ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Nominations for the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown, the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, closed July 11. Seven were nominated for the 1 3/16-mile dirt race at Fort Erie next Tuesday, including five runners from the $1 million Queen’s Plate at Woodbine on July 2.

Queen’s Plate winner Holy Helena was nominated to the Prince of Wales, but Stronach Stables racing manager Mike Doyle said she is still on target to make her next start in the Grade 1, $600,000 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 19.

CYPRESS, Calif. - West Coast has earned his position at the top of trainer Bob Baffert’s 3-year-old division this summer.

Consecutive stakes wins at Belmont Park and Los Alamitos in recent weeks have left Baffert hopeful West Coast can play a greater role when the colt has his Grade 1 debut in the $1.25 million Travers Stakes at 1 1/4 miles at Saratoga on Aug. 26.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming and Gun Runner, the likely favorite for the Grade 1 Whitney, topped Sunday’s work tab at Saratoga where activity continues to increase daily over both the main and Oklahoma training tracks in anticipation of Friday's opening.

Working solo after the renovation break, Always Dreaming breezed five furlongs in 1:01.16, completing his final quarter-mile in 24.35, going easily to the wire, before galloping out six panels in 1:14.62.  The work was the first for Always Dreaming since he arrived here earlier last week.

Arrogate and Abel Tasman worked quickly at Santa Anita on Saturday and are set to start as massive favorites in major stakes on both sides of the country on July 22.

Arrogate, the world’s top-rated horse, worked six furlongs in 1:11 in company with Cat Burglar. The 4-year-old Arrogate is the star attraction in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar next Saturday, which will be his first start since winning the $10 million Dubai World Cup in March.

Trainer Bob Baffert timed Arrogate in “1:24 and change” for seven furlongs.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Eternal Vow finished eighth in Friday’s second race at Belmont Park, and now trainer Mike Hushion has one last race to run before he retires.

Hushion has the entry of Jupiter Rising and Voodoo Song in Sunday’s sixth race at Belmont, though Voodoo Song is three deep on the also-eligible list for the first-level New York-bred turf race.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The deepest barn on the East Coast – if not the country – just got a little deeper. Trainer Chad Brown now has Grade 1 winner Carina Mia and the Grade 2 stakes-placed 3-year-old filly Jamyson ‘n Ginger in his barn.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The Pizza Man will make his next start in the Arlington Million, according to owner Rich Papiese of Midwest Thoroughbreds.

The Pizza Man, 7, has raced in the Million the past two years, winning in 2015 and finishing sixth, beaten just 1 1/2 lengths, last summer. In 2014, he won the $400,000 American St. Leger on the Million card.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – At 29, Blake Shinn is an established Australian jockey. Australian, not American. Shinn finishes a five-week stint at Arlington on Saturday, and during his brief stay in America, he has worked on becoming an American kind of rider.

“I think the biggest difference for me is the style change that I’ve had to sort of adapt a little bit to,” Shinn said Thursday. “That’s something that I’ve had to work very hard with because the American trainers, I suppose, aren’t really that accepting to the European style of riding.”

Trainer Mark Casse summed up the 7-year-old Spring Up in just four words: “He likes to win!”

Spring Up won for the 10th time in 23 career starts, and the fourth time in five outings since joining Casse’s stable last summer, at Gulfstream Park last Sunday. He rallied to a three-quarter-length victory in the oddly run Mecke Handicap, in which Diamond Bachelor opened up a lead of more than a dozen lengths down the backstretch. Diamond Bachelor was overtaken by Spring Up, who attended the pace from the outset, at midstretch of the nine-furlong overnight stakes for older horses.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Battle of Midway and American Anthem, two of the best 3-year-olds based on the West Coast, both will be taking their acts on the road in the coming weeks, with Battle of Midway headed to the Haskell at Monmouth on July 30 and American Anthem going to the Allen Jerkens, formerly the King’s Bishop, at Saratoga on Aug. 26.

Both will decamp for summer training at Del Mar, but before heading south, they each turned in workouts on a warm Friday morning at Santa Anita.