Mr Vargas and Eddie Haskell, the first two finishers of the Grade 3 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar, are on schedule for a rematch in the Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 27.

Mr Vargas, trained by Brian Koriner for Samantha Siegel, worked a half-mile in 48.40 seconds on Saturday, his second workout of the month. Mr Vargas won his stakes debut in the Green Flash by 2 1/4 lengths over Eddie Haskell, leading throughout.

Mongolian Groom, third in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 17 and fifth in the Grade 1 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga two weeks later, may run in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28, owner and trainer Enebish Ganbat said on Sunday.

Mongolian Groom worked three furlongs in 36.60 seconds at Santa Anita on Saturday, his first workout since finishing 4 1/4 lengths behind Preservationist in the Woodward Stakes.

“He’s doing okay,” Ganbat said. “He came back a little tired from Saratoga. It was really hot.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Annals of Time, winner of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer last month at Saratoga, has sustained an injury that will prevent him from running again this year, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.

Brown said a decision on whether Annals of Time would race in 2020 as a 7-year-old would be made a later date.

“The horse needs a couple of months off, he’s going to miss everything the rest of the year, so we might as well give him an extended break and go from there,” Brown said.

Canterbury Park ended a 66-day mixed-meet racing season Saturday with across-the-board declines in betting handle.

During the 2019 meeting, $40,634,286 was wagered on 634 races, 534 of which were Thoroughbreds. That was a 16 percent decrease from the $48,142,680 bet on 668 races during the 2018 meeting, according to business figures released by Canterbury.

Average daily handle dropped 11.7 percent year over year to $615,671, while average handle per race was off 11 percent to $64,092 and average handle per starter fell to $8,769, a 7.5 percent drop.

In the Navy ran the race of his career earlier this month when he stepped outside the Louisiana-bred ranks and powered to a 3 1/2-length win in the $60,000 Frank L. Brothers on the undercard of the Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. Now, he’s headed to Oklahoma.

Trainer Scott Gelner said In the Navy is being pointed to the $100,000 Remington Green, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up on Sept. 29. It will be run on the undercard of the Oklahoma Derby.

“The first place he ever won on the turf was Remington,” Gelner said.

Pirate’s Punch would seem to have a bright future as a half-brother to Girvin, and he suggested as much in his stakes debut earlier this month when he finished a gutsy third in the Grade 3, $300,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs. 

The next stop could be the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby on Sept. 29 at Remington Park, according to trainer Grant Forster.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tiz the Law, who registered the highest Beyer Speed Figure (90) of any 2-year-old at the Saratoga meeting, breezed a very easy half-mile in 49.60 seconds immediately after the renovation break at Belmont Park on Friday under exercise rider Heather Smullen. Tiz the Law, a New York-bred son of Constitution trained by Barclay Tagg, won his only start by 4 1/4 lengths going 6 1/2 furlongs at Saratoga on Aug. 8.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tax returned to the work tab for the first time since his seventh-place finish in the Travers, breezing an easy half-mile in 50.40 seconds over the Belmont Park training track shortly after the first renovation break here Friday.

Tax went his opening quarter in 25.20 and galloped out five-eighths over the cuppy surface in 1:04.

Julien Leparoux will ride Omaha Beach in the Grade 3 Ack Ack Stakes at Churchill Downs on Sept. 28, trainer Richard Mandella said on Friday.

Mike Smith rode Omaha Beach to wins in the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes and Grade 1 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park in the spring, but is scheduled to ride top older horse McKinzie in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Covfefe figures as a heavy favorite when she has her final Breeders’ Cup prep next Saturday at Churchill Downs in the $125,000 Dogwood Stakes at seven furlongs.

Trainer Brad Cox settled on the ungraded Dogwood because the distance is the same as the BC Filly and Mare Sprint, to be run Nov. 2 at Santa Anita, and to get a relatively easy race in her, as opposed to some of the graded preps that remain.