Sharp Azteca, who had been pointed to the Grade 3, $400,000 Super Derby on Saturday at Louisiana Downs, will miss the race, trainer Jorge Navarro said Monday. Navarro said Sharp Azteca sustained a physical setback Saturday morning at Monmouth Park.

“He was training good, reared up coming off the track, and grabbed his quarter,” Navarro said. “We’re going to give him some time. He’s going to have some rest, and we’ll look for something else sometime next month. The main thing is to let him heal.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Tepin, the champion female turf horse of 2015, continued her strong preparation for the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile with a five-furlong move in 1:00.11 over the Oklahoma turf course on Monday.

Tepin, under Florent Geroux, worked in company with the 2-year-old maiden Enstone, who began the breeze two lengths in front. Tepin tracked Enstone through splits of 12.96 seconds, 24.79, and 36.94. It wasn’t until inside the last sixteenth that Tepin accelerated past Enstone, who rejoined Tepin on the gallop-out.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Gun Runner, third to Arrogate in the Travers Stakes, worked four furlongs in 50.56 seconds on Monday over an Oklahoma training track that was moments away from being enveloped in fog.

Gun Runner went his opening quarter in 25.35 seconds and his second quarter in 25.21 as he prepares for the Grade 2, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 24.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Brothers Jose and Irad Ortiz Jr. finished first and second in the Saratoga jockey standings, winning a combined 118 races through Sunday.

They will begin the Belmont fall meet on the sidelines, as both are serving suspensions incurred at Saratoga for careless-riding incidents.

Jose, who won his first Saratoga riding title, will miss the first three days of the Belmont meet for his ride aboard Paz the Wine, who finished fourth in the third race on Aug. 25. Paz the Wine bumped with Lem Me Dance, who won the race.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Coming off his first Saratoga training title, Chad Brown will look to get started on his fifth consecutive Belmont Park fall-meet title when he runs Ava’s Kitten in Friday’s $100,000 Christiecat Stakes.

The Christiecat, for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs on turf, is the first of 42 stakes to be run during the 38-day Belmont fall stand, which runs from Friday through Oct. 30.

CYPRESS, Calif. – Enola Gray zoomed through a five-furlong workout in 59.20 seconds at Los Alamitos on Monday, indicating to trainer Phil D’Amato that she has recovered from an illness that prevented her from starting at Del Mar in August.

D’Amato timed Enola Gray in 58.80 seconds for the workout under jockey Tyler Baze. He said she is on schedule for Saturday’s $75,000 Beverly Lewis Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs at Los Alamitos.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Avenge, who won the Grade 2 John C. Mabee Stakes for female grass runners on Sunday, and Sobradora Inc, who finished in a dead heat for fifth as the favorite in the race after encountering traffic trouble, could meet again in the Grade 1, $300,000 Rodeo Drive Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1, their trainers said Monday.

Avenge won at a mile early in the meet and stretched out to 1 1/8 miles in the Mabee. The Rodeo Drive is at 1 1/4 miles.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Dortmund and Hoppertunity, who finished third and fourth behind California Chrome in the Pacific Classic in their last start, worked five furlongs in company Monday at Del Mar in preparation for races either at Santa Anita or Belmont Park.

“They’re nominated everywhere,” said their trainer, Bob Baffert, who has said Dortmund could again face California Chrome in the Grade 1, $300,000 Awesome Again at Santa Anita on Oct. 1, while Hoppertunity is under serious consideration for the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park on Oct. 8.

DEL MAR, Calif. – On Labor Day morning, it was back to work for Songbird, the unbeaten champion filly, who turned in another flawless workout at Del Mar as she stays on track for the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion for 3-year-old fillies at Parx on Sept. 24.

Songbird bookended the summer training at Del Mar. But in between, she spent a month at Saratoga, where she won the Coaching Club American Oaks and Alabama to up her record to 10-0 and solidify her chances of repeating as a divisional champion after earning the Eclipse Award as champion 2-year-old filly last year.

CYPRESS, Calif. - Apprentice jockey Chad Lindsay will have a new agent with the start of the Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Los Alamitos on Thursday.

Lindsay recently hired Ron Ebanks to book his mounts. Ebanks is also the agent for Santiago Gonzalez, one of the circuit’s leading riders. Lindsay was previously represented by Vince DeGregory.

Through Sunday, Lindsay, 22, had six wins from 93 mounts at the Del Mar summer meeting. He had 34 career wins.

“He’s got a few months left with the bug and he wants to utilize it,” Ebanks said.