The California stakes winners Ashleyluvssugar, Bolo, and Spanish Queen were back at Santa Anita on Tuesday after disappointing performances in Grade 1 stakes in New York and New Jersey last weekend. At least two of them are likely to start at the Del Mar summer meeting, which begins July 16.

Trainer Larry Jones will have the home-field advantage when he sends out two of the eight runners in the $300,000 Delaware Oaks on Saturday.

Jones, who is based at Delaware Park during the summer, plans to run both Lovely Maria, the winner of the Kentucky Oaks in her last start, and White Clover, the winner of the Our Mims, the local Delaware Oaks prep.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Buff Bradley was as disappointed in the results of the Belmont Derby last weekend as anyone who bet on Divisidero at 5-2.

“I really wish we’d been up closer because the pace was so slow, but that’s hindsight,” said Bradley. “The good news is he came out of the race really well, and we’ve got a lot of racing left in the year.”

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – At Woodbine on Sunday, the turf-sprinting filly Katie’s Eyes finished second by a neck to Go Blue Or Go Home in a wickedly fast edition of the Grade 2 Highlander Stakes, an open race in which she tackled males, and on Friday at Arlington, the 2-year-old filly Amira J blazed to a 14-length win in her five-furlong career debut. All in all, it was a good weekend for the stable of Mike Stidham, who trains both horses.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Sweet Luca could only finish fifth at Arlington Park on June 12 making his first start since December, but he was also rusty in his 2014 debut. Two races later, Sweet Luca became the only horse last year to defeat subsequent champion sprinter Work All Week, beating him by 1 1/4 lengths in the Addison Cammack Handicap. A decent step forward seems likely in Thursday’s featured sixth race, and that would make Sweet Luca an attractive play in a high-end Polytrack allowance that has stakes-dropping Dimension as the 2-1 morning-line favorite.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – The last Kentucky Derby winner to race at Arlington was Unbridled, who, the year after winning the 1990 Derby, won an allowance race here in 1991. But Arlington is the plan for 2014 Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome, who arrived in Chicago on Monday after shipping from England by way of Amsterdam.

ELMONT, N.Y. – As it did last year, the Aqueduct backstretch will be shut down during the Saratoga meet and horses stabled there will be moved to either Belmont Park or Saratoga, New York Racing Association officials announced last week.

The backside is expected to close about July 23 and reopen about Labor Day, Sept. 7, according to Martin Panza, NYRA’s director of racing operations.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With a nine-win lead entering the final two weeks of the meet, Todd Pletcher seems pretty certain to win his eighth Belmont spring-summer trainers title. The question is whether he will set a meet record for victories.

Pletcher entered this week with 39 wins, five short of David Jacobson’s record of 44, established in 2013.

Pletcher had three runners entered Wednesday and two on Thursday, but none for Friday’s card.

Pletcher’s personal best for number of wins at a Belmont spring-summer meet is 40, which he attained winning the meet title in 2003.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With nine weeks between races, trainer Shug McGaughey did not feel it was necessary to do too much too soon with his Grade 1 winner Honor Code in order to have him ready for the $1.25 million Whitney Stakes on Aug. 8 at Saratoga.

So, in the first 30 days after his Met Mile victory Honor Code had just one work, a half-mile move in 49.44 seconds June 20. Tuesday, Honor Code had his second work since the race, a three-furlong move timed by Belmont clockers in 36.81 over the main track.

CYPRESS, Calif. – This summer is shaping into a busy one in stakes races for California-based trainer Keith Desormeaux.

Already, Desormeaux won the $150,500 San Juan Capistrano at Santa Anita on June 28 with the former claimer Crucero. Last Saturday, Texas Red, winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last November, ran a game second in the Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park.

Desormeaux has plans to have stakes runners at Los Alamitos this weekend and at Del Mar and Saratoga in coming weeks.