Trainer Bill Kaplan said his latest stable star, East Hall, either will stay home in south Florida to make his next start in the Aug. 30 Monarchos Stakes at Gulfstream Park or will be sent on the road again to try tougher competition in the Grade 2 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs a week later.

Kaplan was in good spirits when reached by phone Tuesday at Gulfstream, where East Hall was expected to return to training the following morning on the heels of the richest victory of his career last Saturday in the $300,000 Ohio Derby in suburban Cleveland.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Dance With Fate would easily fit in the rich stakes for 3-year-olds in New Jersey, New York, or West Virginia over the next two weekends. He would be well suited to run in the $150,000 La Jolla Handicap for 3-year-olds on turf at Del Mar on Aug. 9.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Jose Garoffalo grabbed the gold ring last year when he bought Wildcat Red out of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Co.’s June sale of 2-year-olds and horses of racing age for $30,000.

Wildcat Red has since won the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth and Grade 3 Hutcheson, just missed in the Florida Derby, and has earned $750,000. On Sunday, he will be among the top contenders in the Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Ontrack business was up while overall handle was flat through the first four days of the 2014 Saratoga meet when compared to the same period last year.

Blessed by good weather and buoyed by the first giveaway day of the year on Sunday, total attendance through the first four days was 83,217, an 18.2 percent increase over last year’s figure of 70,390. There was no giveaway on the first Sunday of last year’s meet.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – On Sunday, trainer Rick Violette revealed that Samraat, winner of the Withers and Gotham stakes at Aqueduct during the winter, would miss the remainder of his 3-year-old season due to a stress fracture in his right shin. The injury was detected a day after Samraat worked four furlongs at Saratoga in preparation for the Jim Dandy.

With Samraat out of the mix, it left, as of Monday, only four definite starters for the Jim Dandy: Tonalist, Wicked Strong, Ulanbator, and Legend. Kid Cruz, winner of the Dwyer Stakes, is possible.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Hot Stones, winner of the Grade 3 Bed o’ Roses Handicap at seven furlongs last month, will attempt to stretch out to 1 1/8 miles in Sunday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Shuvee Handicap at Saratoga.

Hot Stones, a 4-year-old daughter of Bustin Stones, has raced around two turns twice, both over Aqueduct’s inner track and both going a mile. She won an open-company allowance race by 4 3/4 lengths and finished sixth, beaten 8 3/4 lengths, in a New York-bred optional claimer on Feb. 23.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jockey Rosario Montanez, injured in a spill at Saratoga on Saturday, will likely remain hospitalized until at least Thursday, his agent, Mike Monroe, said.

Montanez underwent surgery on Sunday to the outer structure of his left eye and may need a second surgery, said Monroe, who added that Montanez “was able to see out of both eyes.”

Montanez, who is at Albany Medical Center, also suffered a fractured pelvis, three broken ribs on his right side, a broken nose, and facial lacerations.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The connections of Kentucky Derby runner-up Commanding Curve hope to take the path of least resistance to the $1.25 million Travers Stakes on Aug. 23 by running in Friday’s $100,000 Curlin Stakes instead of Saturday’s Grade 2, $600,000 Jim Dandy at Saratoga.

Commanding Curve was one of 10 horses entered Monday in the Curlin, which is restricted to horses who have not won a graded stakes over a mile this year. The Curlin, like the Jim Dandy, is run at 1 1/8 miles.

DE MAR, Calif. - Frac Daddy, sent to Del Mar because of his aptitude on synthetic surfaces, worked five furlongs in 59.80 seconds on Monday morning for trainer Kenny McPeek in his final drill for the Grade 2, $200,000 San Diego Handicap for 3-year-olds and up on Saturday.

Frac Daddy comes off a second-place finish in the Dominion Day Stakes at Woodbine on July 1. Earlier this year, he won the Eclipse at Woodbine, and the Ben Ali at Keeneland. Both those races were run on Polytrack, the same surface as at Del Mar.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Untapable, who will attempt to become the third 3-year-old filly to win the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday, completed her serious preparations for the Haskell by working a half-mile in 50.28 seconds over Saratoga’s Oklahoma training track Monday morning.

Working by herself shortly after 6 a.m., Untapable, under exercise rider Mike Callaham, seemed a bit eager galloping to the pole. She went her first quarter-mile in 24.87 seconds and her second quarter in 25.41.