ARCADIA, Calif. – Run Away, a winner of three sprint stakes as a 2-year-old last year, will start around two turns for the first time in Sunday’s Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes for 3-year-olds at Santa Anita.

The decision to start Run Away in the $100,000 Affirmed Stakes at 1 1/16 miles comes after the colt was comprehensively beaten in his last two starts – a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Bob Hope Stakes at Del Mar last November and a sixth in the Chick Lang Stakes at Pimlico on a sloppy track May 19.

ELMONT, N.Y. – After toiling on dirt to begin her career, Mom’s On Strike has steadily developed into a top-flight mare on turf. On Friday, she will try to enter the upper echelon of the division when she meets Sistercharlie and seven others in the Grade 2, $600,000 New York Stakes at Belmont Park.

The New York, for fillies and mares at 1 1/4 miles, is the richest race on the 11-race card that includes four other stakes races. First post for the Belmont Stakes Eve program is 12:50 p.m. Eastern.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Unique Bella may be racing in a resort town near you this summer.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is targeting the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on July 29 for Unique Bella after the 4-year-old filly’s impressive win in Saturday’s Grade 1 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita.

In the winner’s circle Saturday, Hollendorfer mentioned a race at Saratoga as another possibility this summer. The most prestigious race for older fillies and mares at that meeting is the Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes on Aug. 25.

ELMONT, N.Y. - That Hofburg will compete in two legs of the Triple Crown is more a function of the horse than his trainer.

Having not made his 3-year-old debut until March 3, Hofburg was considered more of a summertime 3-year-old than a spring classic campaigner by his Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Fault, the winner of three consecutive graded stakes at Santa Anita this year, suffered an injury to a hind leg during a gallop on Sunday and may have run her last race.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said Fault was diagnosed with a non-displaced condylar fracture in her left hind leg that will require the insertion of stabilizing screws. An operation is scheduled for Monday.

“She’s comfortable,” D’Amato said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The morning before Triple Crown hopeful Justify is scheduled to have his final workout in preparation for the Belmont Stakes, it was a projected Belmont longshot, Free Drop Billy, that tuned up Sunday at Churchill Downs with a five-furlong breeze in 59 1/5 seconds.

Traveling over a freshly harrowed track that produced fast times, he went quickly early, covering his first quarter mile in 23 seconds before slowing his pace somewhat with a 36 1/5 split over his final three furlongs. He was timed galloping out six furlongs in 1:12 4/5 by Churchill Downs clockers.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Significant Form heads a strong three-horse entry from trainer Chad Brown in Thursday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Wonder Again Stakes at Belmont Park.

Thursday’s card is the first day of what the New York Racing Association bills as a three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival that concludes with next Saturday’s rich Belmont Stakes card. From Thursday through Saturday, Belmont will host 18 stakes worth $9.4 million in purses.

ELMONT, N.Y. _ Blended Citizen will be the only one of the expected 11 or 12 starters in the Belmont Stakes with a previous start over the Belmont Park main track. On Saturday, he became the fourth - and probably final - prospective Belmont starter to get a workout over the main track as well.

Blended Citizen, who won the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes here three weeks ago, breezed five furlongs in 1:00.88, according to Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Welsch. Blended Citizen, with Mike Luzzi aboard, worked at 12:50 p.m., 40 minutes before the first race on the Belmont card.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Gronkowski passed the audition.

After his second solid workout in a week, the European import was confirmed by trainer Chad Brown as a starter for next Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes.

Gronkowski, with Jose Ortiz up, worked inside of Engage, who is pointing to the Grade 2 Woody Stephens, for the second straight week. Gronkowski broke off about three-quarters of a length in front and led Engage through an opening quarter in 25.90 seconds as the two drew on even terms.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – On a Saturday morning at Churchill Downs when Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Justify had a maintenance training day with a gallop, one of his rivals for next Saturday’s Belmont Stakes, Tenfold, got a little more serious, breezing five furlongs in 1:01.60 over a fast track.