ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Justin Nixon said Wednesday that Prince of Wales Stakes winner Coltimus Prime is unlikely to start in the final leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes on grass at Woodbine on Aug. 17.

“I think we’re going to pass, just because the colt ran very well on the dirt,” Nixon said. “He’s also won on Poly, and I just don’t know if we want to venture into unchartered waters on turf. He’s never run on turf before, although he has breezed on it. I think we’re going to stick with what’s been to his liking.”

One of the top-ranked 2-year-old Quarter Horses in the nation will make an appearance Saturday at Ruidoso Downs in the $64,620 John Deere New Mexico Juvenile Challenge Futurity. Lovethewayyoulie will vie for favoritism in the 350-yard race following her May 31 win in the Grade 1, $1 million Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Zivo, the upset winner of the Grade 2 Suburban last out, was kept out of Saturday’s Grade 1 Whitney and will point to the Grade 1 Woodward on Aug. 30, trainer Chad Brown said.

The major goal for Zivo this fall is the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont on Sept. 27.

“After speaking to the owner, Thomas Coleman, we just decided he’d rather focus on the Jockey Club, and we felt the Woodward would be a better prep for that,” Brown said. “It’s a little closer and sets him up for that race where we know he loves Belmont at a mile and a quarter.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown will bring back Grade 1 winners Big Blue Kitten and Dayatthespa in overnight stakes on Saturday’s card.

Big Blue Kitten, who won two Grade 1 races, including the Sword Dancer at 1 1/2 miles, here last year, will run in the $100,000 Lure Stakes at 1 1/16 miles. It will be his first start since he finished eighth in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf. Brown had considered bringing him back in the Grade 1 Sword Dancer here Aug. 17.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Fiftyshadesofhay has won four stakes in her career, all on dirt, and has not raced on the Del Mar Polytrack since she finished fourth in her debut in September 2012. So, trainer Bob Baffert isn’t sure what to expect from her in Saturday’s $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Chad Brown will have a longshot in Saturday’s main event when he runs Last Gunfighter in the $1.5 million Whitney Invitational. But he will have logical contenders in three of the other four stakes on the program.

In the Grade 1, $350,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap, Brown will send out the lightly raced Bakken in search of his first stakes victory against seven rivals, including the in-form sprinter Happy My Way.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Todd Pletcher entered two fillies for Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Test Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, but they weren’t necessarily the two whom many expected.

Pletcher entered Sweet Whiskey, the runner-up in the Grade 1 Acorn, and the speedy Red Velvet, the winner of the Jersey Girl Stakes two starts back at Belmont Park, in the seven-furlong Test. Pletcher did not enter My Miss Sophia, the runner-up in the Kentucky Oaks and the seventh-place finisher as the favorite in the Acorn.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Wax was added to the Polytrack synthetic surface at Del Mar on Tuesday in an effort to slow race and workout times, according to track superintendent Richard Tedesco.

Over the weekend, track records were set at four distances – five furlongs, one mile, 1 1/16 miles, and 1 1/8 miles.

Tuesday’s procedure was conducted along with a roto-tilling to a depth of four inches to loosen the top layer of material, Tedesco said.

“It was a light waxing,” he said. “I didn’t want a lot of stick. I wanted it a little slower. It was getting too fast.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Eddie’s First, last of seven in the Los Alamitos Super Derby on July 5, will miss Friday’s $200,000 Real Good Deal Stakes after bleeding from the lungs during exercise Tuesday, trainer Doug O’Neill said.

Eddie’s First collapsed on the track after bleeding Tuesday and pinned exercise rider Amir Cedeno. Cedeno was hospitalized and remained under care Wednesday morning, awaiting an MRI.

O’Neill said he won’t know how long Eddie’s First will be sidelined until further tests are conducted.

Jockey Kirk LeBlanc underwent successful surgery Monday to repair a broken left arm and broken right thumb suffered when he was unseated from his mount in the seventh race July 23. Doctors used a plate and screws in LeBlanc’s arm and inserted pins into his thumb, according to close friend and fellow rider Gerard Melancon.