Mary Eppler wouldn’t dare say aloud that Ice Tea might be her next Page McKenney, but you couldn’t blame her for hoping.

Eppler was in Florida over the weekend to watch Ice Tea win Sunday for the third straight time in four starts since she claimed the 5-year-old gelding for owner Sean Dobbs of Flying Pheasant Farm. Ice Tea now has earned Beyer Speed Figures of 89, 100, and 96 following a 7 1/2-length romp in a Sunday allowance at Gulfstream Park.

“He’s healthy now,” Eppler said Monday from her Wellington, Fla., home. “He’s done everything we’ve asked of him so far.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Summer Sunday ($7.50) turned in another powerful front-running performance to win her third straight stakes under Rafael Hernandez in Sunday’s Grade 2 Royal North at Woodbine.

Summer Sunday went with outsider Veil through a moderate first quarter before assuming command exiting the turn in the six-furlong turf sprint. She maintained a slim lead through the stretch and got home on top by 1 1/4 lengths over 10-1 shot Magic Spell, finishing in 1:08.26 over the firm ground.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Come Dancing, the dominant winner of the Grade 2 Ruffian and Grade 3 Distaff Handicap this year, returned to the work tab Sunday, breezing three furlongs in 35.97 seconds over Saratoga’s main track.

It was Come Dancing’s first work since she finished second behind Midnight Bisou in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont Park on June 8. Javier Castellano was aboard for the work and will ride Come Dancing in the Grade 1 Ballerina here Aug. 24, trainer Carlos Martin said. Manny Franco had ridden the 5-year-old mare in all of her starts this year.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There are a lot of adjectives that can be used to describe freakishly fast workouts. But it’s hard to find the right word to convey the proper reactions to the show trainer Jorge Navarro’s unbeaten 3-year-old Shancelot put on over the main track during the late stages of training hours here Sunday in preparation for next Sunday’s Grade 2 Amsterdam.

Maximum Security, who won Saturday night’s Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park, will ship to Saratoga by the end of the week, but trainer Jason Servis stopped short of committing the multiple Grade 1 winner to the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 24.

“My feeling is I’m going to do everything like we’re running, and I’ll make a decision that week whether we can make it or not,” Servis said Sunday by phone from Monmouth Park. “If I’m not happy with him, we won’t run, and if we’re happy, we’ll run.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – The 4-year-old filly Ahimsa has changed in the last year, leaving trainer Peter Eurton enthusiastic about how much she can accomplish in coming months.

Ahimsa won her first stakes in Friday’s $90,904 Osunitas Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on turf at Del Mar, her eighth start. The win will lead to an appearance in the Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes at 1 1/8 miles on turf for fillies and mares Aug. 31.

“She does well with the time,” Eurton said.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Bellafina, a winner of six graded stakes in the last year and one of the nation’s leading 3-year-old fillies, worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 at Del Mar on Saturday in advance of the Grade 1 Test Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 3.

The $500,000 Test Stakes is run at seven furlongs for 3-year-old fillies and will be Bellafina’s first start since she finished fifth as the 9-5 favorite in the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 3.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – While there were no races held Saturday afternoon at Saratoga, there was plenty of action Saturday morning, with 134 horses putting in timed workouts over the main and Oklahoma training tracks. Training hours were altered to 5 to 9:30 a.m. to try to avoid the heat that prompted Saturday afternoon’s cancellation.

Among the notable workers were Global Campaign and Tax, both pointing to next Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy Stakes here.

Thoroughbred owner and breeder Marylou Whitney, a noted philanthropist and socialite who added to her family’s legacy in horse racing, died Friday at her home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. She was 93.

Whitney is to be inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as a “Pillar of the Turf” on Aug. 2. The induction ceremony is on the eve of the Grade 1 Whitney at Saratoga Race Course honoring her family, for which she annually presented the trophy. Whitney was beloved in the upstate New York town, where she was known as the “Queen of Saratoga.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Even 2 1/2 hours after he got off of War of Will on Friday morning, it was hard to wipe the smile from the face of jockey Tyler Gaffalione.

Shortly after 5:30 a.m., Gaffalione guided War of Will, the Preakness winner, through a half-mile workout in 49.32 seconds over the Saratoga main track. War of Will proceeded to gallop out five furlongs in 1:02.12 and six furlongs in 1:15.53, per Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch, in preparation for next Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy.