DEL MAR, Calif. – The best horse at Del Mar won’t run here, and time is running out for him to potentially run again.

Justify, the Triple Crown winner, has arrived at Del Mar, where he is walking daily. He was removed from training after filling developed in an ankle earlier this month at Santa Anita. He was brought out for local television media here in the barn area on Monday morning, and trainer Bob Baffert did a group interview and then a number of live hits for various morning shows, and deftly deflected any questions regarding specifics on Justify’s next start.

Voodoo Song, who won four races at Saratoga last summer, is headed back to the Spa for this year’s meet. How often he runs could depend on how ambitious his connections get.

Voodoo Song won Saturday’s $150,000 Forbidden Apple Stakes at Belmont by one length over Projected. He ran a mile in 1:31.67 and earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 102.

On Monday, trainer Linda Rice said the options for Voodoo Song could include the $100,000 Lure Stakes on Aug. 4 as a prep for the $150,000 West Point for New York breds on Aug. 24.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With Mother Nature forcing the postponement of turf workouts at Belmont Park from Sunday to Monday, trainers had to call an audible in preparing their horses for upcoming stakes.

Chad Brown had to move 10 works from Sunday to Monday, including by the Grade 1-winning duo of A Raving Beauty and Sistercharlie, who will head the field for Saturday’s Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga. Brown is expected to enter three in the Diana when entries for Saturday’s card are taken Wednesday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – While Queen’s Plate winner Wonder Gadot is bound for the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, trainer Mark Casse has different plans for his two other starters exiting the June 30 race at Woodbine. Telekinesis and Neepawa were both forwardly placed in the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown before tiring late to finish fifth and 10th.

Gunnevera continues to thrive on the comeback trail and had his most recent workout Saturday, breezing a bullet five furlongs in a minute over a fast surface at Gulfstream Park West.

Trainer Antonio Sano told Gulfstream Park publicity he hopes to find a suitable race for the 4-year-old colt early next month at Gulfstream as a prep for the Grade 1 Woodward on Sept. 1 at Saratoga. The Saturday breeze was the fourth for Gunnevera since he returned to training after having about 60 days off the track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A small field could be headed to Fort Erie for the 83rd running of the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on July 24, with five to eight runners likely to face off for the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown over 1 3/16-miles on dirt.

Nominations closed last Tuesday with six horses remaining eligible, pending any supplemental entries. The nominations included the top four finishers from the $1 million Queen’s Plate at Woodbine on June 30: Wonder Gadot, Aheadbyacentury, Cooler Mike, and Strike Me Down.

DEL MAR, Calif. – With champion Unique Bella and what appears to be a bumper crop of 2-year-olds, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer comes into this meet at Del Mar looking as though he’s loaded for one of his best summer seasons ever. But he’s ever wary.

“There’s lots of folks that have potential before the first day,” he said with a smile while watching his horses train here Sunday morning.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Even as more and more horses have been gathered up by fewer trainers nationwide, the Del Mar Debutante has remained egalitarian, with 11 different trainers having won it over the past 11 runnings. The Del Mar Futurity has been taken down by four different trainers in the past five years, the lone double coming for Bob Baffert, who has won that race a record 13 times since 1996.

For the last three weeks, Flavien Prat has ridden primarily at Belmont Park, taking fewer mounts than he typically would have in the same span in Southern California.

But that may have been the last quiet period for Prat this year – on or off the track.

Trainers Vladimir Cerin and Matt Chew have been fined after each had a runner at Santa Anita in the spring test positive for two non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, according to recent rulings published by the Los Alamitos stewards.

Horses are allowed to be treated with one such medication at a time, according to California Horse Racing Board regulations.

Cerin was fined $1,000 after Roman Tizzy, who finished third in the first race on April 13, showed the presence of the analgesics bute and flunixin, also known as Banamine.