ARCADIA, Calif. – Majestic Harbor, the upset winner of Saturday’s $500,500 Gold Cup at Santa Anita, will make his next start Aug. 24 in the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar, a chance for the 6-year-old to enhance his position as a contender Nov. 1 for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita.

Majestic Harbor gave owner Ron Beegle, who races as Gallant Stable, and trainer Sean McCarthy their first Grade 1 wins. Equally as important, Majestic Harbor received a fees-paid berth to the BC Classic through the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In program.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sheza Smoke Show was given a rest in March after she finished fifth in her stakes debut in the China Doll Stakes on turf at Santa Anita. Trainer Peter Eurton was unhappy with what he saw from the 3-year-old filly.

“I told the owners, ‘We have no chance of beating those fillies at this time,’ ” Eurton recalled on Sunday. “She was light and needed weight on her.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Wicked Strong has not worked since his fourth-place finish June 7 in the Belmont Stakes, but that likely will change next week, according to trainer Jimmy Jerkens.

"I've just been trying to charge him up a little after the Belmont," Jerkens said Sunday while schooling three horses in the paddock prior to the day's races. "I think it's working. He's doing good. I'll work him in a week, maybe before."

Jerkens plans to take the Jim Dandy-Travers route with Wicked Strong, who won the Wood Memorial before finishing a traffic-troubled fourth in the Kentucky Derby.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Untapable came out of her galloping victory in the Mother Goose at Belmont Park nicely, according to Steve Asmussen's New York-based assistant Toby Sheets, who said the race did not appear to take very much out of her.

"She walked this morning and had good energy for a horse who has just raced," Sheets said.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Tonalist had his first workout Saturday since winning the Belmont Stakes. The Belmont Park main-track work comes three weeks to the day after Tonalist got up to beat Commissioner by a head and end California Chrome's push to sweep the Triple Crown.

Trainer Christophe Clement timed Tonalist in 49 and change with a five-furlong gallop time. New York Racing Association clockers credited Tonalist with a five-furlong work of 1:02.60.

The Grade 2 New York Stakes at Belmont Park on Saturday has the look of a two-horse race.

You have Riposte, who has had four starts this season for trainer Bill Mott and Juddmonte Farms, including a front-running win in the Grade 2 Sheepshead Bay at Belmont Park last time out, and you have Tannery, last year’s winner of the Sheepshead Bay and Grade 1 E.P. Taylor at Woodbine, who has raced only once this year in a minor overnight stakes at Monmouth Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Kent Desormeaux will ride Friday at Santa Anita while the circumstances that led to him not riding his two mounts Thursday are under investigation by the California Horse Racing Board.

Desormeaux, scheduled to ride four horses Friday, met earlier in the day with stewards Scott Cheney, Kim Sawyer, and Tom Ward. The meeting was “informal,” according to stewards, who declined further comment pending the CHRB investigation.

The millionaire gelding Mister Marti Gras will use his sharp closing turf allowance win June 21 as a springboard to one of three possible upcoming spots, all July 12, trainer Chris Block said. The Mystic Lake Mile at Canterbury and the Arlington Handicap and Stars and Stripes at Arlington are under consideration, said Block.

Jockey Sheldon Russell’s first Arlington meeting might have come to a premature end.

Russell was unseated by a 2-year-old first-time starter named Private Prospect before the first race Thursday, breaking his foot and partially tearing his anterior cruciate ligament in the incident.

SunRay Park in Farmington, N.M., has reported double-digit gains in handle during its 39-date mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses that closed June 22. In addition, average daily purses were up 4 percent during the meet, according to figures provided by racing officials.

SunRay handled an average of $140,000 a day on its races from all sources this meet, up from $95,000 during the same meet a year ago. Total handle for the meet approached $5.5 million, up 46 percent from $2 million in 2013.