ELMONT, N.Y. – Catholic Boy, winner of the Grade 2 With Anticipation Stakes at Saratoga, will skip Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Pilgrim at Belmont Park and could train up to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf.

John Panagot, racing manager for Robert LaPenta, owner of Catholic Boy, said the horse vanned from South Florida to Saratoga and back and that another trip in four weeks “is probably not best for the horse.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If Honorable Duty isn’t careful, he might wind up in world-class events such as the Pegasus Cup and Dubai World Cup.

Brendan Walsh has mapped out a three-race schedule for Honorable Duty to conclude 2017, and although reluctant to get too far ahead of himself, the Irish-born trainer is hoping what happens in the next few months will result in new horizons for his stable star.

“He’s been a great horse for us,” said Walsh, who trains Honorable Duty, a 5-year-old gelding, for the DARRS Inc. of David Ross.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Phil Serpe is considering running his 7-year-old New York-bred millionaire Weekend Hideaway in Saturday’s Grade 1 Vosburgh at Belmont Park.

One factor Serpe is weighing in his decision is whether he wants to run in a race that includes El Deal, a horse trained by Jorge Navarro.

Navarro has become the subject of much scrutiny since a video appeared of him and one of his owners bragging about potential impropriety and screaming obscenities while at Monmouth Park and watching a horse win a race trained by Navarro’s brother Marcial at Gulfstream Park.

Trainer Armando De la cerda suddenly and somewhat unexpectly had some doors open for Kroy after the red-hot 3-year-old made a dazzling main-track debut at Gulfstream in Sunday’s Bear’s Den Stakes, a race originally carded at 7 1/2 furlongs on the turf but moved to the dirt due to rain.

Kroy led throughout under jockey Emisael Jaramillo to register a 1 1/2-length victory over Zipping, completing seven panels over a track upgraded from sloppy to good in an eye-catching 1:21.69, earning a 90 Beyer Speed Figure in the process.

Trainer Todd Pletcher has started his annual pilgrimage to South Florida, having recently shipped approximately 30 horses to his winter base at Palm Beach Downs.

Among those now in Florida is Channel Cat, who at Gulfstream Park won Saturday’s 11th race, a maiden special weight for 2-year-olds on the turf, following the disqualification of Speed Franco.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Get Jets and Fourstar Crook, winners of the two stakes for New York-breds Sunday at Belmont Park, will target open-company stakes for their next engagements, according to their trainers.

Get Jets, who beat Call Provision by a nose in the $125,000 Ashley T. Cole, will skip the Mohawk Stakes for statebreds here Oct. 21 and instead aim for the Grade 3, $200,000 Red Smith Handicap on Nov. 11 at Aqueduct. The Red Smith is run at 1 3/8 miles.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Rodrigo Ubillo said it will be “a dream” to participate in this year’s Breeders’ Cup with Highway Star, who earned her shot in the Filly and Mare Sprint on Nov. 4 with a neck victory in the Grade 2 Gallant Bloom Handicap.

In reality, Highway Star earned her Breeders’ Cup chance before Sunday, but her connections wanted to see another good performance before committing to run. Highway Star wore down Carina Mia by a neck for her third graded stakes victory of the year to go along with a head loss to By the Moon in the Grade 1 Ballerina on Aug. 26 at Saratoga.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Sporting Chance, winner of the Grade 1 Hopeful at Saratoga, will be sidelined the remainder of the year after having a chip removed from a knee, trainer D. Wayne Lukas said Monday.

Lukas was targeting the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity on Oct. 7 at Keeneland and potentially the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile on Nov. 4 at Del Mar for Sporting Chance, who had won two of his first three starts and was among the leaders of the 2-year-old division.

Jimmy Barnes, the longtime assistant to Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, was released Friday from the hospital, where he had been since suffering a fractured pelvis in a morning training accident Sept. 17 at Santa Anita.

Barnes was unseated from a stable pony in an incident Baffert described as a “freaky thing.” Baffert said the pony lost his footing.

Barnes, 58, was resting at home over the weekend, according to his wife, Dana, an exercise rider for Baffert. He is expected to remain at home for a few weeks before returning to work.

At a time of year when many ambitions for 2-year-olds focus on races around two turns, there are more modest goals for Candy Crew.

Candy Crew won a six-furlong maiden race in his debut Sunday at Los Alamitos, drawing off in the final furlong to prevail by 3 3/4 lengths in 1:10.59. Owners Pete and Kosta Hronis and trainer John Sadler intend to keep Candy Crew sprinting.

“He’s not bred to go on,” Sadler said. “I think he’ll go up to six or seven furlongs.”