ELMONT, N.Y. – Just two weeks after his victory in the Belmont Stakes, Palace Malice got back to work Sunday, breezing a half-mile in 49.45 seconds by himself over the Belmont training track.

“He came out of the Belmont so well, and I was getting ready to ship him up to Saratoga,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “I just felt like he was telling me to give [him] a breeze, so we did.”

Pletcher said Palace Malice got his final quarter in 24 seconds “and looked great doing it, very much in hand.” Pletcher is pointing Palace Malice to the Grade 2 Jim Dandy at Saratoga on July 27.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The top 3-year-old fillies on the East Coast could be headed for a showdown in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks on July 20 at Saratoga, their connections indicated Sunday.

Close Hatches, the 7 1/4-length winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Mother Goose over 1-5 favorite Dreaming of Julia, is expected to make her next start in the $300,000 Coaching Club, a 1 1/8-mile race around two turns, trainer Bill Mott said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Five of the leading candidates for the Queen’s Plate breezed on the main track here Sunday, as Nipissing, Dynamic Sky, Spring in the Air, His Race to Win, and Up With the Birds all got in their penultimate workouts.

The $1 million Queen’s Plate, a 1 1/4-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds, will be run July 7.

Nipissing, the winner of the June 9 Woodbine Oaks for trainer Rachel Halden, was clocked in 48.20 seconds for her four furlongs under regular rider Steven Bahen.

Jax and Jill looked far superior to her competition on paper and that’s exactly how it played out on the racetrack Saturday night at Charles Town. A 3-year-old West Virginia-bred filly ridden by Gerald Almodovar for trainer Scott Lake and owner Robert Cole Jr., Jax and Jill ($2.20) cruised to a nine-length victory in the $50,800 It’s Binn Too Long Stakes.

In winning for the sixth time in eight lifetime starts, Jax and Jill ran 4 ½ furlongs in 50.85 seconds and raised her bankroll to $171,425. Three of her wins have come in stakes restricted to West Virginia-breds.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Fittingly on a Western-themed nighttime Saturday card at Churchill Downs, one even including jockeys riding a mechanical bull between races, it was a Texas-bred filly, Fiftyshadesofgold, who proved an eight-length winner of the $113,400 Debutante for 2-year-old fillies.

London Lane, the longest shot in an eight-horse field, came rolling down the center of the track under Horacio Karamanos to post a $102.60 shocker in the Grade 2, $300,000 Colonial Turf Cup on Saturday night at Colonial Downs.

PLEASANTON, Calif. -- Let Faith Arise let Tribal Gal and Marks Mine duel through fast fractions before pulling clear in the stretch as she won her stakes debut in the $58,050 California Wine Stakes at the Alameda County Fair on Saturday.

Let Faith Arise ($5.60) rallied nicely to win an allowance race at Golden Gate Fields on June 9, but a nice half-mile work on June 18 convinced trainer Jerry Hollendorfer to bring the Kafwain filly back after only a 13-day rest.

In April, Lightning Electric remained a 6-year-old maiden after failing to beat $7,000 claimers sprinting on dirt. Saturday, Lightning Electric became a stakes winner.

After beginning his career by going 1 for 8 on dirt, Lightning Electric is now 2 for 2 since he was tried going long on turf after taking the $60,000 Smarty Jones HBPA at Penn National.

The Smarty Jones was the second of two turf stakes restricted to the offspring of Pennsylvania stallions on a 10-race card devoted to Pennsylvania-bred and Pennsylvania-sired horses.

ELMONT, N.Y. - One week removed from watching his own heavily favored Royal Delta get upset in a graded stakes at Churchill Downs, trainer Bill Mott turned the tables on another heavy favorite, as Close Hatches rolled to a 7 1/4-length victory over 1-5 shot Dreaming of Julia in Saturday’s Grade 1, $300,000 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park.

Dreaming of Julia, who got shuffled back to last on the far turn, rallied to get second by a half-length over Marathon Lady. Toasting and Sister State completed the order of finish.

My Place Anytime raced 7-10 favorite Silverette into submission to win her first stakes, the $61,200 Blue Sparkler for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.

A $5,000 claim here last summer by trainer Yvon Belsoeur, My Place Anytime was stepping up following a second-level victory earlier this month. The 5-year-old now has six wins in nine starts since the claim, none bigger than this.

The race played out exactly as expected with Silverette, breaking from the rail, and the speedy My Place Anytime contesting the early pace in a head-to-head battle.