DEL MAR, Calif. – Tatters to Riches, the stylish winner of a maiden race in his debut at Del Mar on July 29, had a daylong road trip on Tuesday.

Trainer Jeff Mullins shipped the colt to the nearby San Luis Rey Downs training center for a half-mile workout in 47 seconds flat. Mullins said he chose to work Tatters to Riches at San Luis Rey Downs as opposed to Del Mar.

“It’s been loose and deep,” he said of Del Mar’s main track. “We’ve had a few soft-tissue injuries.

“We shipped him out yesterday morning and brought him back.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – From New York to England to Kentucky, Arawak has been held in the highest regard by trainer Wesley Ward in recent months.

The traveling continues this week. On Tuesday, Arawak arrived in California for Saturday’s Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes for 2-year-olds at Del Mar. The $200,000 race at 6 1/2 furlongs gives Ward a chance to prove the colt can race in a vital summer stakes for juveniles.

“I have a hunch he’ll like Del Mar,” Ward said on Wednesday morning. “We’ll take a shot.”

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - A field of 13 has been entered for Saturday’s 35^th running of the Arlington Million.

From the rail out, with riders, the horses entered to run are Oak Brook (Santo Sanjur), Oscar Nominated (Florent Geroux), Enterprising (Corey Lanerie), Ghost Hunter (Edwin Gonzalez), Deauville (Ryan Moore), Fanciful Angel (Daniel Muscutt), The Pizza Man (Irad Ortiz), Kasaqui (James Graham), Scottish (William Buick), Beach Patrol (Joel Rosario), Divisidero (Julien Leparoux), Ascend (Jose Ortiz), and Mekhtaal (Frankie Dettori).

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Mark Casse confirmed Monday the news most had expected was coming - that his 2-year-old champion Classic Empire would not make the Grade 1 Travers here on Aug. 26 and would instead be pointed for the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 23.

Keeneland Racecourse will raise its takeout for the October meet from 16 percent to 17.5 percent on win, place, and show wagers and from 19 percent to 22 percent on all other bets, the maximum allowed under state law, Keeneland officials confirmed on Tuesday.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Arrogate put in a serious piece of work on Tuesday morning at Del Mar in preparation for the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 19, going seven furlongs in 1:25.20, after which trainer Bob Baffert said Arrogate is “acting like his old self.”

Arrogate is one of two horses Baffert has under consideration for the Pacific Classic, along with Collected. Baffert had a busy morning Tuesday, as he also worked American Anthem and West Coast for upcoming starts at Saratoga.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Oscar Performance, the likely Secretariat Stakes favorite over an expected six rivals, has not won two Grade 1 races and is just shy of $1.5 million because he is an especially limited horse. But Oscar Performance is a front-running type who definitely benefited from making easy leads last out in the Grade 1 Belmont Derby and two starts ago in the Pennine Ridge Stakes.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It probably will not be enough of an advantage to land either in the winner’s circle, but Arlington Million starter Oak Brook and Beverly D. runner Prado’s Sweet Ride are the only horses in those Grade 1 races Saturday at Arlington who will get to walk to the paddock from the stall they’ve inhabited all summer.

Those two are the entire home team in the three Grade 1 races Saturday at Arlington. Pre-entries for the Million, the Beverly D., the Grade 1 Secretariat, and the American St. Leger came last Friday, and the final fields were to be drawn Tuesday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Lady Eli, the winner of the Grade 1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga during opening weekend, returned to the work tab Sunday, breezing a half-mile in 49.04 seconds over the Oklahoma turf course.

Lady Eli went in company with Antonoe. The two were head-and-head throughout a first quarter-mile in 25.16 seconds and a second quarter in 23.88.

“Both horses looked terrific,” trainer Chad Brown said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When Weekend Hideaway goes postward as one of the choices in Friday’s Tale of the Cat Stakes, it will mark the sixth consecutive summer that the veteran has competed at Saratoga.