Highway Star, the New York-bred filly who won her third graded stakes of her career in Saturday’s Grade 2 Ruffian Stakes at Belmont, could make her next start in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps at Belmont on June 10.

Highway Star is also eligible for the $200,000 Critical Eye Stakes for New York-breds on May 29, but that would mean running back in 16 days and it’s a race that wouldn’t do much for her potential value as a broodmare.

Highway Star is 4 for 4 at Belmont Park, all in one-turn races from seven furlongs to a mile. The Phipps is run around one turn at 1 1/16 miles.

Timeline, who remained undefeated from three starts with a 3 1/2-length victory in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan, has the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 30 as his main summer target, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday morning.

Brown reiterated Sunday what he said right after the race Saturday: that Timeline does not strike him as a horse who wants to run 1 1/2 miles, the distance of the Belmont Stakes. Brown said he would likely use the Grade 3, $100,000 Pegasus on June 18 at Monmouth as a prep for the Haskell.

Zhukova, the filly who dominated the boys by six lengths in Saturday’s Grade 1 Man o’ War at Belmont, is due to fly back to Ireland on Thursday. However, her connections are intending a return trip to the U.S. in the fall and the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.

Mark Weld, the assistant to his father, Dermot, trainer of Zhukova, said the filly “deserves a shot” at the Breeders’ Cup, which will be held this year at Del Mar.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Lady Eli, the popular multiple Grade 1-winning turf mare, will likely make her next start in the Grade 1, $300,000 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita on May 27, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday morning.

Brown said the likelihood of catching firm ground and the 1 1/8-mile distance of the race are the reasons why he’s interested in shipping her west. He also likes the spacing between that race and the Grade 1 Diana, scheduled for July 22 at Saratoga.

“She’s not definite, but she’s likely to go to the Gamely,” Brown said.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Arms Runner became the latest turf sprint stakes winner for trainer Peter Miller with a win in Saturday’s $79,190 Desert Code Stakes for 3-year-olds on the hillside turf course at Santa Anita.

Miller has a longterm plan to develop Arms Runner into a graded stakes winner around two turns by the end of the summer. The Del Mar summer meeting has a stakes schedule that emphasizes turf races for 3-year-olds, ending with the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 3. The first stakes for the division is the $100,000 Oceanside Stakes at a mile on July 19, opening day.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Kentucky Oaks winner Abel Tasman is a candidate for the Grade 1 Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park on June 10, trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday.

Abel Tasman resumed racetrack training at Santa Anita over the weekend following her upset win in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 5. Baffert said a decision on whether Abel Tasman is sent to New York will be made closer to the race.

Lexington Stakes winner Senior Investment worked five furlongs in 1:02 at Keeneland on Sunday morning in his final serious pre-Preakness move. The colt hit the wire well in front of older stablemate Some in Tieme - a Group 1 winner in his native Brazil, and a close second in a Keeneland allowance last out - and continued to move away while galloping out six furlongs in 1:14.
Channing Hill, who rode Senior Investment to win the Lexington on April 15, was aboard for the work. The Ken McPeek trainee was sixth in the Louisiana Derby in his prior start.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Before Mother Nature poured buckets of water on Long Island on Saturday morning, trainer Chad Brown was able to get in Cloud Computing’s last major workout before next Saturday’s 142nd Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

Texas Chrome ran one of the best races of his career in defeat last weekend at Lone Star Park, finishing second to Mor Spirit in the Grade 3, $200,000 Steve Sexton Mile. He stalked the pace and rallied to finish 5 3/4 lengths behind the Grade 1 winner, who earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 107. Texas Chrome earned a 98 Beyer.

“He got a great trip, and I thought we had a shot at the head of the lane,” said J.R. Caldwell, who trains Texas Chrome for Keene Thoroughbreds. “He ran great. He ran his best lifetime number.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Stellar Wind, the winner of the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap last month in her first start of 2017, worked five furlongs in 1:00.40 on Friday in preparation for what could be a red-hot running of the Grade 1 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita on June 3.

Stellar Wind worked in company with stablemate Pappou, who was timed in 1:00.80.

“She broke off two lengths behind her company and kind of breezed past,” trainer John Sadler said. “It was very, very smooth. We’re right on target.”