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.

Trainer Tim Hamm reported Wednesday that Dayoutoftheoffice, the 2020 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies runner-up who was expected to be among the key contenders for Saturday’s Grade 1 Test, has been retired.  Hamm owns Dayoutoftheoffice with Siena Farm.

My Sassenach, whose 8 1/4-length romp in the $100,000 Desert Vixen at Gulfstream Park on Saturday was her first win, will run back in the next race for fillies in the Florida Sire Stakes series for 2-year-olds, but trainer David Braddy is making no commitments beyond that.

My Sassenach ran second in her lone start before the six-furlong Desert Vixen. The Uncaptured filly, a $152,000 purchase earlier this year by the Champions Equine of Michael Sucher, now proceeds to the $200,000 Susan’s Girl, a seven-furlong race Aug. 28.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Chiefswood Stables general manager Robert Landry said a final decision has yet to be made regarding whether Weyburn will contest the $1 million Queen’s Plate here Aug. 22.

Trained by Jimmy Jerkens, Weyburn took the Grade 3 Gotham at Aqueduct in March before ending up fourth there in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial on April 3. Following a break, he was second to Mandaloun in the June 13 Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth. The son of Pioneerof the Nile is coming off a fading fourth-place finish in last Saturday’s Grade 2 Jim Dandy at Saratoga.

HENDERSON, Ky. – The two biggest weekends of the summer at Ellis Park are just ahead.

Seven previews toward the rich Kentucky Downs meet will be run over the Ellis turf this coming weekend, while the richest program of the 31-day meet is set for Aug. 15.

Lineups are already set for Saturday, when three $100,000 previews and the $60,000 Tri-State will be run. Sunday will bring four more previews – the $125,000 preview toward the Kentucky Turf Cup and three for $100,000 apiece.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – An interesting showdown could be in the offing as Jackie’s Warrior, the top 3-year-old around one turn, and Life Is Good, the undefeated 3-year-old who was sidelined by injury in March, are both targeting the Grade 1, $600,000 H. Allen Jerkens here on Aug. 28.

Jackie’s Warrior splashed his way to a 7 1/4-length victory in Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Amsterdam Stakes, dueling with and running away from Drain the Clock, who finished second. Drain the Clock had defeated Jackie’s Warrior by one length in the Grade 1 Woody Stephens at Belmont on June 5.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Bob Baffert was expected to ship Illumination on Tuesday from California to Saratoga where she is scheduled to run in the Grade 1, $500,000 Test Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on Saturday.

Illumination will represent Baffert’s first starter at a New York Racing Association track since a judge three weeks ago overturned a ban NYRA placed on him in May following the positive post-race test of Medina Spirit in this year’s Kentucky Derby.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A third of the way through the Saratoga meet and the biggest surprise may be the name atop the trainers’ standings.

Mike Maker won two races on four of the five cards conducted here last week, giving him 14 wins through the first 14 days of the 40-day meet. That’s six more than both Todd Pletcher and Steve Asmussen and seven more than Chad Brown and Brad Cox.

Maker’s horses have earned $932,206, putting him second in that department behind Brown ($1,014,791). Maker’s 47 starters are second only to Brown’s 54.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Peter Miller had six wins at Del Mar from Thursday to Sunday to take a commanding lead in the trainers’ standings. Miller has won 10 races, well clear of Bob Baffert ,who is second with five wins.

After the first two weeks of the meeting, Miller had 4 wins from 33 starters. He won with 6 of 21 runners last week. Miller leads all trainers with 54 starters at the meet.

While Miller plans to remain active, he does not believe he can maintain last week’s level of success.