DEL MAR, Calif. – The 2-year-old filly Tilde will remain with California-breds for the remainder of the Del Mar meeting after winning her first stakes in Friday’s $100,000 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Stakes for statebred 2-year-old fillies.

Trainer Mike Harrington, who owns and bred the filly, has the option of a start against open company in the $150,000 Sorrento Stakes over 6 1/2 furlongs, but said on Saturday she is likely to stay with California-breds.

“She’s a nice filly but she may have her limitations,” Harrington said.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Tilde led throughout Friday’s $100,000 California Thoroughbred Breeders Association Stakes to win her first stakes in the sprint for California-bred 2-year-old fillies at Del Mar.

Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Tilde ran 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:04.50 and was never truly threatened in the stretch, finishing 3 1/2 lengths in front of the maiden Cotton’s Point. Tribal Peace, the 4-5 favorite, closed from sixth in the field of seven to finish third.

Awe Golly Molly was fourth, followed by AkissForarose, Awe’ Some Kitten, and JillyBaylee.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - When Tony Dutrow on Tuesday entered So Many Ways in Friday's Grade 3, $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes at Saratoga, he said he told the entry clerk the filly would win the race.

"I've won this race before and finished second a couple of times with horses that couldn't come close to her," Dutrow said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. -- John Velazquez confirmed that he will return to the saddle on Wednesday. He is expected to ride Stephanie’s Kitten in the Grade 2, $200,000 Lake George for 3-year-old fillies.

Velazquez, who sustained a broken collarbone in a spill at Churchill Downs on June 16, has been getting on horses since Monday. Thursday, he breezed three horses, and Friday he breezed two more.

Velazquez said he would probably limit himself to riding one or two horses a day, at least for the first week or so.

Trainer Joe Cain, a mainstay on the Kentucky circuit, is battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. For years, Cain has operated out of his farm in the faraway town of Russell Springs in the south-central part of Kentucky, driving tens of thousands of miles each year to run his horses at Ellis Park, Turfway Park, and other tracks. Before the races on opening day, July 4, about 50 friends and colleagues hosted Cain in the Ellis track kitchen, giving him a warm reception and a plaque honoring his tenure in racing.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Belle Royale, the winner of the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes at Hollywood Park in May, has been retired and sent to Kentucky to be bred next year, trainer Simon Callaghan said.

Callaghan said earlier this month that Belle Royale had suffered a tendon injury that jeopardized her racing career. After consulting with veterinarians, Callaghan and owner Michael Tabor opted to end her racing career, which included 10 wins in 26 starts and earnings of $358,231.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Rick Dutrow Jr. lost another round in court on Thursday but rebounded 24 hours later to win Friday’s $100,000 James Marvin at Saratoga.

One day after a New York appeals court upheld the 10-year revocation of his trainer’s license, a penalty handed to him last fall by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board, Dutrow sent out the lightning-fast Pacific Ocean to register a 1 3/4-length victory over Goldigger’s Boy in the Grade 3 James Marvin on Saratoga's opening day.

AUBURN, Wash. – A couple of new shooters will take a local test drive Sunday in the $50,000 Mt. Rainier Handicap, the final stakes preliminary at Emerald Downs before the Grade 3, $200,000 Longacres Mile on Aug. 19. The 10-race program begins at 2 p.m. Pacific.

Ruler On Ice, the 2011 Belmont Stakes winner but idle since finishing far back in the Grade 1 Donn Handicap this past winter at Gulfstream Park, worked a half-mile in 48.40 from the gate in company with stablemate Valley Stream over the main track at Saratoga on Friday.

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ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Trainer Mark Frostad kept his options open with Stars to Shine, nominating the 5-year-old mare to both stakes races that will be run here Sunday.

Accomplished on both turf and Polytrack, Stars to Shine could have faced males in the Grade 2, $300,000 Nijinsky over 1 1/8 miles of turf or stayed with her own sort in the Grade 3, $150,000 Matron at 1 1/16 miles on the main track.

Frostad eventually chose the latter option, and Stars to Shine looms the probable choice in the Ontario Matron’s field of eight.