SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Gregg Sacco registered his first career Grade 1 win here last summer when Mind Control upset the Hopeful, an experience he called “really special and very meaningful” at the time.

One year later, Sacco was back in the Saratoga winner’s circle  Control celebrating his second Grade 1 victory after Mind Control rallied to the narrowest of victories over Hog Creek Hustle and 1-5 favorite Shancelot in the H. Allen Jerkens – an experience Sacco described as “even better” than the Hopeful.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It was somewhat fitting that after the dust settled from the celebration of Code of Honor’s victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Runhappy Travers Stakes, Jason Servis was standing in the winner’s circle at Saratoga.

Servis, who won the race after the Travers with the New York-bred Dowse’s Beach, is the trainer of Maximum Security, who despite not running in the Travers had his credentials for a possible 3-year-old championship bolstered by the results of the race.

A pair of qualifiers for the $3 million All American Futurity – Apollitical J Wild and Dynasty Dinamo – are ineligible to enter back in next month’s Quarter Horse classic at Ruidoso Downs after each returned a positive hair test for albuterol and was placed on the stewards’ list for 60 days, Izzy Trejo, executive director of the New Mexico Racing Commission, said Saturday.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Omaha Beach, who was briefly out of training earlier this month because of illness, resumed galloping at Del Mar on Saturday morning in advance of an expected return to racing next month.

“He had a good gallop,” trainer Richard Mandella said. “He was full of it. His nose was clean and he didn’t cough. We’re going on.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Schrodinger, the winner of a maiden special weight race in his debut at Los Alamitos on June 30, has been taken out of training because of injury and will not start in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 2.

“He’s going to go to the farm for a little bit,” trainer Simon Callaghan said on Saturday morning. “It’s a soft tissue injury.”

Callaghan said Schrodinger will be sidelined for approximately 90 days.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Vino Rosso may have convinced his connections to run him in the Grade 1, $750,000 Woodward Stakes next Saturday at Saratoga with a very strong five-furlong workout Friday morning over the main track.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Green Light Go, authoritative winner of his first two starts, including the Grade 2 Saratoga Special here on Aug. 10, will come back in three weeks and run in the Grade 1, $350,000 Hopeful Stakes here on Sept. 2, trainer Jimmy Jerkens said.

Initially, Jerkens was going to wait for the Grade 1 Champagne, a one-turn mile at Belmont on Oct. 5, but felt that might have been too much time between races.

“Couldn’t really think of a good reason not to run,” Jerkens said Friday. “To go a mile you got to train the [heck] out of them.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – The Del Mar-based Restrainedvengence, a fast-closing third in the Grade 3 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs on Aug. 11, is likely to make his next start outside of Southern California. Friday, trainer Val Brinkerhoff was trying to determine where.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Comical, a 2-year-old filly trained by Doug O’Neill, had an unceremonious end to her undefeated record with a last-place finish in the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes at six furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 3.

The winner of the Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes in the mud at Saratoga on July 11, Comical disputed the pace on the backstretch in the Sorrento, then faded rapidly through the stretch.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday approved a radically different racing calendar than in recent years for the Southern California Thoroughbred circuit in 2020.

The 2020 schedule calls for additional dates for Santa Anita; fewer dates for Los Alamitos; an additional weekend of racing at Del Mar during summer; and 13-day stretches in summer and winter with no racing.