SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Through 19 days of the 40-day Saratoga meet, business is basically flat compared to last year.

According to figures provided by the New York Racing Association, all-sources handle was $380,201,041, a 0.1 percent decrease from last year’s figure of $380,474,297.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Preakness winner Seize the Grey worked five furlongs in 59.64 seconds Monday morning over the Oklahoma training track, his first work back since his disappointing fourth-place finish in the Jim Dandy here July 27.

Track clockers caught Seize the Grey in splits of 11.81, 23.47, 35.22, 59.64, and caught him galloping out six furlongs in 1:13.90.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When the Lure Stakes was moved from turf to the dirt last Saturday, trainer Cherie DeVaux was forced to call an audible with her multiple stakes winner More Than Looks, who was supplemented into Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Fourstardave Handicap.

“He’s already up here. It’s not ideal to run him back in a Grade 1, but he’s doing well, he’s got to run,” DeVaux said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Grade 1 Saratoga Derby could be impacted by weather again. But it may be the weather in Virgina that has a bigger impact on the race compared with the weather in upstate New York.

Three horses who were entered in Saturday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Secretariat Stakes at Colonial Downs were cross-entered on Sunday for Saturday’s rescheduled Saratoga Derby. The Saratoga Derby, as well as the Grade 2 Troy Stakes, were canceled last Saturday at Saratoga due to a high moisture content in the turf courses following Friday night rain.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Lammas, winner of a pair of one-mile stakes on turf and dirt in Northern California in his last two starts, is bound for Del Mar later this month.

Trainer Manny Badilla said on Sunday that Lammas will be pointed for the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile on turf Aug. 31 and not the $150,000 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs in Washington State on Sunday.

“It will be a test,” Badilla said of the $200,000 Del Mar Mile. “I’m not going to Seattle.”

The only mishap involving Turnerloose’s win in the Luther Burbank Stakes at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa last Saturday fortunately happened several minutes after the 5-year-old mare had ended a 14-race losing streak.

As owner Bing Bush gathered with his family, friends, and co-owners, the glass engraved portion of the trophy fell from its base.

“It wasn’t broken,” Bush said with a laugh Sunday. “It was so close.”

Turnerloose races for Bush’s Abbondanza Racing, Medallion Racing, and Ike and Dawn Thrash.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The Del Mar summer meeting came alive for trainer Peter Eurton on Sunday in the seconds Stay Hot needed to close from last to first in the La Jolla Handicap on turf.

Stay Hot was Eurton’s first winner with his 20th starter of the season, which began July 20.

“Considering the way the first two weeks have gone, that was a nice day, especially with him,” Eurton said Monday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Ottoman Fleet, who has won a pair of graded stakes at Churchill Downs this spring for Godolphin Racing, may join or substitute for Master of The Seas in the Grade 1 Fourstardave here on Aug. 10, trainer Charlie Appleby said Friday.

“He’s in such great form, he deserves to have a step up into Grade 1 company,” Appleby said Friday after watching eight of his charges put in workouts over the Oklahoma turf course.