SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Todd Pletcher’s decision to move Palace Malice’s final Whitney workout from Sunday to Saturday proved prescient, as heavy rains left the track wet Sunday and Monday.

It rained so hard early Monday morning – turning the Oklahoma training track into a sloppy mess – that trainer D. Wayne Lukas postponed a scheduled Monday breeze for last year’s 3-year-old champion, Will Take Charge. Tom Albertrani, the trainer of beaten Suburban favorite Romansh, also scrapped a scheduled workout. Both are expected for the Whitney, to be run Saturday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey Javier Castellano will sign autographs at Saratoga on Sunday from 11 a.m. to noon, with voluntary donations made by patrons given to the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which funds research to find cures for childhood cancers.

Those who donate will receive an autographed hat, poster, or T-shirt donated by Ed Stanco, the owner of Princess of Sylmar, with all proceeds going to St. Baldrick’s.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Having proven to be more than just a Gulfstream Park horse-for-course when he won the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint Handicap at Pimlico on Preakness Day, Happy My Way will attempt to stamp himself as an elite sprinter when he runs in Saturday’s Grade 1, $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga.

Cleverly Beverly won a maiden race in her 21st try July 6 at Pleasanton as the last horse saddled by owner-trainer Roger Stein. Stein, 60, retired from training due to an incapacitating form of nerve damage called advanced peripheral neuropathy, which has affected his feet and fingers for the past five years.

Cleverly Beverly will make her first start against winners Wednesday at the Sonoma County Fair in Santa Rosa, running in a starter-allowance race on turf with Joshua Stein, Roger’s nephew, training her now.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Del Mar officials said they expected a return to grass racing when racing resumes Wednesday, following a tumultuous period last week in which three horses perished in races Friday and Saturday, causing a suspension of grass racing Sunday.

The three deaths brought to four the number of horses who had to be euthanized following injuries in grass races during the first eight days of the meet. In addition, four other horses have died either racing or training since the track opened just before the meet, which began July 17.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Untapable, the leading 3-year-old filly in the country, returned to Saratoga shortly after 9 a.m. Monday a bit tired but otherwise okay following her fifth-place finish against males in Sunday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

It was the first loss in five starts this year for Untapable, who tried the Haskell after dominant performances in the Kentucky Oaks and Mother Goose, both Grade 1 races.

Jockey Daniel Centeno got the 2,000th victory of his career in North America on Sunday at Parx Racing when he guided even-money favorite Forest Rim to a front-running allowance win in the seventh race for trainer Jonathan Sheppard.

Centeno, a five-time leading rider at Tampa Bay Downs, began riding in his native Venezuela in 1990 and in 2003 moved to the United States. Centeno currently leads the Delaware Park standings by one win over Alex Cintron.

Delaware Park canceled its Monday card due to heavy thunderstorms that moved through the region Sunday night.

The rain washed out a portion of the track in the stretch by the eighth pole, which necessitated the cancellation, acccording to Delaware Park communications director Chris Sobocinski. The races originally scheduled for Monday will instead be held Wednesday and will not be redrawn.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – It was just a three-horse field, but Conquest Tsunami made short work of his two rivals in Saturday’s $157,250 Colin Stakes to remain undefeated in three starts as a 2-year-old.

Conquest Tsunami got out to the lead early in the Colin and drew off through the turn to win by 6 3/4 lengths over R U Watchingbud. Conquest Tsunami earned a 77 Beyer Speed Figure and has won his three career races by a combined 20 3/4 lengths.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Wicked Strong, Tonalist and Kid Cruz - the top three finishers from Saturday’s Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes - all came out of the race in relatively good order and all will be pointed to the $1.25 million Travers Stakes here on Aug. 23, their connections said Sunday morning.

Beginning in 2005, the Jim Dandy has produced seven Travers winners. Wicked Strong will try to join the likes of Flower Alley (2005), Bernardini (2006), Street Sense (2007), Stay Thirsty (2011), and Alpha (dead heat for Travers win in 2012) who pulled off the Jim Dandy-Travers double.