ELMONT, N.Y. – Order up a set of top hat and tails for trainer Todd Pletcher.

Pletcher confirmed Saturday that he will be sending both More Than Real and Bridgetown to England for the upcoming Royal Ascot meeting, June 14-18. Both horses worked five furlongs in a swift 58.56 seconds over Belmont’s inner turf course on Saturday. The works were conducted on the inner turf course and only one set of traffic cones, referred to as dogs, were up.

“They both worked really, really well, especially [More Than Real], she worked really good,” Pletcher said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – When Quartermaster flashed under the wire an easy winner of the first race Friday at Churchill Downs, he brought back a fleeting memory for his trainer, Al Stall Jr., of what he was doing two decades ago.

Although he was claimed for $40,000 from the maiden-claiming race, Quartermaster was carrying the green and gold silks of Lazy Lane Farms, the Virginia racing stable owned by media mogul Joe Allbritton.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The 2010 Grade 1 winners Harmonious and Jaycito have resumed serious training in recent days in preparation for expected summertime comebacks.

Harmonious, the winner of the Grade 1 American Oaks at Hollywood Park and Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland last year, is expected to race at Del Mar this summer. Trained by John Shirreffs for Marty and Pam Wygod, Harmonious has not started since finishing third in the Grade 2 La Canada Stakes on dirt at Santa Anita in February.

Mac Robertson has long been king of the hill during summers at Canterbury Park in Minnesota, winning six consecutive trainer titles between 2005 and 2010. When he brought a string of horses to Delaware Park for the first time last season, however, Robertson didn’t make much of an impact.

ELMONT, N.Y. – If Dale Romans was looking for a reason not to run Preakness winner Shackleford in next Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, he certainly couldn’t find it watching the colt work Saturday morning over Belmont Park’s main track.

Retama Park near San Antonio has released its Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse stakes schedule for its live season of racing that will open July 1 and extend through Oct. 15. The first leg of the three-tiered meet will offer Quarter Horse racing from July 1 to July 28. The track will then conduct a mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses from July 29-Aug. 27. There will then be straight Thoroughbred racing from Sept. 1-Oct. 15.

“We’re excited about the meet,” said Bryan Brown, the chief operating officer of Retama.

Remington Park in Oklahoma City put out its Thoroughbred stakes schedule Friday afternoon, and boosted by $50,000 each the purse of the Springboard Mile for 2-year-olds, which will be worth $300,000 on Dec. 10, and the Oaks, which will have a purse of $250,000 when it is run Oct. 16.

The races are part of a schedule of 28 stakes worth a cumulative $3.2 million. Remington, which operates a casino, will run 67 dates this year, from Aug. 18 through Dec. 10.

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Lisa's Booby Trap wins her comeback race Tuesday at Finger Lakes.

One of racing’s most heartwarming stories of 2010 is on track to continue through 2011 after the filly Lisa's Booby Trap won her first start of the year at Finger Lakes on Tuesday.

Churchill Downs has announced that overnight purses will be increased 10 percent, effective when racing resumes Thursday at the Louisville, Ky., track.

Purses for overnight races – which include overnight stakes, allowance, maiden special weight, claiming, and maiden-claiming events – will rise by an approximate blended average of $3,150 per race.

The $40,000 Arapahoe Park Sprint in Colorado on Sunday has drawn invaders from Arizona, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Shivers Me should go favored in the six-furlong race that drew six starters, including recent Turf Paradise allowance winner Trip the General.

Shivers Me is in from New Mexico, where he has won two stakes since last September. He took the $40,000 New Mexico State Fair by a nose going a 1 1/8 miles at the Downs at Albuquerque, and in more recent times won the $50,000 Inaugural Handicap at SunRay Park.