DEL MAR, Calif. – Tilde, the 8-5 favorite, closed from fourth on the backstretch to win her second stakes of the Del Mar meeting Wednesday in the $150,000 Generous Portion Stakes.

Tilde was ridden by Rafael Bejarano, his 11th stakes win of the meeting. He is one away from equaling the record of 12 stakes wins in a single meeting shared by Laffit Pincay Jr. (1976), Chris McCarron (1995), Gary Stevens (1997), and Corey Nakatani (1998).

The meeting, which began July 18, ends Wednesday, Sept. 5.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -  Trainer Chad Brown pinpointed Wednesday’s $100,000 P.G. Johnson Stakes for Watsdachances almost from the moment the Irish-bred got off the plane and arrived at his barn earlier this summer,  then had her fit and ready to deliver a game neck decision over Broken Spell in the first turf stakes for 2-year-olds of the meet at Saratoga.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Data Link will be the 122-pound highweight and likely favorite when facing just six rivals in the Bernard Baruch Handicap on Saturday at Saratoga. Data Link has not started since winning the Grade 2 Monmouth on June 10. He was scratched from the Grade 2 Fourstardave here earlier this summer due to the soft condition of the turf course.

Data Link breaks from the rail under John Velazquez and faces a lineup that consists of Crimson China, Queen’splatekitten, Dominus, Guys Reward, Sky Blazer, and Prince Will I Am.

St. John’s River, the Kentucky Oaks runner-up in 2011, is being given some time off and is to resume training this winter at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, according to her trainer, Andrew Leggio Jr.

“That’s the plan right now, unless things change,” he said.

St. John’s River had been based this summer at Saratoga, and in her last start July 26 was second as the odds-on favorite in a second-level allowance. She was beaten 3 1/2 lengths, one race removed from a third-place finish to Royal Delta in the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis at Churchill Downs.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Prayer for Relief, the one-horse traveling show, will add another racetrack to the long list of venues at which he has run when he starts Saturday in the Washington Park Handicap at Arlington.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The racing week began at Del Mar on Wednesday with trainer Peter Miller on the verge of his first training title and well on his way to the best season of his career.

Saturday, he could have his first Grade 1 win in nearly two years when he starts as many as three fillies in the $300,000 Del Mar Debutante over seven furlongs.

Through Sunday, Miller was tied with Doug O’Neill with 18 wins at the meeting. O’Neill will not add to his total. He began a 40-day suspension on Aug. 19 for a medication violation from 2010.

If the recent dominance of Hastings-based horses running in stakes races at Northlands Park is any indication, Ten Thirty is going to be a handful when she runs in the $50,000 Bird of Pay for 2-year-old fillies Friday. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint drew six horses and there isn’t much doubt Ten Thirty is going to be a solid favorite.

Another arrow pointing at Ten Thirty is her trainer, Greg Tracy. The leading trainer at Northlands, Tracy is having a lot of success with his babies this year, having won 17 races from 53 starts, or 32 percent, with 2-year-olds.

It looks like a full field of 12 3-year-olds will line up in the Grade 3 British Columbia Derby Sept. 9. Fresh faces will help make the premier race at Hastings one of the more interesting renewals in recent years. Expected to ship up from Emerald Downs are Italian Boy and D’honorable One, the second- and third-place finishers in the Emerald Downs Derby on Aug. 12.

A couple of horses that have been racing in the eastern United States really spice up the race.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Haskell winner Paynter was showing signs of improvement Wednesday from his battle with colitis, but he remains in a veterinary clinic near Saratoga Race Course and his connections remain very much concerned about his health.

According to owner Ahmed Zayat, Paynter’s white blood cell count, which was dangerously low on Monday and Tuesday, had doubled by Wednesday morning.

Jackson Bend made big news when he rallied to an easy 3 1/4-length victory to earn his first Grade 1 victory in last year’s Forego. It will be an even more amazing story if he can compete and successfully defend that title on Saturday.

Jackson Bend was one of eight older horses entered Wednesday for the  $500,000 Forego, which along with the $250,000 Bernard Baruch support Saturday’s main event, the Grade 1 Woodward. The Forego will be decided at seven furlongs over the main track, the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch at 1 1/16 miles on the Mellon turf course.