Barn Notes

NYRA RELEASE —- • Pletcher happy with potential G1 Travers starters after Friday breezes • Stakes winner No Dozing targets elusive graded win in G1 Jerkens • Fayeq posts bullet work ahead of likely Travers bid • Next start uncertain for G1 winner Mind Your Biscuits...

By Dan Smith —- RUN AWAY CAN’T HIDE FROM HIGH EXPECTATIONS IN BEST PAL Kaleem Shah’s Klimt used a victory in the Best Pal Stakes as a springboard to another in the Del Mar Futurity and honors as 2-year-old of the meeting in 2016. Now the founder and president of CalNet...

By Bailey Gallison —- • Permian Prepared for Secretariat Performance • Ascend Seeks Second Grade I in Arlington Million • Rouget’s Duo Get Final Prep Before Million Day PERMIAN PREPARED FOR SECRETARIAT PERFORMANCE With Scottish withdrawn from Saturday’s Grade I Arlington...

NYRA RELEASE —- • Haskell runner-up McCraken on work tab for possible G1 Travers bid • Salty ‘super’ ahead of G1 Alabama; World Approval ‘on top of his game’ • Lookin At Lee eyeing start in Travers • Travers contender Girvin ‘perfect’...

By Bailey Gallison —- • Scottish Withdrawn From Arlington Million • Ballydoyle Trio Stretch Their Legs • Divisidero Gets Chance at Million Glory SCOTTISH WITHDRAWN FROM ARLINGTON MILLION Godolphin’s Scottish (IRE) has been withdrawn from the Grade I Arlington Million...

By Dan Smith —- Mike Smith; Benoit SMITH PLANS A QUIET BIRTHDAY, PARTLY COUNTING HIS BLESSINGS If, as the saying goes, you’re as young as you feel, how old is Mike Smith today? “I’m feeling pretty good, so I’d say I’m about 35,” Smith said Thursday morning by telephone,...