SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Classic Empire, last year’s champion 2-year-old male whose 3-year-old season has been interrupted by infirmity and immaturity, will not run in the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 23, trainer Mark Casse said on Monday.

Casse said he is still not totally satisfied with how Classic Empire is training at Winding Oaks Farm in Ocala, Fla., adding that inclement weather there has interrupted his training schedule. Casse said Classic Empire will remain in training but is not pointing to any particular race.

Trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday that he will wait to see how Drefong trains following his victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga before deciding whether to train him up to the Breeders’ Cup Sprint or run him once more beforehand.

Last year, Drefong won the King’s Bishop on Aug. 27 at Saratoga and didn’t run until the BC Sprint, a race he won as part of a 4-for-4 campaign that culminated with an Eclipse Award as champion sprinter.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Lady Eli and Practical Joke, both winners of graded stakes on Saturday at Saratoga for Chad Brown, may simply train up to their respective Breeders’ Cup races, the trainer said Sunday morning.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - West Coast’s dominant 3 1/4-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes only further muddied an already jumbled 3-year-old picture, with fall plans unclear for him and many of his vanquished.

West Coast was due to return to California on Monday. Later this week trainer Bob Baffert and owner Gary West will meet to discuss what might be next for West Coast, who went gate to wire under Mike Smith in the Travers for his fourth consecutive victory.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Maria Falgione’s bucket list has one less item.

The 38-year-old apprentice jockey won with her first career mount at Del Mar on Saturday when Tee Em Eye ($13.60) closed from off the pace in a $16,000 claimer for sprinters. After an awkward start, Tee Em Eye rallied five-wide on the turn to take the lead in the final furlong.

“It’s the most incredible thing that’s happened to me,” Falgione said an hour after the win.

Falgione is a full-time exercise rider for Mike Machowsky, who trains Tee Em Eye.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Stellar Wind, the winner of consecutive Grade 1 races for fillies and mares in California in recent months, may not start again until the Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Del Mar on Nov. 3.

Trainer John Sadler said over the weekend that Stellar Wind could benefit from a break of three months between her latest start, a win in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes on July 30, and the BC Distaff.

“Stellar Wind could train into the Breeders’ Cup,” Sadler said. “She runs so well fresh. I’m not 100 percent sure what we’ll do.”

DEL MAR, Calif. - Giant Expectations has come a long ways in one year.

At this time last year, Giant Expectations was fighting a lung infection that forced him out of training. He was a maiden with an uncertain future.

“We fooled around trying to get it under control,” trainer Peter Eurton recalled Sunday. “We weren’t getting anywhere. We probably wasted two months.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - By the Moon turned a rare double Saturday at Saratoga by winning the Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina. She is now a Grade 1 winner at ages 2 and 5.

Trained throughout her career by Michelle Nevin, By the Moon was precocious enough to win the Grade 1 Frizette in fall 2014 at Belmont Park. She came close to winning Grade 1 races as a 3-year-old and as a 4-year-old, but was denied both times.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Given her propensity to run well fresh, Forever Unbridled will most likely train up to the Breeders’ Cup, her connections said Sunday morning, the day after their horse beat Songbird in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga.

In which Breeders’ Cup race Forever Unbridled will run remains to be decided.

Owner Charles Fipke said Sunday he would consider running Forever Unbridled against males in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Del Mar on Nov. 4.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Sadler's Joy used an eye-catching burst of speed to make up for an awful start in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer at Saratoga on Saturday, running by all six of his rivals in the final furlong of the 1 1/2-mile turf race to win by a half-length under Julien Leparoux.

The victory was the first in a Grade 1 for owners Rene and Lauren Woolcott, who race as Woodslane Farm. Sadler's Joy is the second Grade 1 winner bred by the Woolcotts. They had previously bred four-time Grade 1 winner Tonalist, a winner of $3.6 million.