Discreet Marq, who has a win and three seconds in four Grade 1 attempts, worked five furlongs in 1:00.62 over Belmont’s main track Friday morning in preparation for the Grade 1, $750,000 Just a Game Stakes here next Saturday.

Discreet Marq won the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks last July but has since finished second in the Garden City, Matriarch, and, in her first start this year, the Jenny Wiley at Keeneland.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Beholder, the 3-year-old champion filly of 2013, arrived in New York Thursday from Southern California for her showdown with divisional rivals Princess of Sylmar and Close Hatches in next Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Ogden Phipps Stakes at Belmont Park.

Game On Dude moved closer to a start in the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 29 with a five-furlong workout in 1:00.60 at Santa Anita on Thursday.

Game On Dude worked in company with a stablemate, starting two lengths behind. He moved alongside the stablemate on the outside on the turn and finished in front under jockey Martin Garcia. The final time equaled the 12th fastest of 39 recorded works at the distance.

AUBURN, Wash. – It’s almost as if City by the Bay took a wrong turn on a California freeway and ended up hundreds of miles from home in unfamiliar surroundings. An undefeated stakes winner in her home state but with no connections to the Pacific Northwest, City by the Bay will make her 2014 debut Sunday at Emerald Downs, as a prohibitive favorite in the $50,000 Seattle Handicap for 3-year-old fillies.

Sahara Sky, the winner of the 2013 Metropolitan Handicap, worked five furlongs in 1:02.20 on Friday, leaving co-owner and trainer Jerry Hollendorfer to make a decision this weekend on the next start for the multiple stakes winner.

Hollendorfer said he is deciding between the $1.25 million Met Mile at Belmont Park next Saturday, or waiting for the $300,000 Triple Bend Stakes at seven furlongs at Santa Anita on June 28.

“I’m still on the fence,” Hollendorfer said. “I don’t have an answer yet.”

Fiftyshadesofgold will attempt to be the first Texas-bred to win a Grade 1 race in more than a decade on Saturday, when she runs in the $750,000 Acorn at Belmont Park. She will be one of the top choices in the one-mile race for 3-year-old fillies on the strength of her win in the Grade 3 Eight Belles at Churchill Downs.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Move over, California Chrome. There is another Lucky Pulpit colt in trainer Art Sherman’s stable attracting attention.

Kristi’s Copilot, a 2-year-old California-bred owned by breeder David LaCroix, is being pointed for the $125,000 Santa Anita Juvenile at 5 1/2 furlongs on June 22 after winning his debut on May 16.

Kristi’s Copilot won a maiden race at 4 1/2 furlongs in 51.84 seconds under Aaron Gryder, leaving Sherman impressed with the effort.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – It is hard to go past Tempest in a first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds that will serve as Sunday’s feature at Hastings. After all, Tempest is coming off a second-place finish in the $50,000 Jim Coleman Province on May 3 and he will appreciate the easier company with the drop into a conditional race. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint attracted six horses and goes as race 6 at 4:20 p.m. Pacific.

Trainer Dino Condilenios nominated Tempest to next Saturday’s $50,000 River Rock Casino, but opted for the easier spot.

ELMONT, N.Y. – There will be a pick six carryover of $141,367 at Belmont Park on Friday after the wager went unhit for a second straight card Thursday.

Despite longshot winners Finders Key ($28.60), Sam Sparkle ($23.20), and Ode to Sami ($58) as part of the sequence, there were live tickets to three of the eight runners entering the nightcap.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The connections of California Chrome who are based in New York have emanated more and more confidence in their colt’s Triple Crown quest with each passing morning that they watch their Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner train.

That confidence has traveled cross-country to California, where California Chrome’s 77-year-old trainer, Art Sherman, has been based for the last 10 days. While overseeing his string at Los Alamitos, Sherman has kept close tabs on what’s been going on at Belmont Park.