SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Rusty Arnold will be a busy man on Sept. 7, with horses to run in stakes at Belmont Park and Kentucky Downs.

Arnold plans to run Concrete Rose at Belmont Park in the $750,000 Jockey Club Oaks, the third and final leg of the New York Racing Association’s Turf Trinity for 3-year-old fillies. At Kentucky Downs, he will have Leinster for the Grade 3, $700,000 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint and Morticia for the Grade 3, $500,000 Ladies Sprint at 6 1/2 furlongs.

“It’s a very good problem to have. We’ll figure out how to work it out,” Arnold said.

Even when he gets away from Saratoga, Ian Wilkes can’t seem to get away from fellow trainer Chad Brown.

Wilkes is dispatching the promising 3-year-old colt Ry’s the Guy to the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes on Saturday at Arlington Park, where Brown will be front and center with two of the likely favorites, Fog of War and Valid Point. The Secretariat is being run at one mile for the first time in a significant reduction from its traditional distance of 1 1/4 miles.

Thunder Snow will be pointed to the Grade 1 Woodward on Aug. 31 after scratching from Saturday's Whitney due to an elevated temperature diagnosed following a brief training session the morning of the race.

While trainer Saeed bin Suroor returned to England, Thunder Snow remained in Saratoga, moving from the quarantine barn on the Oklahoma side of Saratoga to the Greentree training facility adjacent to the backstretch of the main track. Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum, owner of Thunder Snow, owns the Greentree property.

Chance It earned a second consecutive Beyer Speed Figure of 91 in winning the Dr. Fager Stakes on Saturday at Gulfstream Park while further entrenching himself among the elite 2-year-olds in South Florida this summer.

Trained by Saffie Joseph Jr. for the Shooting Star Thoroughbreds partnership, managed by Mary Lightner, Chance It was coming off a 92 Beyer in a June 29 maiden victory. Lightner said potential buyers’ inquiries have been fielded but turned down.

“It’s hard to get a really good horse like him,” she said.

Santa Anita inspected the grading of the main track and is installing a new drainage system under the inside rail in preparation for the track’s autumn meeting, which begins in late September.

Track consultant Dennis Moore said on Friday the grading of the main track was completed after stables left Santa Anita for Del Mar last month.

“We took it all the way down to the base and made sure the grade and the base was all right, and it is,” he said in a phone interview. “We found nothing wrong with it.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Omaha Beach is quickly coming to hand. In only his third official work since going back in training, he went five furlongs in 59.80 seconds on Sunday morning at Del Mar, the fastest time of the 75 drills at the distance.

Mike Smith, back in town following a Saturday night flight home from Saratoga, where he won the Whitney on McKinzie, was up for trainer Richard Mandella.

Mandella, who might be trying out for "Dancing With the Stars" with the fancy footwork he’s shown following Omaha Beach’s last two works, said watching Omaha Beach was “exciting.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – La Force, the winner of the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita on June 1, is a candidate for the Grade 2 John Mabee Stakes on turf on Aug. 31, co-owner Chuck Winner said over the weekend.

La Force was third in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes at 1 1/16 miles for fillies and mares on dirt on July 28, finishing 5 1/4 lengths behind Ollie’s Candy.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Lazy Daisy and Comical had opposite results for trainer Doug O’Neill in separate races on Saturday at Del Mar, but they remain the stable’s hopes for the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante on Aug. 31.

Comical finished last of six as the 2-1 favorite in the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes, fighting for the lead from a rail position under jockey Julien Leparoux before fading from contention in the final furlong. She finished 12 1/2 lengths behind the impressive race winner Amalfi Sunrise.

At the beginning of the year, trainer Brad Cox made the Test his goal for Covfefe and the daughter of Into Mischief achieved it Saturday, outfinishing the Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress to win the race Grade 1 fixture for 3-year-old fillies by a half-length.

Now, Cox said Sunday, he is in no hurry to come up with a plan for Covfefe’s next start.

“We put a lot into her to get ready for this race, I’m just going to take a deep breath, I’m going to let Covfefe take a deep breath,” Cox said. “This was the goal.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With a signature victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney Stakes on his résumé and a berth in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic in November secured, McKinzie was scheduled to head home to California on Monday and he might not have to leave the state for the remainder of the year.

Trainer Bob Baffert said he would likely run McKinzie one more time before the BC Classic, scheduled for Nov. 2 at Santa Anita. By process of elimination, the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28 might make the most sense.