed Figure for his runner-up effort in a second-level optional-claiming race last out at Belmont. That figure dwarfs the recent figures of his six rivals in the $100,000 Jersey Shore.

Tom Amoss, one of the leading trainers in the U.S., has accepted a 45-day suspension from the Indiana Horse Racing Commission to settle a medication positive that turned up in one of his horses after a race in 2011.

The suspension will begin Sept. 17 and run through Oct. 31, the final day of the two-day Breeders’ Cup event, held this year at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Robert “Bobby” W. Hall died of natural causes Wednesday. Hall, 85, is best known as the owner and trainer of George Royal, the only British Columbia-bred to win what is considered a Grade 1 race.

George Royal gained international fame when he won the 1965 San Juan Capistrano. His second win in the Capistrano was historic as John Longden, who had announced that the Capistrano would be his last ride, brought George Royal from 15 lengths behind to win by a nose.

Three Louisiana jockeys were arrested on Thursday and charged with race-fixing following an investigation into a race run at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas in June, the state police announced.