SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Oct. 31 is the intended target for the top three finishers from Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga. How that trio gets to that $5 million race still is to be determined.

Honor Code, who ran down Liam’s Map in the final jump to win the $1.25 million Whitney – thus earning a fees-paid berth in the Classic – could go in either the Grade 2, $400,000 Kelso at a mile or the Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup at 1 1/4 miles, both Oct. 3 at Belmont Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer David Duggan was fined $1,500 for the finding of the medication methylprednisolone, a corticosteroid known under the trade name Depo-Medrol used to treat inflammation as well as allergies, in the horse Yabuquiva, who won her maiden in the ninth race at Belmont Park on May 6.

The fine was reduced from $2,500 because Duggan waived his right of appeal.

Yabuquiva was disqualified from first and ordered unplaced. Her owner, MigJim Stable, had to forfeit the $19,200 in first-place purse money.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – She’s All Ready, a New York-bred daughter of Girolamo, opened eyes Friday with a front-running, 8 1/4-length victory. She ran 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:04.63 and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 72.

Jim Ryerson, who trains She’s All Ready for Michael Salerno’s Nirvana Stable, said he wasn’t surprised that she won but was surprised by how authoritatively she won.

“She’s always been fast, expected her to run well, but how do you expect one to run like that?” Ryerson said. “And I love the way she galloped out.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Graham Motion will be well represented in several upcoming stakes at Saratoga, including both graded events next weekend for 2-year-olds.

Motion will run Lookout Sister in the Grade 2 Adirondack for 2-year-old fillies on Saturday and Mid Life Crisis in Sunday’s Grade 2 Saratoga Special for colts and geldings.

Both horses were debut winners at Delaware Park in July, and both worked Saturday at Saratoga, going five furlongs in 1:01.77 in company with each other. Lookout Sister made up about a length in the drill.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In the end, trainer Todd Pletcher only went with one runner, Liam’s Map, in the Grade 1, $1.25 million Whitney on Saturday.

In looking ahead to the $600,000 Woodward, the other Grade 1 stakes race for older horses at the meet, Pletcher is already considering having multiple runners. The Woodward is run Sept. 5.

As expected, Pletcher scratched Coach Inge, the Brooklyn Handicap winner, from the Whitney and said Saturday he is leaning toward running him in the Woodward. The Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 22 also is under consideration.

A big field appears likely for the 33rd Arlington Million after 14 older horses were pre-entered for the 1 1/4-mile turf race Saturday at Arlington Park in suburban Chicago.

Pre-entries for the Grade 1 Million and the three other major turf races that comprise the International Festival of Racing were released Saturday. Ten fillies and mares were pre-entered in the Grade 1, $700,000 Beverly D.; nine 3-year-olds in the Grade 1, $450,000 Secretariat; and 11 older horses in the Grade 3, $350,000 American St. Leger.

DEL MAR, Calif. – In January, Hard Aces joined trainer John Sadler’s California stable with the goal of starting in the major stakes on the circuit for older horses. The acquisition proved to be successful when Hard Aces won the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 27.

Sadler recently added another runner for the older horse division to his stable in Class Leader, the winner of the Sir Barton Stakes at Pimlico in 2014. Class Leader is scheduled to make his California debut in the $1 million Pacific Classic on Aug. 22.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Spanish Queen, the winner of the Grade 1 American Oaks at Santa Anita on May 30, will miss the $300,000 Del Mar Oaks on Aug. 15 because of a bruised foot.

Trainer Richard Baltas said on Saturday that there is concern that the injury could be more serious. Baltas said Spanish Queen will undergo a nuclear scan that can reveal more subtle injuries. The bruised foot was detected after Spanish Queen worked on turf Aug. 2.

“She was sore the next day,” Baltas said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – In the summers of her youth, she hung around the Saratoga barn of Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens, for whom her father, Bill, worked. Her great-uncle on her mother’s side was the legendary trainer Charlie Whittingham.

So, it wasn’t a stretch that Erinn Higgins would find her calling on the racetrack. It is, however, a bit of a surprise that Higgins would find herself in the role of steward.

On Monday, Higgins, 27, will become the first woman to serve in the stewards’ stand at Saratoga.

DEL MAR, Calif. – American Pharoah, the Triple Crown winner, merely jogged again Saturday morning at Del Mar, the second straight day he has jogged since returning to the track following his victory last Sunday in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

American Pharoah walked Monday, flew later that morning from New Jersey to California, and walked here from Tuesday through Thursday. He jogged Friday and Saturday.