SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Bill Mott, who holds the record for most Breeders' Cup Distaff wins by a trainer with five, looks to have another contender in Elate, who will be aimed at this year’s $2 million Distaff at Del Mar following her dominant 5 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga.

While Mott said Sunday he hasn’t specifically discussed the Distaff with Claiborne Farms and Adele Dilschneider, Elate's owners and breeders, he admitted “I was thinking about it this morning, wondering what the schedule might be.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Both Collected and Arrogate came out of the Pacific Classic in good order and will be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4, and while it was certain before Saturday that Arrogate would not have a prep, trainer Bob Baffert on Sunday said he might entertain the same strategy with Collected, too.

“I could train him up to the race,” Baffert said. “I haven’t decided.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – While Chad Brown said he is leaning toward running Cloud Computing in next Saturday’s Travers Stakes, the trainer stopped short of committing the Preakness winner to the Grade 1, $1.25 million race at Saratoga.

Brown was pleased with Cloud Computing’s five-furlong move in 1:01.76 over the Saratoga main track Saturday morning, but the colt’s last-place finish in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes here on July 28 still weighs heavily on his mind.

Skye Diamonds, the dominant female sprinter in California this year, will not race again until Nov. 4 at Del Mar in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint, a race in which she figures to be a leading candidate.

Skye Diamonds won the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos in July and the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap on Aug. 13 at Del Mar. Trainer Bill Spawr said earlier this week that he would prefer to give Skye Diamonds a lengthy break between starts as opposed to adding a race at Santa Anita in October.

DEL MAR, Calif. – There were milestones for trainers Andrew Lerner, Mark Tsalagalakis, and Reed Saldana during Thursday’s program at Del Mar.

They all won for the first time at the track.

For Lerner, Be a Lady’s win in the first race was his first career win six months after he began training. Tsagalakis, who has a very small number of horses in training, won the third race with Arch of Troy. He first began training in the 1980s.

DEL MAR, Calif. – St. Patrick’s Day will be the center of attention in a maiden race for 2-year-olds Sunday at Del Mar. Having an older brother named American Pharoah tends to leave a colt firmly in the spotlight.

Owned by Susan Magnier and trained by Bob Baffert, who guided American Pharoah to the 2015 Triple Crown, St. Patrick’s Day has worked well for his debut in the ninth race, run at six furlongs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Seven weeks ago, Phi Beta Express was still a maiden, having lost the first three starts of his career, including a runner-up finish for maiden $50,000 claiming at Fair Grounds in January.

But after posting two wins in 20 days, Phi Beta Express will now step into Grade 1 company in next Saturday’s $500,000 Allen Jerkens Memorial (formerly the King’s Bishop) on the Travers card at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Following a lackluster work over the main track here one week prior, trainer Chad Summers needed to see more from Mind Your Biscuits before confirming him as a starter in next Saturday’s Grade 1 Forego. And that’s exactly what he got over the Oklahoma training track shortly after dawn Friday.

With regular rider Joel Rosario aboard, Mind Your Biscuits worked four furlongs in driving rain in 49.70 seconds, completing his final quarter in 24.20 before galloping out in 1:02.80 and pulling up three-quarters in 1:15.60, according to Daily Racing Form.

Maryland horsewoman Elizabeth Houghton, better known as Binnie, died of respiratory problems Aug. 7 at her Buckingham Farm, which overlooks the Chester River on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in Kent County.

She will be represented by the 3-year-old filly Crabcakes in the $75,000 Miss Disco Stakes at Laurel Park on Saturday. Crabcakes, winner of the Maryland Juvenile Filly Championship in December, has finished second in the Alma North, Austintown Filly Sprint, and Wide Country stakes this year. Crabcakes is trained by Houghton’s nephew, T. Bernard Houghton.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – After watching Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming and Curlin Stakes winner Outplay put in solid workouts Friday at Saratoga, trainer Todd Pletcher said both horses are prepared to run in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes on Aug. 26 if their owners so choose.

Vinnie Viola, who along with his wife, Teresa, heads the group that owns Always Dreaming, said “We so choose.”