ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Phil Serpe said a decision has yet to be made regarding whether Queen’s Plate winner Safe Conduct will return to Ontario for the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes over 1 3/16 miles on dirt on Sept. 14 at Fort Erie.

Miss Alacrity, who likely would have been favored in Friday’s Seeking the Ante Stakes for New York-breds, will not run in the race, her trainer Wesley Ward said on Tuesday.

Miss Alacrity was one of six 2-year-old fillies entered in the $200,000 Seeking the Ante, scheduled as the second race on a card with six races restricted to New York-breds. She was coming into the race off an open-company win in the Colleen Stakes on the Monmouth Park turf as the favorite, and had won her first start against New York-bred maidens by 10 lengths, running in a race at Belmont at May.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Although she’s entered in Tuesday’s mile and 70-yard Cathryn Sophia Stakes at Parx Racing, Vequist was going to return from a six-month layoff in a seven-furlong allowance dash here Thursday.

But Vequist will not run in either race after coming up with another issue that has ended her abbreviated 3-year-old campaign and put her racing career in doubt.

“She had a minor setback coming out of her last work and will be off for rest of the year,” trainer Butch Reid confirmed Monday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – This is the kind of summer it’s been at Saratoga for jockey Luis Saez: On Aug. 13, he was named on two first-time starters in a New York-bred maiden race. His first call was Makin My Move, who was three deep on the also-eligible list. When she didn’t get into the race, Saez rode his second call, Sue Ellen Mishkin, to a 7 1/4-length victory.

A week later, when the maiden race was offered again, Saez rode Makin My Move to a 12 1/2-length debut victory.

In early spring, after Going Global had won two stakes in her first two starts in the country, trainer Phil D’Amato set a summer goal of winning the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks with the Irish-bred filly.

Going Global won her fifth stakes of the year as the 7-5 favorite in the $302,000 Del Mar Oaks on Saturday, closing from fifth of nine to win by a length.

The Grade 3 Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar was run in early August last year as a prep for a Kentucky Derby postponed from May to September because of the pandemic.

This summer, the $100,000 Shared Belief Stakes at a mile is back in its familiar position in late August, and once again could be in the national spotlight for a significantly different reason.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – You can never have too many good 2-year-olds in the barn. Just ask Todd Pletcher, who trains the likely favorite for the Grade 1 Hopeful in the undefeated Wit, and this past weekend sent out three more juveniles to win their maiden at first asking, including the ultra-impressive My Prankster.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Jockeys Tyler Baze, Emily Ellingwood, Cesar Ortega, and Tiago Pereira were briefly hospitalized Sunday after escaping serious injuries in a frightening seven-horse spill in Sunday’s seventh race at Del Mar.

Baze and Ortega have chosen to rest in coming days and weeks, their agents said Monday. Pereira was scheduled to meet with a doctor Monday or Tuesday for further examination of a hip.

None of the horses involved in the incident appeared to suffer injuries, according to a track official.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Record-breaking handle on Saturday’s Pacific Classic program, combined with strong business in recent weeks, has led Del Mar officials to raise expectations for total handle at the current summer meeting and hint that a purse increase is possible for the fall Del Mar meet and next year’s summer meet.

Saturday’s 11-race program had an all-sources handle of $36,024,030, a track record for a non-Breeders’ Cup program. The previous mark of $25.8 million for a non-Breeders’ Cup day was set on Pacific Classic Day in 2018.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Search Results, the Grade 1 Acorn winner and Kentucky Oaks runner-up, will be put away for the remainder of the year and be pointed to a 4-year-old campaign in 2022, trainer Chad Brown said over the weekend.