To accommodate expected construction of a hockey arena on the grounds of Belmont Park, the final 14 race days of the 37-day Belmont fall meet will be conducted at Aqueduct, the New York Racing Association announced Wednesday.

Racing at Belmont will run Sept. 6 through Oct. 6 and allow for all of the usual Grade 1 stakes, such as the Jockey Club Gold Cup and Joe Hirsch Turf Classic, to be run there. Racing will move to Aqueduct on Oct. 11 and what will be considered the Belmont fall meet will go through Oct. 27.

The stakes winners Ohio and Paved and the stakes-placed Vibrance will be among trainer Michael McCarthy’s scheduled runners at Del Mar this summer, while the stakes winner Liam the Charmer is being given a rest.

Liam the Charmer “is getting a little break,” McCarthy said.

Liam the Charmer, who won the Grade 2 John Henry Turf Championship last September and was later 12th in the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs, was sixth in an allowance race with an $80,000 claiming option June 14 at Santa Anita.

On opening day at Del Mar and the second Sunday of the meet, Nolde and Paradise Woods will give trainer John Shirreffs leading contenders in two stakes in the early days of the track’s summer meeting.

Nolde, unbeaten in two starts on turf, will make his stakes debut in the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile on turf on the opening-day program July 17. Owned by Jerry Moss, Nolde worked five furlongs in 1:02 at Santa Anita on Wednesday.

Talk Veuve to Me, the winner of the 2018 Indiana Oaks, has been disqualified from an April 11 allowance victory at Keeneland after testing positive for aminocaproic acid, a prohibited race-day adjunct bleeder medication, Kentucky stewards announced Sunday. Her trainer, Rodolphe Brisset, was fined $500, and the purse was redistributed, resulting in Treble, the initial runner-up, now declared the winner.

CYPRESS, Calif. – The Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby on Saturday is likely to have four entrants, its smallest field in six years, with a field consisting of three horses trained by Bob Baffert and one by Hector Palma.

Baffert said Wednesday that he entered Game Winner, Kingly, and Mucho Gusto but may run Mucho Gusto in the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational on July 20 at Monmouth Park.

“I put him in there for insurance in case something would happen or I change my mind for the Haskell,” he said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Monomoy Girl, last year’s champion 3-year-old filly who has spent the past few months at WinStar Farm in Versailles, Ky., after a mild case of colic in the spring, is mere days away from a return to the racetrack. Trainer Brad Cox said she was likely to rejoin his Churchill Downs barn on Friday or Saturday with a goal of training toward the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita on Nov. 2.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Three years ago, Bitumen won his debut at Churchill Downs and came back to win his next start in the Grade 3 Sanford Stakes at Saratoga.

Eddie Kenneally, trainer of Bitumen, will hope for history to repeat itself Saturday when he sends out By Your Side in the $150,000 Sanford Stakes for 2-year-olds at six furlongs.

Like Bitumen, By Your Side won his debut, beating even-money favorite Basin by a nose at Churchill Downs. By Your Side will make his second start against just four opponents in the Sanford.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It’s often said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

When it comes to the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga, trainer Graham Motion is out of his mind.

“I’d be lying if I didn’t say it’s become a bit of an obsession of mine,” said Motion, who with Secret Message will run in his 12th Diana as a trainer still in search of his first win.

“It’s actually been a race I’ve always wanted to win,” said Motion, whose first starter in the race came in 1997.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – “It’s been a hell of a year,” trainer Jason Servis said Monday. And the year is only half over.

Servis will be at Saratoga this week to kick off the second half of a campaign during which he has already won 79 races for purses totaling nearly $5 million and 15 stakes, seven of them graded. And those imposing figures do not count the one that got away, Maximum Security’s apparent victory and subsequent controversial disqualification in the Kentucky Derby.

Mine That Bird, winner of the 2009 Kentucky Derby, will make an appearance Saturday at Ruidoso Downs, according to a press release from the New Mexico track. He is being feted in conjunction with his Friday night induction into the Ruidoso Downs Racehorse Hall of Fame.

Others entering the Ruidoso Hall on Friday are Harriett Peckham, who alone or in partnership owned Easy Jet, Go Man Go, and Rocket Bar; Leo Wood, who trained All American Futurity winner Pie In The Sky; and Johnny Cox, who was aboard Mr Kid Charge for his win in the All American Futurity.