DEL MAR, Calif. – Lava Man, the Hall of Famer who was treated for colic in late July, was recently transferred from a local equine clinic to trainer Doug O’Neill’s stable at Del Mar.

O’Neill said that Lava Man will remain with his stable until the end of the summer meeting here on Sept. 3. Lava Man has been a stable pony for O’Neill.

“He’s just chillin’,” O’Neill said. “He’ll stay here until the end of the meet and then go to a farm near Santa Anita.

“He looks phenomenal. He’s on a different diet.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Fatale Bere, the winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks for 3-year-old fillies, is expected to start in Grade 1 stakes within her age group at Keeneland and Santa Anita in coming months.

On Sunday, trainer Leonard Powell said he is targeting races such as the $500,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland on Oct. 13 and the American Oaks at Santa Anita in the final week of the year.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Fashion Business is bound for the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 3 after winning his first stakes in Saturday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Handicap. 

Trainer Phil D’Amato’s job over the next two months is to prove that the upstart 4-year-old belongs in the richest grass race in the United States.

Fashion Business earned a fees-paid berth to the $4 million BC Turf at 1 1/2 miles with an eye-catching rally in the $252,070 Del Mar Handicap at 1 3/8 miles on turf. He earned a 104 Beyer Speed Figure with the victory.

Trainer Claudio Gonzalez and jockey Jevian Toledo led their respective divisions at the Laurel Park summer meet, which concluded Sunday.

Gonzalez, a 41-year-old native of Chile, long ago clinched the training title. He won 23 races at the meet, eight more than runner-up Hamilton Smith, who won the final race of the meet to break a tie for second with Dale Capuano.

The summer meet is Gonzalez's second title this year. He also topped the standings at the Laurel winter-spring meet, which ran from the first of the year to early May.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Accelerate seemed to come out of his runaway victory in the Pacific Classic on Saturday in good condition, trainer John Sadler said Sunday morning at his Del Mar barn, allowing Sadler to move forward with the overall plan he has to attack this year’s Breeders’ Cup, with Accelerate headed toward the Classic and stablemate Catalina Cruiser to the Dirt Mile, both on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Eskimo Kisses, the dominant winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Alabama Stakes, likely will step out of the 3-year-old filly division and point to the Grade 1, $500,000 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland on Oct. 7 for next race as her connections plot out a path to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff on Nov. 3 at Churchill Downs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Topped by Belmont Stakes runner-up Gronkowski, Preakness runner-up Bravazo, and Jim Dandy winner Tenfold, six of the expected 12 entrants for Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes put in workouts Sunday morning at Saratoga.

Gronkowski, working with Kentucky Derby fourth-place finisher Instilled Regard, went five furlongs in 1:00.02, getting his last three furlongs in 35.81 seconds. He galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.71 while pulling away from Instilled Regard.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Hofburg, the dominant winner of the Curlin Stakes here on July 27, will miss Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes due to a temperature, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday morning.

Mott said while he expects Hofburg to be fine by Travers Day, he missed a couple of days of training – including a planned final workout Sunday morning – that will keep him out of the Mid-Summer Derby.

“He has a fever, and his bloodwork was a little out of whack,” Mott said. “I suppose he’d be over it by Travers Day, but we’re going to miss the race.”

The field for the Grade 1, $3 million All American Futurity for Quarter Horses next month at Ruidoso Downs has been determined after 32 trials were contested at the New Mexico track Friday and Saturday. Apocalyptical Jess ($6.40) was the fastest qualifier on Day 1 and Pilot Points Moon ($13.20) set the standard on Day 2.

The finale will be run on Sept. 3. Horses with the five fastest times Friday and the five fastest times Saturday earned the 10 available spots in the gate for the All American.

Luis Rivera Jr. rode his 1,559th winner and trained his first when Strawberry Red won race 1 at Monmouth Park on Saturday.

The win was Rivera's first as a rider since June 2017. Strawberry Red, the only horse Rivera trains, was making his third start of the meet.

Trevor McCarthy, Carlos Hernandez, and Jose Ferrer had ridden Strawberry Red in his prior starts, but Rivera climbed aboard for Saturday's $8,000 claiming race. It was his first mount since last October.