SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – It is his immense respect for the horses in the sprint division as much as a desire to try his horse around two turns that has trainer Chad Summers excited to run Mind Your Biscuits in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.2 million Whitney Stakes at Saratoga.

“I feel like the older [route] division is a softer division right now,” Summers said Monday. “Do you want to run against Imperial Hint for $350,000 or run against these horses for $1.2 million? I want to take a shot at $1.2 million against these horses.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Last week, on a quiet morning at Del Mar, Drayden Van Dyke slipped out of the stable area and drove to a local fast food joint to buy breakfast for the staff at trainer John Sadler’s barn.

From the drive-thru, Van Dyke ordered 30 breakfast sandwiches and 10 burritos, much to the surprise of the restaurant staff. A few minutes later, two members of the staff walked to Van Dyke’s car with the $170 order.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Triple Crown winner Justify won’t be running in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers, but the runners-up in all three Triple Crown races, the top 3-year-old turf horse in America, and a Canadian-bred filly who has twice defeated males will, making for an interesting 149th renewal of the Midsummer Derby, to be run Aug. 25 at Saratoga.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Joel Rosario will fly in from New York to replace the injured Victor Espinoza aboard Accelerate in the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 18, trainer John Sadler said Monday morning.

Sadler said he and Rosario "have a good history together," going back to when Rosario was a regular on the Southern California circuit. They were the leading trainer and jockey at the 2009 summer meeting here, for instance.

"We won the title here, won some big races together," Sadler said. "He's a good rider. And he was available."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – After back-to-back third-place finishes in the Queen’s Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes, Cooler Mike will skip the third and final leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes over 1 1/2-miles on turf back at Woodbine on Aug. 18, trainer Nick Nosowenko said.

Nosowenko said Cooler Mike has already been turned out on the farm for a break from training.

“He came out [of the Prince of Wales] good, so I figured now’s the time to get him some green grass,” he said. “We’ll get him back in a couple weeks and we’ll start all over again.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Win the War made a strong impression in two starts as a 2-year-old last season at Woodbine, winning a maiden race on turf and the Glorious Song Stakes by 11 1/4 lengths on Tapeta. She hasn’t raced since finishing third in the Grade 2 Santa Ynez Stakes at Santa Anita in January, but is on track to make her return to the races Aug. 11 in the $100,000 Duchess Stakes over seven furlongs on Tapeta, trainer Mark Casse said.

“She’s been training really well,” he said. “We’re really excited to get her started.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Mr Havercamp, the fourth-place finisher in the Forbidden Apple Stakes at Belmont Park on July 14, will be pointed toward the Grade 1, $800,000 Woodbine Mile on Sept. 15, trainer Catherine Day Phillips said.

The Woodbine Mile has been a target for Mr Havercamp since his win in the Steady Growth Stakes to kick off his 2018 campaign on June 16, Day Phillips said. Mr Havercamp ran in the Forbidden Apple because he couldn’t make the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes at Woodbine on June 30.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Promises Fulfilled is headed to the Grade 1, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes following his dominant 3 1/4-length victory over Engage in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Amsterdam Stakes.

Promises Fulfilled avoided a speed duel with Strike Power, took over turning for home and won with authority despite drifting in a bit in midstretch. He covered 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:15.18.

“He’s a good horse,” trainer Dale Romans said. “He was right there in 43 and 4, ran three-quarters faster than they did in the Vanderbilt and kept on going.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Luis Carvajal said he was “still on Cloud Nine” Sunday morning, one day after Imperial Hint gave him, owner Raymond Mamone, and the horse himself their first Grade 1 victory in Saturday’s $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Catholic Boy, the Grade 1 Belmont Derby winner, and Gronkowski, the Belmont Stakes runner-up, put in workouts Sunday over Saratoga’s main track in preparation for what appears to be shaping up as a wide-open renewal of the Grade 1 Travers Stakes on Aug. 25.

The connections of Catholic Boy have not fully committed to the Travers, but Sunday marked the colt’s first work on dirt since his final breeze for the Florida Derby back in March.