Elate will be favored over eight rivals Saturday when she attempts to win the Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap for the second year in a row. The card also includes four $100,000 stakes that comprise Round 3 of the MATCH Series.

Trained by Bill Mott, Elate is the 122-pound highweight in the Del Cap and will concede two to 10 pounds to the competition. If she is successful, she will become the seventh two-time winner of the race since it was established in 1937 and the first since Royal Delta won it in 2012 and 2013. Three-time champion Royal Delta also was trained by Mott.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Josie Carroll is taking a wait-and-see approach regarding who she’ll run in the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, the middle leg of the Canadian Triple Crown on July 23 at Fort Erie.

In the $1 million Queen’s Plate on June 29 at Woodbine, Carroll saddled the 5-2 second choice, Avie’s Flatter, who finished a valiant second. Back in fourth was her other runner, the lightly raced He’s a Macho Man, who rallied belatedly in the slow-paced Tapeta event.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was informed by Del Mar officials during a meeting late Monday that the track was not willing to let him run horses at its meet that begins next week, a situation his attorney, Drew Couto, decried Tuesday.

“Del Mar is unwilling to take a public-relations risk is the easiest summary of it,” Couto said Tuesday morning when asked the results of the meeting, which took place at Del Mar. “Regardless of how supportive they are of Jerry, they don’t feel they want to take the PR risk.

Mid-Atlantic rider Alex Cintron won his 1,000th race in North America on Monday aboard Lorden’s Love in the fourth race at Delaware Park.

Lorden’s Love, who is trained by Scott Lake, paid $15.40 in the $12,500 claiming race.

Cintron is currently riding in both Delaware and Maryland. He leads the Thoroughbred standings at Delaware and through six races Monday trails Carol Cedeno by one win in the overall standings. Delaware often closes out its cards with an Arabian race.

The Arlington racing office on Sunday listed 13 names as possible runners for Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 American Derby, the local prep for the Grade 1 Secretariat next month. The American Derby is one of four turf stakes on the Million Preview Day card and appears to be coming up with the deepest, most interesting field on the program.

Trainer Tony Mitchell late Monday morning was replacing a couple broken fans set up to blow into stalls in his Arlington shed row. The stall of the stable star, Sir Anthony, was never allowed to get too warm.

“He’s got the biggest fan – and a big fan club,” said Mitchell, who himself had traveled with Sir Anthony for a successful holiday trip last week to Prairie Meadows, where Sir Anthony won the Grade 3, $300,000 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker on Friday night.

Promises Fulfilled earned himself a fees-paid berth back to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint by virtue of his easy 4 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 2 John A Nerud Stakes. But his trainer, Dale Romans, said he’s not ruling the Dirt Mile out when his speedster returns to the Breeders’ Cup this fall at Santa Anita.

At some point during the Saratoga meet, the New York Racing Association plans to offer a pick six wager along the lines of the Rainbow 6 that has become popular in other jurisdictions, most notably Gulfstream Park.

The wager, which has a 20-cent minimum bet, pays out the entire pool only if there is one ticket with all six winners. If there is more than one winning ticket, 75 percent of the pool would be distributed to those winning tickets, with 25 percent being carried over to the next day’s card.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Tiz a Slam captured the Grade 3 Singspiel Stakes in his most recent start June 22, and trainer Roger Attfield said he will now point him toward the Grade 2, $175,000 Nijinsky Stakes over 1 1/2 miles on turf July 28, a race Tiz a Slam won last season.