ELMONT, N.Y. – There will be five graded stakes run at Belmont Park on Saturday, and it’s not far-fetched to think trainer Todd Pletcher could have the first or second choice in all of them.

Already well armed with Rock Fall in the Grade 1, $400,000 Vosburgh and Curalina in the Grade 1, $400,000 Beldame, Pletcher has decided to run Red Rifle in the Grade 1, $600,000 Joe Hirsch and Dame Dorothy in the Grade 2, $300,000 Gallant Bloom. Pletcher will run Azar and possibly Dissident in the Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The biggest day of the Santa Anita fall meeting will be the first day. On Saturday, five Grade 1 stakes, all worth $300,000 and all of them Win and You’re In races toward the Breeders’ Cup, will be run on an 11-race, opening-day card. In advance of that blockbuster card, a number of top-class horses had their final works Monday, including the circuit’s top 2-year-old filly, Songbird, who is set for the Chandelier Stakes, which will mark her first try around two turns.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Pomodoro, a 2-year-old Godolphin Racing homebred filly by Medaglia d’Oro, was euthanized Sunday evening after breaking down in her right foreleg in the eighth race at Churchill. Jockey Florent Geroux was not injured, nor were any other horses or jockeys.

Chief steward Barbara Borden said veterinary staff tried to save the filly’s life, but the injury was too severe. Pomodoro was making her third career start when Geroux pulled her up entering the first turn of the 1 1/16-mile maiden race on the turf.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Hall of Fame trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Monday from California that he was thrilled with the 1 3/4-length victory by Super Majesty in the Grade 3 Dogwood Stakes on Saturday night at Churchill Downs and that he was unsure whether to forge ahead to the Oct. 31 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Ralph Nicks arrived back in south Florida around lunchtime on Sunday after having attended the Keeneland yearling sale for the past week. By the time he got to dinner that night, Nicks had added five more victories to his already impressive record here this summer, a feat even he found a bit hard to believe.

“Did it really happen?” Nicks said on Monday. “That’s what I was saying last night.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Nearly a year and a half of frustration came to a swift end for her owners Saturday when Modernstone gave Kelly Rubley the first stakes victory of her training career on closing day at Kentucky Downs in south-central Kentucky.

Modernstone closed powerfully for a 29-1 upset in the Kentucky Downs Ladies Marathon for the partnership of Wachtel Stable, Brous Stable, and Gary Barber. The 5-year-old British-bred mare had not finished better than fourth in her 11 previous North American starts.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The march toward the final act of American Pharoah’s racing career began on Monday morning here at Santa Anita, where he had his first work since the Travers Stakes 23 days earlier and his first work in preparation for the Breeders’ Cup Classic 40 days hence.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Lexie Lou, the 2014 Canadian Horse of the Year, will not run again in 2015, trainer Mark Casse said.

Lexie Lou was scheduled to make her first start since January in an allowance race Aug. 26 at Woodbine as a prep for the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes on Sept. 13. Instead, she was scratched from that allowance after experiencing swelling in one of her eyes.

“She won’t run this year,” Casse said. “Lexie is back in Ocala. Her eye just did not respond as quickly as we would have liked. She’s doing better, and we’re just going to wait and see.”

Frosted and I’m a Chatterbox punched their tickets to the Breeders’ Cup on Saturday with their respective wins in the Pennsylvania Derby and Cotillion, the $1 million brother-sister races for 3-year-olds that highlight the season at Parx Racing.

Frosted was returning on three weeks’ rest following his courageous third-place finish in the Travers at Saratoga, a race in which he hooked American Pharoah on the lead for approximately five-sixteenths of a mile before flattening out late. He scored a relatively easy two-length victory in the 1 1/8-mile Pa. Derby under Joel Rosario.

Sheer Drama, the likely Breeders’ Cup Distaff favorite if Beholder runs in the BC Classic as planned, worked Sunday morning at Gulfstream Park. The five-furlong workout was the first for Sheer Drama since she won the Grade 1 Personal Ensign on Aug. 29 at Saratoga.

“I thought she went excellent,” trainer David Fawkes said by phone from Gulfstream. “As far as I know, the track was a little dead. I still got her in 1:01 and change, well within herself. She just did everything perfect.”