Ed Burgart, the popular track announcer at Los Alamitos, has postponed his retirement until the end of the 2019 season.

The track announced Saturday that Burgart had reached an agreement with track owner Ed Allred to remain in the position through next year. Burgart was originally scheduled to retire at the end of June this year, and then at the end of this year.

Burgart said he plans to take vacations in February, March, and September in 2019 but otherwise will call the year-round Quarter Horse and lower-level Thoroughbred night meeting at Los Alamitos.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Carrick was flying back to New York on Sunday after sending horseplayers flying back to their past performances, trying to figure out how he won the Grade 1, $400,000 Secretariat Stakes on Saturday at Arlington.

Carrick’s three starts before the Secretariat: A $40,000 maiden-claiming win, a $50,000 non-winners-of-two starter-allowance win, and a third in the Grade 3 Kent, which Untamed Domain probably would’ve won without terrible trouble.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Chad Brown has trained far more than his fair share of elite female turf horses, and Sistercharlie continues rising through those ranks.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Robert Bruce, having taken care of business Saturday by winning the Arlington Million, was headed back to New York on Sunday for a fall campaign likely to focus on races over longer distances than the Million’s 1 1/4 miles.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Spring Quality had to be scratched from the Arlington Million after shipping poorly to Arlington from Maryland but has improved considerably since Saturday, trained Sunday morning here, and was well enough to get on an equine charter and fly to New York early Sunday afternoon. If Spring Quality continues getting back to his normal self, he’ll start in the Grade 1, $1 million Sword Dancer on Aug. 25 at Saratoga.

“He had a good night last night,” trainer Graham Motion said Sunday morning.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Cordiality may return to a turf sprint at Santa Anita this fall after winning her second stakes for California-bred turf-mile females in the $151,035 Solana Beach Stakes at Del Mar on Friday.

On Saturday trainer and co-owner Mark Glatt said the $100,000 California Distaff Handicap for statebreds at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course Oct. 13 is a possibility for Cordiality.

Cordiality won the Fran’s Valentine Stakes for Cal-breds at Santa Anita on May 19 and was third in the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes there June 24.

DEL MAR, Calif. - From brilliant 2-year-old prospects to older stakes horses, there were notable runners among the 183 horses who recorded workouts at Del Mar on Saturday. Several are expected to start before the current summer meeting ends on Sept. 3.

Beach View, the winner of the Grade 3 Cougar II Handicap at 1 1/2 miles on July 25, worked five furlongs in 1:01.80 for the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at 1 1/4 miles on Aug. 18. Beach View won his first stakes in the Cougar II, drawing off by 4 3/4 lengths.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Led by probable favorite Good Magic, three of the 10 horses expected for the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes here on Aug. 25 put in workouts over Saratoga’s main track Saturday morning.

Good Magic, the Kentucky Derby runner-up and dominant winner of the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational in his most recent start, went a half-mile in 48.18 seconds by himself, getting his final quarter in 23.81.

“Very happy with that, love the way he’s moving,” trainer Chad Brown said shortly after the work. “He’s been thriving up here, that horse. Thriving.”

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Spring Quality has been withdrawn from today’s Grade 1 Arlington Million.

The winner of the Grade 1 Manhattan in his most recent start, Spring Quality shipped here this week from trainer Graham Motion’s base at Fair Hill in Maryland. Motion posted on Twitter than Spring Quality hadn't traveled well, necessitating the scratch.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Monomoy Girl put in a workout Saturday morning over Saratoga’s main track, but her connections are sticking with their plan to skip next Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama here and point to the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion at Parx on Sept. 22.

In her first breeze since winning the Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga on July 22, Monomoy Girl went a half-mile in 49.93 seconds in company with the 3-year-old New York-bred filly Purely Lucky.