DEL MAR, Calif. – Hector Berrios will replace Mike Smith on Express Train in the Grade 1 Pacific Classic at 1 1/4 miles on Aug. 31 at Del Mar, trainer John Shirreffs said Sunday.

Berrios, who through Sunday was fourth in the jockey standings with 15 wins, will ride Express Train in a race for the first time. Berrios, 37, has been aboard Express Train for his last two workouts, Shirreffs said, the most recent of which was six furlongs in 1:13 last Friday at Del Mar.

Berrios has had 19 mounts for Shirreffs in his career through Sunday, winning three times.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Based on a recent partial sale, the unbeaten 3-year-old filly Iscreamuscream was worth $990,000 on Saturday morning. By Saturday evening, the figure had soared considerably.

Already a stakes winner at Del Mar in July, Iscreamuscream extended her streak to four races with a comprehensive win in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Saturday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Illuminare, the 3-year-old son of City of Light who won his first two starts, missed some training time due to a foot injury and was not entered Monday for Saturday’s $200,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Parx Racing, trainer Todd Pletcher said.

Illuminare won a first-level allowance here July 13 by 4 3/4 lengths. He did not work again until Saturday, when he went a half-mile in 50 seconds.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As trainer Chad Brown runs four of his stakes-caliber older turf fillies and mares in Thursday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Ballston Spa Stakes, he is pointing two Grade 1 winners of 2024 to the Grade 1 First Lady on Oct. 5 at Keeneland.

Chili Flag, who has three stakes win this year including the Grade 1 Just a Game, has been off the work tab since Aug. 2 owing to a temperature, Brown said.

Whitebeam, who won the Grade 1 Diana for the second consecutive year in July, has worked three times since that victory.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As the connections of Gulfport await a final resolution in the courts regarding the 2022 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga that could eventually make him a Grade 1 winner, they are running him in allowance spots for which he officially remains eligible while hoping to return to stakes company.

Following a victory in a second-level allowance at Churchill Downs on June 30, Gulfport now steps into a third-level allowance/ $80,000 optional claimer that goes as Thursday’s eighth race at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The powerful Godolphin-Charlie Appleby team is likely to send out both Measured Time and Silver Knott, recent stakes winners at Saratoga, in the Grade 1, $750,000 Sword Dancer Stakes on Aug. 24.

On Friday, the pair each put in a workout over the Oklahoma turf course. Measured Time, winner of the Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes on June 8, went a half-mile in 50.29 seconds, according to Daily Racing Form, outfinishing workmate Bold Act while getting his final quarter in 24.07 seconds.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With only three starts under his belt, Unmatched Wisdom will be the least experienced runner of the eight 3-year-olds expected to be entered Sunday in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Travers Stakes to be run here on Aug. 24.

But with a perfect 3-for-3 record and the services of leading rider Irad Ortiz Jr. for the first time, he could be one of the more intriguing runners in the field.