ARCADIA, Calif.- Trainer Keith Desormeaux had a quick summary of his 2016 season after he left the winner’s circle following Dalmore’s win in the $100,000 Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita on Saturday.

“It’s been an amazing year,” Desormeaux said.

This year, Desormeaux has won two seven-figure races, and his first classic, with Exaggerator, who won the $1,000,690 Santa Anita Derby in April and the $1.5 million Preakness Stakes on May 21.

ARCADIA, Calif.- Illuminant, the winner of the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Santa Anita on May 30, is likely to make her next start in the $700,000 Beverly D. Stakes at Arlington Park on Aug. 13.

Aron Wellman, the president of the Eclipse Thoroughbred partnership that owns Illuminant, said on Sunday that the Grade 1 Beverly D. is preferred over the $200,000 Yellow Ribbon Stakes at Del Mar on July 16.

“That’s the direction we’re pointing to,” he said. “We’ve ruled out the Yellow Ribbon at this point. The Beverly D. seems like the right thing.”

ELMONT, N.Y. - Nearly a year to the day she last stepped on the inner turf course at Belmont Park, Lady Eli was back on that surface again Sunday morning for a half-mile workout she completed in 52.20 seconds.

Working by herself under exercise rider Walter Melasquez, Lady Eli went her first quarter-mile in 26.62 seconds and her second quarter in 25.58 in what basically amounted to a leg-stretching exercise.  The work was done around a triple set of orange cones that kept all workers off the part of the course utilized for racing.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Led by stakes winners Economic Model and Destin, a bevy of New York-based 3-year-olds put in workouts Saturday at Belmont Park as they gear up for the second half of the season.

CYPRESS, Calif. – California Chrome, preparing for his first start since winning the Dubai World Cup three months ago, worked seven furlongs on Saturday at Los Alamitos in 1:26.40, after which trainer Art Sherman said he “wanted a little stronger work.”

Sherman said the track was a little slower than it had been in recent days, and head clocker Russ Hudak confirmed that, but Sherman still seemed as though he expected more from California Chrome, who, per usual, worked at 5:30 a.m. with exercise rider Dihigi Gladney aboard.

This article was updated at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 2, 2016

The New York Racing Association placing judges posted an incorrect fourth-place finisher in the eighth race at Belmont Park on Friday.

Akatea (No. 1, $3.40) won race 8. There was a dead heat for second between Now Power (4) and Jc's Shooting Star (5). The correct fourth-place finisher, according to Martin Panza, senior vice president of racing operations at NYRA, was Coming Attraction (2), but the race was made official with Paige (3) incorrectly posted in his place.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Little Mike worked four furlongs in 49.60 seconds over the main track at Palm Meadows on Friday with jockey Elvis Trujillo aboard as he gets ever closer to launching his comeback. Little Mike, 9, has not started since winning the Flying Pidgeon overnight stakes here with Trujillo aboard in May 2014.

The winner of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Turf, he has had a series of stamina-enhancing works – four breezes at a mile – over the main track at Palm Meadows since May 14.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The quest to get some black type for the well-bred Lady Serena returns to Gulfstream Park on Sunday when she faces seven rivals in the $75,000 Barely Even Stakes for fillies and mares going a mile on the main track.

Lady Serena, by Bernardini, is a three-quarter sister to the multiple Grade 1 winner Honor Code. She began her career with trainer Chad Brown before being transferred to Joe Sharp this summer.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Since turf racing ceased here on June 19, field sizes have fallen sharply.

For the five racing days from June 23 through Thursday, fields averaged 6.71 runners. For the entire spring-summer meeting, which began May 5, fields have averaged 7.44 runners. The corresponding meeting in 2015 had an average field size of 7.84 runners. The winter-spring meeting, which ran from late December to early April, averaged 8.1 runners per race.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Arrogate, the winner of an allowance race at Santa Anita on June 24, is a candidate for the $1.25 million Travers Stakes for 3-year-olds at Saratoga on Aug. 27. Where the highly promising colt has a prep race remains to be seen.

On Friday, trainer Bob Baffert said he has not decided on Arrogate’s next start. Options include the $500,000 Indiana Derby at Indiana Grand on July 16 or the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 31.

“I’ll let him dictate,” Baffert said. “I think the Travers will be ideal. He’ll love the mile and a quarter.”