ARCADIA, Calif. - An ill stablemate led to Get Her Number winning his debut on the main track in Saturday’s Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes for 2-year-olds at Santa Anita.

Get Her Number, fourth in the Del Mar Juvenile Turf on Sept. 7, and Superman Shaq, a maiden race winner at Del Mar on Sept. 6, worked six furlongs in company at San Luis Rey Downs on Sept. 19. When Superman Shaq emerged from the workout showing signs of illness, Get Her Number became a candidate for the $301,000 American Pharoah Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. - An emphatic win by Improbable in Saturday’s Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita gave the 4-year-old his third consecutive win at that level and left one knowledgeable observer pondering if the colt has reached his peak.

“He’s getting better and better,” trainer Bob Baffert said Sunday morning.

That could be a frightening thought in advance of Improbable’s next scheduled start, in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Nov. 7.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Firenze Fire came out of his victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Vosburgh Stakes at Belmont Park in good order and will target a fourth straight appearance in the Breeders’ Cup when he runs in the $2 million Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 7.

A 5-year-old son of Poseidon’s Warrior, Firenze Fire at 2 ran seventh in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar, at 3 was fourth in the Dirt Mile at Churchill Downs and at 4 finished fifth in the Sprint at Santa Anita. He will again target the Sprint, a race for which he earned an automatic entry by winning the Vosburgh.

Come Dancing, winner of the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes at Saratoga on Sept. 6, began preparations for a return trip to the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint when she worked a half-mile in 47.00 seconds Sunday morning over Belmont Park’s training track.

Though it was the fastest of 75 works at the distance on a busy Sunday morning, Come Dancing was just galloping through the stretch after going her opening quarter in 23.36 seconds.

“I thought that was great this morning, super smooth,” trainer Carlos Martin said.

Viadera and Blowout, the 1-2 finishers from Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Noble Damsel Stakes, will be pointed to the Grade 1, $300,000 Matriarch at Del Mar on Nov. 29, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.

Viadera is owned and bred by Juddmonte Farms, which has won the Matriarch six times. Five of those wins came with trainer Bobby Frankel, for whom Brown worked several years. Brown has won two of the last three runnings of the Matriarch with Noble Damsel winners Uni (2018) and Off Limits (2017).

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Nine 2-year-olds ran in Saturday’s 1 1/16-mile In Reality Stakes at Gulfstream Park, only two of whom had previous experience around two turns. One of those was Boca Boy, who parlayed his second-place finish on the turf in the one-mile Proud Man Stakes four weeks earlier into a two-length, upset victory over 1-5 favorite Breeze On By in the final leg of the open division of the Florida Sire Series.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With Tyler Gaffalione otherwise occupied at Keeneland, trainer Kenny McPeek has turned to veteran jockey Robby Albarado to ride Swiss Skydiver on Saturday in Preakness 145 at Pimlico in Baltimore.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Graded winner Independence Hall, previously based on the East Coast and a 2020 Derby candidate after impressive wins his first three starts, has relocated to the West Coast and posted his first comeback work Saturday at Santa Anita for new trainer Michael McCarthy with the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes as his main objective.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Trainer Kenny McPeek confirmed several hours after Swiss Skydiver breezed Saturday morning at Churchill Downs that the star filly will run against male rivals in the Preakness Stakes next Saturday (Oct. 3) at Pimlico in Baltimore as the final jewel of the 2020 Triple Crown.

“Two horses in there look pretty formidable,” said McPeek, referring to Authentic and Art Collector, the likely favorites for the $1 million Preakness. “Beyond that, we ought to be tough. The filly sure is doing good.”

ELMONT, N.Y. - Country Grammer, winner of the Grade 3 Peter Pan Stakes at Saratoga, will run in next Saturday’s $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, trainer Chad Brown said Saturday.

Country Grammer, a son of Tonalist owned by Paul Pompa Jr., is coming off a fifth-place finish behind Tiz the Law in the Travers Stakes on Aug. 8. That race was run just 23 days after Country Grammer beat Caracaro in the Peter Pan, a 1 1/8-mile race typically run in May at Belmont that this year was run at Saratoga on July 16.