Plans for Smack Smack, winner of the $175,000 Governor’s Cup at Remington Park on Aug. 15, are to be determined, trainer Don Von Hemel said. The horse rallied for a half-length win in what is the premier route race for older horses in Oklahoma City.

“I wasn’t here for the race,” Von Hemel said. “We had a death in the family, so I had to be out of town. I came back and watched the replays and everything, and he just ran a fantastic race. He put that horse away and was getting away from them at the end.”

Ivan Fallunovalot has been made eligible for the Breeders’ Cup, and now his connections are debating the best path to get him to the $1.5 million Sprint on Oct. 31 at Keeneland. The options are the $150,000 Remington Park Sprint Cup on Sept. 27 at the horse’s home track or the Grade 3, $250,000 Phoenix on Oct. 2 at Keeneland, trainer Tom Howard said.

“We got to do a little research and see what’s best,” Howard said. “We want to get him there in good shape, without really putting rough miles on him and beating him up. The fresher I can go into it, the better I feel.”

The Louisiana Racing Commission adopted national uniform medication rules during a meeting Monday, but there will be a grace period before penalties are levied against the connections of horses in violation of the new guidelines, state officials said. Trainers will be made aware of violations during the grace period that runs from Sept. 20, when the uniform rules take effect in Louisiana, through Nov. 15.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – They were the two best 2-year-olds of 2014, and one of them has turned into the best 3-year-old of this or most any other season in the last 37 years.

While American Pharoah has annihilated virtually every 3-year-old he has faced this year en route to winning the Triple Crown, the intrigue of Saturday’s Grade 1, $1.6 million Travers Stakes is the first meeting between him and Texas Red, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner, in 11 months.

Trainer Peter Miller’s quest to re-acquire and retire stakes winner All Squared Away has come to fruition. A private purchase last week enabled Miller to take possession of All Squared Away and retire him, bringing to a close a saga in which Miller claimed the horse with the intention to retire him, only to start anew when the claim was voided.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin had a cell phone full of congratulatory texts and was still receiving kudos from fellow horsemen Tuesday morning for the eye-catching debut performance of Jess’s Dream in Monday’s sixth race.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Bayern will head to Santa Anita at the end of this meet and could race there this fall, but already there have been discussions between trainer Bob Baffert and owner Kaleem Shah about whether to go on with him, being as Bayern has not reproduced the strong form of 2014, when he won the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Bayern finished ninth in the Pacific Classic on Saturday, beating only Midnight Storm, who hounded Bayern through blazing early fractions.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Tony Dutrow suffered his first significant setback of the meet when Tekton sustained a condylar fracture to his left hind leg on Monday. Tekton will be forced to miss Saturday’s Grade 1 King’s Bishop and the remainder of the year.

Tekton, runner-up in the Curlin Stakes on July 31, had a very sharp workout here on Monday, going four furlongs in 48.21 seconds over the Oklahoma training track. Dutrow, who has gone 5 for 14 at the meet, was looking forward to running him in the King’s Bishop.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Santa Anita Derby winner Dortmund, idle since the Preakness Stakes, worked three furlongs in 36.40 seconds on Monday as he gears up for a return to the races, which was interrupted earlier this meet when he was cast in his stall and severely bruised his ribs.

“That rib thing was a painful thing for him,” said his trainer, Bob Baffert.

Baffert said Dortmund was “decimated after the Preakness” and needed a rest to put the weight back on him.

“It was all too much for him,” he said. “Some horses just can’t handle all the racing.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – D. Wayne Lukas said after the Indiana Derby that he was going to shorten up Mr. Z in distance and, despite having nominated him to the Grade 1 Travers, he will stay true to his word by running him in Saturday’s Grade 1 King’s Bishop at seven furlongs.

Mr. Z has run in 13 consecutive stakes around two turns, including a nose win in the $500,000 Ohio Derby and a runner-up finish to Tiz Shea D in the Grade 2 Indiana Derby.