The 2-year-old season is in full swing at Gulfstream Park, with most local trainers having an eye squarely on the Florida Sire Series, which kicks off on Aug. 1 with the $100,000 Dr. Fager and Desert Vixen Stakes at six furlongs.

But some, like Antonio Sano, have loftier goals in mind, and are already making travel plans for Saratoga later this summer.

Sano has sent out four juveniles to break their maidens during the current session, including Papetu and Hara, who registered impressive maiden wins just 24 hours apart last week.

Keeper Ofthe Stars, who finished last of five in the Grade 3 Wilshire Stakes on June 20 at Santa Anita after winning the Grade 1 Gamely Stakes there May 25, may start at the end of the Del Mar summer meeting.

Trainer Jonathan Wong said he is considering the Grade 2 John Mabee Stakes for fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles on turf on Sept. 5.

“That’s one of the options,” Wong said. “We’ll freshen her up and run her at Del Mar.”

In the Wilshire Stakes at a mile on turf, Keeper Ofthe Stars was second early but faded from contention to finish 5 3/4 lengths behind Toinette.

Tizamagician, fourth in the Grade 3 Robert Lewis Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita in February, is a candidate for the $100,000 Runhappy Oceanside Stakes on July 10 at Del Mar.

Friday at Santa Anita, Tizamagician worked five furlongs in 1:00 in a tune-up for the Oceanside, which is run at a mile on turf for 3-year-olds.

Roy H, the champion sprinter of 2017 and 2018, has been retired and will have a second career as a stable pony, trainer Peter Miller said in a statement issued Thursday.

Roy H, 8, was in training in recent weeks when the decision was made to end his racing career. A gelding best known for winning the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Del Mar in 2017 and at Churchill Downs in 2018, Roy H won 10 of 23 starts and earned $3,139,765.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Celtic Striker, who won a match race in Thursday’s Easy Goer Stakes by 19 3/4 lengths over Sonneman, will target the Grade 3, $100,000 Peter Pan Stakes on July 16, opening day of the Saratoga meet.

The Peter Pan has typically been run in early May for 3-year-olds to use as a prep for the Belmont Stakes on the first Saturday in June. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Belmont was run June 20 and the Peter Pan could now be used as a prep for the Grade 1 Travers on Aug. 8.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Sir Winston, Tacitus, and Joevia, the top three-finishers from the 2019 Belmont Stakes, are all targeting next Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park.

On Friday, Sir Winston worked an easy half-mile in 50.90 seconds over the Belmont Park main track. Sir Winston is coming off a second-place finish behind Moretti in the Flat Out Stakes here on June 11.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – Vekoma, the dominant winner of the Grade 1 Carter Handicap here on June 6, will run back in next Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Runhappy Metropolitan Handicap, trainer George Weaver said Friday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keeneland Racecourse in Lexington will allow a limited number of owners and their associates to attend the races during the track’s five-day July meet, the track announced on Friday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The stop-and-start summer meet at Ellis Park in western Kentucky will begin Thursday with a limited number of spectators on hand and with purses sufficiently high to retain most of the circuit’s top horsemen.

Ellis will open with a four-day week (next Thursday through Sunday), after which Keeneland will run a five-day meet (July 8-12). Action then resumes July 17 at Ellis with Friday-Sunday weeks through Aug. 30.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Arguably the most unusual race meet in the 145-year history of Churchill Downs will come to a quiet end Sunday with a nine-race card featuring three straight allowances.

The 27-day meet began May 16 with the Kentucky Derby having been postponed from its original May 2 date to Sept. 5 and has been run without fans in the stands. That’s been perhaps the most notable aspect to six weeks of Churchill during the coronavirus pandemic.