DEL MAR, Calif. – The Pacific Classic field, already abbreviated, might end up even shorter than initially expected as trainer Bob Baffert on Monday said that Roman Rosso was his only certain runner in the Grade 1, $1 million race Saturday at Del Mar.

Baffert worked Mubtaahij on Monday, and though he went five furlongs in 1:00.60, Baffert was far from certain to enter Mubtaahij in the Pacific Classic. Mubtaahij missed the San Diego Handicap earlier this meet after spiking a temperature, and Monday’s drill was only his third since returning to the work tab.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Six decades after he bought his first racehorse, Jed Cohen, 85, is in the midst of an unprecedented period of success. In the last 18 months, the stable he operates with his family has won 16 stakes in California and Kentucky.

“It’s hard for me to believe,” Cohen said over the weekend. “I’ve been at it a long time and I’ve never had this experience.”

There may be more trips to the winner’s circle for Cohen in the next three weeks. Cohen and his family are expected to have runners in five stakes at Del Mar, including three in the upcoming weekend.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Enola Gray, a six-time stakes winner, has been retired and will be bred in 2019, trainer Phil D’Amato said Sunday.

A 5-year-old mare, Enola Gray won 7 of 12 starts and earned $585,100, all for owner and breeder Nick Alexander. She won all her stakes in California and from 2016 to 2017. Enola Gray started once this year, finishing fourth in the Grade 2 Royal Heroine Stakes for fillies and mares at Santa Anita in April. She had three workouts in July, but was removed from training in recent weeks.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Dan Blacker arrived at Del Mar in mid-July in search of his first career stakes win.

When the season reached the halfway point last weekend, Blacker had two stakes wins – on opposite sides of the state.

Double Touch was the upset winner of the Wickerr Stakes at 29-1 at Del Mar on July 22. Last Saturday, Ritzy A.P. won the Joseph Grace Handicap at Santa Rosa as the 4-5 favorite.

Blacker will be after his first win in a graded stakes when Double Touch starts in a crowded field in Sunday’s Grade 2 Del Mar Mile on turf.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Tiz Breathtaking has emerged as a top 2-year-old filly for trainer Mike Doyle and owner Windhaven Farms, as she swept by the field to win the Shady Well Stakes on Aug. 4 by 1 3/4 lengths over Sav.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – With Queen’s Plate and Prince of Wales Stakes winner Wonder Gadot making her next start in the Grade 1, $1.25-million Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 25, a new Canadian-bred 3-year-old will become a classic winner in the third and final jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown – the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday afternoon.

As of Monday morning, there were eight horses probable for Saturday’s Breeders’ Stakes, which will be at 1 1/2 miles over Woodbine’s turf course.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Jockeys Flavien Prat, who leads the standings, and Alonso Quinonez have been suspended three days – from Friday through Sunday – for causing interference in separate races at Del Mar last Thursday.

The suspensions will not prohibit the jockeys from riding in graded stakes this weekend. If Prat or Quinonez rides more than one graded stakes on a program, they will have to serve an additional day of suspension, likely later this month. Prat is likely to have multiple mounts in graded stakes on Saturday’s program.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The 3-year-old filly Ollie’s Candy will have her fourth different jockey in as many races in Saturday’s Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks.

Tyler Baze will replace an injured Corey Nakatani on a filly considered a leading contender in the $300,000 race at 1 1/8 miles on turf. The jockey change was necessitated when Nakatani sustained a back injury in a two-horse spill on Aug. 4. 

The veteran Nakatani protested to doctors when told he needed to recuperate, the jockey’s son and agent, Matt Nakatani, told trainer William Morey.

Joel Rosario will ride Gronkowski in the Travers Stakes and on Sunday he got to test-drive the Belmont Stakes runner-up, guiding him through a five-furlong drill in 1:01.32 over the Saratoga main track.

Gronkowski worked in company with the 3-year-old maiden Allured. Gronkowski, wearing blinkers and on the outside, went three furlongs in 36.99 seconds then got a last quarter in 24.33 and galloped out six furlongs in 1:13.79 and seven furlongs in 1:26.94.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Bill Mott is pointing Elate and Hofburg to Grade 1 stakes here in less than two weeks. On Sunday, he put the two in company for what would be their most important workouts for their respective races.

Though Hofburg will be credited with the faster time - five furlongs in 1:00.54 - it was Elate [1:00.71] who was clearly the stronger of the two in the move conducted over the Oklahoma training track.