SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Honor Code got to stretch his legs a bit when breezing an easy and slow half-mile in 52.49 seconds at his regular training time of 6:30 a.m. Saturday at Saratoga. Honor Code picked up the pace a little once passing the wire, galloping out five furlongs in 1:06.04 before pulling up six panels in 1:18.33.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Vyjack, entered and scratched on two occasions at the meet, will try to make it to the starting gate in Monday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Bernard Baruch Handicap on closing day.

Vyjack was entered in the Lure Stakes on Aug. 8 and scratched because owner David Wilkenfeld wanted to run him in the Grade 2 Fourstardave a week later. Vyjack was scratched out of that race because he developed a temperature the night before.

Vyjack has twice run on turf, finishing third behind King Kreesa in the Poker and in the Forbidden Apple at Belmont Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though he realizes he may not win his third consecutive meet title, jockey Javier Castellano believes this is his best Saratoga season ever.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – There have been some really impressive 2-year-old fillies at this meet, and if pedigree or purchase price mean anything, we should see another on Sunday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Upstart came out of his fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Travers Stakes well enough that trainer Rick Violette is planning to run him back in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx on Sept. 19.

“I’m giving him every opportunity,” Violette said Friday at Saratoga. “He came out of the race pretty good. I’ll breeze him next weekend, and if we like what we see, we’ll go.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Jockey Mike Luzzi was arrested Thursday by Saratoga Springs police and faces two felony and two misdemeanor charges as the result of an altercation he had with his wife, Tania.

Luzzi, 45, was arrested at 12:33 a.m. Thursday and charged with criminal mischief in the third degree (felony), strangulation (felony), assault in the third degree/intent physical injury (misdemeanor), and endangering the welfare of a child (misdemeanor).

DEL MAR, Calif. – Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, has started a light exercise program of walking at the Pegasus Training and Equine Rehabilitation Center in Redmond, Wash., the first stage in a planned comeback after injuring his hip in the Charles Town Classic in West Virginia in April.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said Shared Belief is walking a couple of times a day and is being exercised on an AquaCiser, which allows him to walk underwater.

“He seems to be coming along well,” Hollendorfer said Thursday.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Triple Crown winner American Pharoah is scheduled to be paraded in the paddock and on the racetrack between races Sunday.

American Pharoah jogged on the main track Friday, his first exercise since a second-place finish to Keen Ice in the Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 29. American Pharoah is expected to make his next and final start Oct. 31 in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland.

American Pharoah will be walked in the paddock and onto the racetrack midway through Sunday’s 10-race program, which begins at 2 p.m. Pacific.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Baruta has been a busy mare at Del Mar this summer, winning an allowance race in the first week of the meet in July and finishing second in the Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap on Aug. 16.

There is time for one more start and a potential first stakes win Sunday in the $80,000 CERF Stakes for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

“I hope I’m not running her in one race too many, but she seems like she’s good right now,” trainer Richard Mandella said.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Jeff Mullins had an ideal start to the Del Mar summer meeting, winning with four of his first seven starters July 16-18. Mullins could finish the meeting Monday with an equally strong flourish.

Rockin Bayou is the stable’s hope Monday in the $300,000 Del Mar Futurity, the top race of the summer meeting for 2-year-olds. American Pharoah won the 2014 Del Mar Futurity.