LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Chief Cicatriz, whose 110 Beyer Speed Figure from the June 2 Aristides at Churchill Downs is the highest so far this year in North America at a sprint distance, could be headed to Del Mar later this month, according to trainer Shawn Davis.

Possible races for him there include the July 28 Bing Crosby, a Win and You’re In event toward the BC Sprint, and the Aug. 25 Pat O’Brien, a Win and You’re In event toward the BC Dirt Mile.

Gulfstream Park reported that it set records for average and total handle at its spring meeting, which began April 4 and concluded Saturday with the Summit of Speed card.

Gulfstream reported total handle for the spring meet was $334 million, up $22 million over 2017 despite six fewer days of racing. Total handle during the spring meet has climbed approximately $88 million since 2015, the track said.

Average daily handle topped $6.3 million, up about $1 million from 2017 and $2.1 million since 2015.

Caledonia Road, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2017, will not race again this year and will be offered at public auction later in 2018, her connections announced Monday night.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Aidan O’Brien could send as many as six horses to Belmont Park for Saturday’s Stars and Stripes program, with the most intriguing being Mendelssohn for the Grade 3, $300,000 Dwyer Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile.

Mendelssohn won the United Arab Emirates Derby by 18 1/2 lengths in Dubai but then finished last, beaten 73 1/4 lengths by Justify, in the Kentucky Derby. O’Brien was quoted in the European press as saying that Mendelssohn was not ready for the Kentucky Derby experience, a 20-horse field with swift early fractions.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Limousine Liberal, third in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and Whitmore, second in the Grade 2 True North, head the field expected for Saturday’s Grade 2, $350,000 Belmont Sprint Championship.

Limousine Liberal is a multiple stakes winner at the Belmont Sprint distance of seven furlongs. He finished 5 1/4 lengths behind Bee Jersey and Mind Your Biscuits in the Met Mile.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tapwrit, the 2017 Belmont Stakes winner, worked a sharp five furlongs in 1:00.71 on Sunday and was visually impressive galloping out a mile in 1:37.80 while preparing for Saturday’s Grade 2, $700,000 Suburban Stakes.

Tapwrit worked with Patch, who is possible for the Whitney or Woodward at Saratoga.

“I thought it was an excellent work,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “Did it very well, in hand. Seems like he’s doing well. He’s become a better, more impressive breeze horse, little more straightforward, focused.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Losses by Analyze It and Significant Form at short prices last month left trainer Chad Brown perhaps a bit disappointed but not deterred from running both 3-year-olds in seven-figure races at longer distances this Saturday at Belmont Park.

Analyze It suffered his first defeat when beaten a neck by Catholic Boy at odds of 1-2 in the Grade 3 Pennine Ridge at 1 1/8 miles at Belmont Park on June 2. He will represent Brown in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.2 million Belmont Derby Invitational at 1 1/4 miles.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Belmont Stakes runner-up Gronkowski missed a scheduled workout over the weekend, but trainer Chad Brown has not ruled him out of still making the Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 28.

“Gronkowski had a minor setback out of his work last week that’s just a week-to-week deal,” Brown said. “He missed his work this week, I’m just taking it week to week and seeing when I can get him back on the work tab.”

On June 23, Gronkowski worked a half-mile in 49.24 seconds.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Elate, a multiple Grade 1 winner at 3, will make her 4-year-old debut in the Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap on July 14, trainer Bill Mott said Sunday.

Elate, who won the Grade 1 Alabama at 1 1/4 miles last summer, has not raced since finishing fourth as the favorite in last November’s Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Stablemates Oscar Performance and Heart to Heart will both be in action on Aug. 11, but it won’t be in the same race.

Though trainer Brian Lynch initially said he would concentrate on one-mile races for Oscar Performance this year, he is pointing the recent Grade 3 Poker Stakes winner to the Grade 1 Arlington Million at 1 1/4 miles at Arlington Park on Aug. 11.

Heart to Heart remains on schedule for the Grade 1, $500,000 Fourstardave at Saratoga the same day.