ELMONT, N.Y. - Royal Delta and Ron the Greek, two of trainer Bill Mott’s stars, put in workouts Sunday morning over Belmont’s main track.

Royal Delta, preparing for this Saturday’s $750,000 Delaware Handicap, was credited with a five-furlong time of 1:00.29 for a breeze that began at the half-mile pole.

Royal Delta actually shaded 47 seconds to the wire in a quick drill.

“She went maybe quicker than we wanted but she was doing it effortlessly,” Mott said.

Mott said Royal Delta would ship to Delaware the morning of the race.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Apprentice jockey Jose Ortiz will miss an unspecified amount of time with a bruised lung as a result of a spill he was involved in during the running of Sunday’s eighth race at Belmont Park.

Ortiz, a five-pound apprentice, had no other internal injuries, according to the New York Racing Association.

“We won’t rush into anything,” Mike Gonzalez, the agent for Ortiz, told NYRA. “We will find out more from the doctors and go from there.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ralph Biamonte didn’t have much to cheer about at Fort Erie on Sunday, as he sent out Menlo’s Castle and Run in Aruba to finish seventh and eighth in the Prince of Wales Stakes.

But Biamonte was was glued to one of the television sets there earlier Sunday afternoon and had occasion to celebrate as he watched Cryptic Message, saddled by his assistant, Rocco de Luca, lead throughout Woodbine’s $150,800 Shady Well Stakes under regular rider Emma-Jayne Wilson.

Suffolk Downs has canceled the live racing program scheduled for Tuesday due to a forecast that calls for extreme heat and humidity. The track will also be closed for simulcasting on Tuesday.

Live racing and simulcasting are scheduled to resume on Wednesday. First post time is 12:45 p.m.

Kyle Frey, the Eclipse Award-winning apprentice jockey in 2011, will miss a minimum of six months and could be out a year as a result of broken right leg suffered in a spill Saturday at Parx Racing.

Frey was aboard Holy Bear who was vying for the lead turning for home when he fell in the stretch of Saturday’s seventh race at Parx. Holy Bear suffered fatal injuries to his left foreleg and had to be euthanized.

According Frey’s agent, Mark North, Frey underwent surgery Saturday night at a Philadelphia-area hospital, where he had a rod and four screws inserted into the leg.

AUBURN, Wash. - The 3-year-old divisions at Emerald Downs were turned upside down Sunday with upsets in both halves of a stakes doubleheader.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia  –  Trainer Troy Taylor, owner Glen Todd, and jockey Fernando Perez teamed  up to win their sixth stakes race in a row at Hastings with Caged Mistress in the $50,000 Strawberry Morn on Sunday. She paid $8.10 for her nose win over Wando Woman in the 1 1/16-mile feature for fillies and mares.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Sunday’s closing day at Hollywood Park was a family day for trainer Mike Mitchell.

Mitchell, 64, made his first appearance at the races since he underwent surgery for a brain tumor June 29. He won the day’s feature race, the Grade 3 Sunset Handicap with the heavily favored Dhaamer, who was ridden by his future son-in-law, Julien Leparoux.

Trainer John Sadler will know by sundown Wednesday whether his red-hot streak has extended through opening day at Del Mar.

From July 1 through Sunday, Sadler won with 11 of 21 starters, including a sweep of the three graded stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park Saturday – the Grade 1 American Oaks with Lady of Shamrock, the Grade 2 A Gleam Handicap with Switch, and the Grade 3 Hollywood Juvenile Championship with Scherer Magic.

“It was a good finish to the meet,” Sadler said.

Jockey Jose Ortiz was taken to North Shore University Hospital on Sunday complaining of back and shoulder pain as a result of a spill in the eighth race of Belmont Park’s closing-day card.

There was a second spill on the card in which jockey Cornelio Velasquez was uninjured after being thrown from his mount, Salsa Mambo, leaving the gate in the ninth race.