SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Dreams of Tomorrow, a winner of two straight allowance races, will step back into stakes company when he runs in Saturday’s $120,000 Lure Stakes for horses who have not won a graded stakes in 2021. The Lure is at one mile on the turf.

Dreams of Tomorrow is trained by Shug McGaughey, who trained Lure, a two-time turf champion.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Bolshoi Ballet, winner of the Grade 1 Belmont Derby last month at Belmont Park, has made a return trip from Ireland to head an 11-horse field entered Wednesday for Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Saratoga Derby Invitational.

The Saratoga Derby is run at 1 3/16 miles and around a tighter-turned course than the 1 1/4-mile Belmont Derby, run around the wide, sweeping turns of Belmont Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1 winner Code of Honor could make his return to the races in the Grade 3, $250,000 Iselin Stakes on Aug. 21 at Monmouth Park, trainer Shug McGaughey said Wednesday.

Code of Honor, the 2019 Travers and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner, has not raced since he finished fifth in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational at Gulfstream Park on Jan 23. He was given time off for bone remodeling issues and he returned to the work tab in June at Niall Brennan’s Farm in Ocala, Fla.

Venetian Harbor was second in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles at Del Mar last Sunday in what is expected to be her only start of the summer meeting.

This fall, trainer Richard Baltas is likely to point Venetian Harbor to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at seven furlongs or the BC Distaff at 1 1/8 miles. Both races are at Del Mar on Nov. 6.

Selecting a race will not be an easy decision, Baltas said on Wednesday.

“That’s a tough one,” he said. “I think she can get a mile, and a mile and a sixteenth on a fast track.”

The first three weeks of the Del Mar summer meeting have not been kind to trainer Phil D’Amato.

Through Sunday, D’Amato had 1 win from 31 runners, far below his normal productivity. Last summer at Del Mar, D’Amato had 20 wins from 83 starters, and was second in the trainers’ standings to Peter Miller, who had 28 wins.

“We’re definitely not where we want to be,” D’Amato said. “Things have been zigging and we’ve been zagging – bad posts and you name it.

Sword Zorro, winner of the Singletary Stakes at Santa Anita in April, will be trainer John Sadler’s lone starter in Sunday’s Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap for 3-year-olds on turf at Del Mar.

Sadler said on Wednesday that Rock Your World, the winner of the Santa Anita Derby in April, will be held out of the $150,000 La Jolla Handicap in favor of the Grade 2 Del Mar Derby on Sept. 4.

“He’s doing beautifully,” Sadler said. “We’re going to wait for a little more spacing for the Del Mar Derby.”

Trainer Wesley Ward has no shortage of 2-year-old turf sprinters, and he’ll take his time figuring out what comes next for the filly Miss Alacrity, who won the Miss Colleen Stakes by an easy 2 3/4 lengths Sunday at Monmouth.

Leader of the Band will be aimed toward the $150,000 Cathryn Sophia Stakes on Aug. 24 at Parx Racing and could get a look in the Grade 1 Cotillion there in September if she performs well.

Leader of the Band won her second race and first stakes when she swept to victory Saturday at Monmouth Park in the Grade 3, $250,000 Monmouth Oaks. Leader of the Band beat favored Edie Meeny Miny Mo by two lengths, her time of 1:43.44 for 1 1/16 miles on dirt producing a career-best 88 Beyer Speed Figure.

Three longshots on Sunday’s card at Monmouth yielded an unhittable early pick-five sequence, which has produced a two-day carryover of more than $200,000 into Friday’s six-race program.

The early pick five, which has a 50-cent minimum, covers races 2 through 6 on Friday’s card. The carryover pool stands at $201,341 and the sequence looks challenging. First post is 5 p.m. Eastern.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Tom Albertrani said Wednesday that plans are up in the air for the popular 8-year-old Sadler’s Joy, whose career earnings are approaching the $2.7 million mark. Sadler’s Joy hasn’t raced since finishing fourth in the Grand Couturier at Belmont in June.

“He’s here at Saratoga and we aren’t quite sure what we’ll do with him next,” said Albertrani. “We might try to get one or two more races out of him, try to find a couple of softer spots, perhaps a race like the John’s Call.