DEL MAR, Calif. - The 2-year-old colt Corniche has been grabbing attention since April, when he sold for $1.5 million at the Ocala Breeders’ Sales sprint auction of 2-year-olds in training as the most expensive hip of the Florida auction.

The attention has continued on the track.

Corniche won his debut in a maiden special weight race at 5 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar on Saturday in a manner that left Hall of Fame jockey Mike Smith hoping the colt can start in races such as the Breeder’ Cup Juvenile here Nov. 5.

DEL MAR, Calif. - After four stakes wins on synthetic, dirt, and turf courses, None Above the Law will have a turf campaign this fall on the strength of his win in Saturday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Derby.

None Above the Law has won four stakes this year at distances ranging from seven furlongs on dirt to the $254,000 Del Mar Derby at 1 1/8 miles on turf.

In coming months, turf races at 1 1/8 miles for 3-year-olds such as the Grade 2 Twilight Derby at Santa Anita on Oct. 31 and the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby on Nov. 27 are planned, trainer Peter Miller said Sunday morning.

Happy Saver, the runner-up to Max Player in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup, will train up to the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 6, trainer Todd Pletcher told the New York Racing Association publicity department Sunday morning.

Pletcher felt Happy Saver was bottled up behind a slow pace in the Jockey Club, but that when he got out, he made a decent run to get second over Forza Di Oro.

Trainer Bill Mott found a potential stakes performer in his barn that he probably didn’t know he had when Baby Yoda won a first-level allowance race Saturday by 4 1/4 lengths, running 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:14.33 and earning a whopping 114 Beyer Speed Figure, the highest figure earned by any horse in training this year.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - War Like Goddess got her first Grade 1 victory when she won Saturday’s $600,000 Flower Bowl at Saratoga. Now she will aim for an Eclipse Award when she makes her next start in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 6.

Sandwiched neatly around the featured Mint Million, a pair of $500,000 stakes for 2-year-olds are among the supporting events on a terrific Labor Day card at Kentucky Downs in south-central Kentucky.

The Aristocrat Juvenile Fillies and the Kentucky Downs Juvenile Mile are the co-features that help bring the 11-race Monday program to an end. The one-turn mile races offer purses of $500,000 each as bookends to the final pick three of the day.

Jockey Trevor McCarthy has left California for his home in Maryland after a stay of more than three months, and plans to take a break from racing to receive treatment on an injured ankle, he said on Friday.

McCarthy said he was not sure when or where he would return to riding, pending an appointment with a doctor in New York next week.

“I have a long-term injury that is catching up to me,” he said. “It’s starting to bother me. My left ankle has a tear in it. I’ll take some time to get that fixed.

“I’m pretty sure I’ll need an operation.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Multiple Grade 1 winner Raging Bull is among the 23 nominees to the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, which headlines a blockbuster Sept. 18-19 weekend at Woodbine.

Victorious in the Grade 1 Maker’s Mark Mile at Keeneland in April, Raging Bull is among the four nominated to the $1 million turf event by trainer Chad Brown. Brown also nominated Grade 2-winning mare Blowout, multiple stakes winner Flavius, and Value Proposition, who finished third behind Flavius in the Lure Stakes on Aug. 7 at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Wit, dominant winner of the Grade 3 Sanford, and High Oak, dominant winner of the Grade 2 Saratoga Special, head a field of 11 juveniles entered Friday for Monday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Hopeful Stakes, which brings down the curtain on the Saratoga meet.

Both Wit and High Oak have won both of their starts. Wit, trained by Todd Pletcher for Mike Repole, has been targeting this race since he won the Sanford here by eight lengths on July 17. He drew post 6 and will be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – First Captain will wear blinkers for the first time and have jockey Joel Rosario aboard when he makes his next start, in the Grade 1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 25, trainer Shug McGaughey said Friday.

First Captain, winner of the Grade 3 Dwyer Stakes and the third-place finisher in the Curlin Stakes on July 31, worked in those blinkers and under Rosario on Friday morning, going a half-mile in 46.74 seconds over the Saratoga main track, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch.