OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Forte, three-length winner of the Grade 1 Hopeful on Sept. 5 at Saratoga, will run in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne Stakes going a mile at Aqueduct.

Trainer Todd Pletcher also was considering training him up to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 4.

Forte worked a half-mile in 47.87 seconds last Friday at Saratoga.

“He worked really well,” Pletcher said. “Seems like he has good energy, seems happy.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Life Is Good is expected to have just three or four opponents in Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Woodward Stakes at Aqueduct, scheduled to be his last race before the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Keeneland.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – History could be made Saturday at Gulfstream Park when Awesome Strong and Lynx attempt to sweep both divisions of the Florida Sire Stakes series in the same year for the first time since the series began at Calder Race Course in 1982.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Avenue de France won two stakes at the Del Mar summer meeting, but will only have one chance to win a race at that level at the Santa Anita autumn meeting that begins Friday.

Avenue de France will miss the Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles on turf Oct. 8 in favor of the Grade 2 Goldikova Stakes at a mile on turf Oct. 29.

While the $200,000 Goldikova has a purse $100,000 less than the Rodeo Drive, the timing of the race is a good fit for Avenue de France, trainer Leonard Powell said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Restrainedvengence, an eight-time stakes winner who was third in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Del Mar last November, has been taken out of training after losing five starts this year.

Restrainedvengence has won 10 of 40 starts and earned $1,022,252. A 7-year-old gelding, Restrainedvengence was last of 10 in the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes at seven furlongs on Aug. 28 at Del Mar, which may turn out to be his final race, trainer Val Brinkerhoff said Sunday.

Lieutenant Dan will miss Saturday’s Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes for turf sprinters at Santa Anita and remains tentatively on course for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint on Nov. 5 at Keeneland.

Lieutenant Dan won the 2021 Eddie D Stakes and was later second in the BC Turf Sprint at Del Mar. Owner and breeder Nick Alexander and trainer Steve Miyadi recently reached the decision to skip the Eddie D Stakes, Alexander said Sunday.

“He is not going to run in the Eddie. D,” Alexander said. “Steve said he is not 100 percent and does not want to take chances. It’s nothing serious.”

CYPRESS, Calif. - Ce Ce, the champion female sprinter of 2021, worked five furlongs in 1:01 at Santa Anita on Sunday, but trainer Michael McCarthy said he has yet to decide whether the 6-year-old mare will start before the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 5.

Ce Ce won the BC Filly and Mare Sprint at Del Mar last November to clinch her title.

McCarthy said the Grade 3 Chillingworth Stakes for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita next Sunday is a possibility for Ce Ce’s final start before this year’s BC Filly and Mare Sprint.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Flightline made it look easy Saturday morning at Santa Anita.

The world’s top-rated horse worked an effortless half-mile in 48 seconds in his first drill since a crushing victory in the Pacific Classic on Sept. 3 at Del Mar. Flightline worked by himself at 6:35 a.m. under exercise rider Juan Leyva.

Trainer Richard Mandella plans to start the 3-year-old Forbidden Kingdom in the Grade 2 Santa Anita Sprint Championship at six furlongs on Oct. 1.

Unraced since a last-place finish of six in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby in April, Forbidden Kingdom worked six furlongs in 1:12 at Santa Anita on Friday. The time was much quicker than a six-furlong workout in 1:14.40 on Sept. 17.

Mandella said that Forbidden Kingdom had a warm foot for a few days after the Sept. 17 workout, but that the colt recovered quickly.

Royal Ship, the winner of the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar in July and two other stakes in the last 18 months, is not a certain starter in the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1 and may make his next appearance in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland on Nov. 5.

“I’m looking at the Awesome Again, but I’m not sure,” trainer Richard Mandella said on Friday.