DEL MAR, Calif. – Om would have been the favorite in the Grade 1 Del Mar Futurity on closing day Wednesday, but a minor setback will keep him out. As a result, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said he will take a shot in the race with Iron Fist, who is winless after two starts but was second to Om in a maiden race here Aug. 9.

“That was one of the considerations, that Dan Hendricks’s colt isn’t running,” Hollendorfer said, referring to Om. “The horse is doing well, and if we waited until Santa Anita’s fall meeting, that would be a long time to just keep training him.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer has the horse to beat Sunday in the $90,000 Tranquility Lake Stakes. Broken Sword was second Aug. 2 in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch but is eligible for this restricted stakes for older females since she hasn’t won a stakes race since Feb. 1.

In fact, Broken Sword has raced just once since Feb. 1 – in the Clement Hirsch. Hollendorfer gave her an extended vacation earlier this year after she finished fifth as the 6-5 favorite in the Grade 2 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita in January.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Shared Belief is back home at Golden Gate Fields, but his trainer and co-owner, Jerry Hollendorfer, was back at Del Mar on Friday morning, overseeing the final preparations for the horses he will run here during the last few days of the meet, as well as contemplating the fall campaign for Shared Belief.

CYPRESS, Calif. – California Chrome will need an ideal preparation in early September to be ready for his scheduled comeback in the $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing on Sept. 20.

That was the opinion of trainer Art Sherman after California Chrome worked five furlongs in 1:01 at Los Alamitos early Friday. The workout was California Chrome’s fourth since he returned to training in mid-July.

Trainer Larry Jones confirmed Wednesday that Cassatt, the winner of the Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks in her stakes debut Aug. 9, is still under consideration for the Grade 1, $1 million Cotillion at Parx on Sept. 20.

Cassatt, a strapping gray daughter of Tapit, is 3 for 3 this year. Owned by the Fox Hill Farm of Rick Porter, Cassatt has not been challenged in any of her 2014 starts but would be taking a big jump in class in the Cotillion.

California-based trainer Doug O’Neill has shipped Private Zone to Parx Racing for Monday’s Grade 3, $300,000 Turf Monster Handicap, a five-furlong turf sprint. The Turf Monster will be Private Zone’s first start since he finished second to Flat Out in the Grade 1 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct last November.

The Turf Monster will be the grass debut for Private Zone, the winner of the Grade 1 Vosburgh at Belmont last September.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – As expected, trainer Tony Dutrow entered Saratoga Special winner I Spent It on Thursday for Monday’s Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes. Also expected, however, is that I Spent It will scratch to run in the Grade 1 Champagne Stakes at Belmont on Oct. 4.

Dutrow wanted to enter the Hopeful to keep his options open in case something happens to expected favorite Competitive Edge.

I Spent It drew post 5, and Competitive Edge drew post 7.

Others entered in the Hopeful include Requite, Maratik, Signature Cat, and Sharm.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Darling Sky lived up to her connection’s expectations at Parx when she won her debut by a widening 7 1/4 lengths. Sunday, she’ll get the acid test when she runs in the Grade 1 Spinaway against eight fellow 2-year-old fillies at Saratoga.

Despite ducking in at the break, Darling Sky rolled to a debut win at Parx, covering five furlongs in 57.96 seconds and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 78.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – On the final Saturday of the 2013 Saratoga meet, trainer Shug McGaughey unveiled the first-time starter Honor Code, who rallied from 22 lengths back to win by 4 1/2 in the mud.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Kid Cruz, a winner of four stakes this year as a 3-year-old, came out of his fourth-place finish in last weekend’s Travers Stakes with a chip in his left knee, according to trainer Linda Rice.

Rice said Kid Cruz will have surgery to remove the chip Tuesday and then be pointed to a 4-year-old campaign.

“He had a nice campaign, looking forward to bringing him back as a 4-year-old,” Rice said.