Del Mar’s grass course was open for workouts for the first time this summer on Monday, and 20 horses drilled on it. Among them was the unbeaten Sircat Sally, who likely will head the field for the Grade 2, $200,000 San Clemente Handicap for 3-year-old fillies on Sunday.

Sircat Sally went six furlongs in 1:16.80 around orange cones, known as dogs, while working evenly with her Jerry Hollendorfer-trained stablemate He Will. Sircat Sally has been assigned the top weight of 125 pounds for the San Clemente.

DEL MAR, Calif. – A horse who runs 100 times may recall the days of Exterminator, but that milestone will be reached Thursday at Del Mar by the durable and popular 10-year-old claimer Royal F J, who will race for the 100th time.

It’s a point of pride for his trainer and co-owner, Jack Carava.

“I’ve had a couple of horses who ran over 100 times, but not ones I’ve had for almost their whole career and certainly not in recent years,” Carava said Monday at Del Mar. “We’ve had a lot of fun with him.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A year ago, trainer Gary Contessa sent out Turco Bravo to win the 1 3/4-mile Birdstone Stakes. He’s confident he can duplicate that feat Aug. 3 with another long-winded Chilean-bred, the multiple graded stakes-placed Tu Brutus.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Aldous Snow, who won the Grade 3 Singspiel Stakes for the third time in four years at Woodbine on July 2 for trainer Malcolm Pierce and owner and breeder Sam-Son Farm, will now point to the $125,000 Halton Stakes on Aug. 30.

The Halton Stakes is run over 1 1/2 miles on turf on Canadian Millions Sales Stakes Day. Pierce, however, didn’t rule out a start for the 8-year-old gelding in the Grade 2, $175,000 Nijinsky Stakes over 1 1/4 miles on turf July 29.

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.