SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Only three horses were entered in Sunday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Shuvee Handicap at Saratoga. One mare conspicuous by her absence was Forever Unbridled, the multiple Grade 1-winning mare who is sitting this one out to await the Grade 1 Personal Ensign here on Aug. 26.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – World Approval is a four-time graded stakes winner going a route of ground, but for his next trick, the 5-year-old gray will attempt to win a Grade 1 stakes going a mile. World Approval is being pointed to the $500,000 Fourstardave at Saratoga on Aug. 12 in what will be his first race at one mile since November 2014, when he ran third in a maiden race on the dirt at Aqueduct.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Add Tom’s d’Etat to the list of potential contenders for the Grade 1 Woodward on Sept. 2 following his nine-length allowance win over a “good” track on Thursday. The victory was the fourth in the last five starts for the steadily improving son of Smart Strike, and it earned him a career-best 106 Beyer Speed Figure.

The Oaklawn Racing Club has been formed to give fans an opportunity at Thoroughbred ownership, the Hot Springs, Ark., track announced Friday. There will be up to 200 shares available at $500 each in a horse that will be purchased privately and trained by Ron Moquett.

The plan is to purchase an unraced 2-year-old who would launch his career this fall, then be based this winter and spring at Oaklawn, which opens Jan. 12.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Many people will argue that Mind Your Biscuits is the fastest horse in the world. In fact, he’s so fast that he even makes the work tab when he’s just galloping.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Kyle Frey, the champion apprentice jockey of 2011, will be sidelined until the fall after undergoing surgery last Tuesday to remove a rod and screws that had caused infection to a leg, according to his agent, Mark North.

Frey, who last rode at Del Mar on July 23, complained of pain, and an MRI revealed the infection.

“When they did the MRI, where the screws were, there was infection all around there,” North said on Friday. “They removed the rod and cleaned up an abscess.”

Frey underwent leg surgery in 2012 following a spill in Pennsylvania.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The two-time stakes winner S Y Sky is out until the winter with an undisclosed injury.

S Y Sky was recently sent from Del Mar to owner and breeder Nick Alexander’s farm in central California, trainer Phil D’Amato said. D’Amato said S Y Sky had developed “a little issue” that will keep her out of training until the Santa Anita winter meeting.

“She needs a little R and R,” he said.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Klimt, second in the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby on July 15 in his first race of the year, is scheduled to start in the Grade 1 Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes for 3-year-olds at seven furlongs at Saratoga on Aug. 26, trainer Art Sherman said this week.

The $500,000 Jerkens Memorial is run in honor of the late Hall of Fame trainer and was previously known as the King’s Bishop Stakes.

Sherman said the time between the Los Alamitos Derby and the Jerkens Memorial appealed to him.

Charles Town Races in West Virginia will debut a jackpot pick six bet with a 12 percent takeout on its Aug. 17 card, the track announced on Thursday.

The daily wager, which is being called the Charles Town 6-12, will pay out 75 percent of its pool to those that have selected the most winners in the sequence, while reserving 25 percent of the pool for a progressive jackpot that will be distributed only in the event of a single ticket having all six winners. The progressive jackpot concept has been adopted by a number of racetracks over the past several years.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Weekend Hideaway, the 7-2 morning-line favorite, was scratched from Thursday’s $100,000 John Morrissey Stakes due to an injury to his left front foot, trainer Phil Serpe said.

Serpe said Weekend Hideaway had stepped on his own foot earlier this week. Serpe and his staff worked on the foot and thought they had it in good enough shape to run. But on Thursday morning, there was some heat in the foot, and Serpe had to treat the horse with antibiotics.