David Grening

Iron Orchard, a Grade 1-winning 2-year-old filly who was purchased for $2.5 million before last October’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, went gate to wire to win Friday’s $200,000 Fleet Indian Stakes by 12 lengths.

Trainer Todd Pletcher hopes his formula that yielded past Travers success works for Renegade, the Kentucky Derby runner-up who three weeks ago won the Jim Dandy and who Pletcher believes has continued to flourish out of the race.

Jockey Luis Saez won his 4,000th career race in North America on Saturday when he guided Rothschild to a front-running victory in Saturday’s second race at Saratoga.

Jockey Irad Ortiz Jr., dealing with a nagging foot injury, will not ride again at Saratoga this summer, and is now pointing to a Sept. 3 return at Kentucky Downs, according to his agent Steve Rushing.

The 3-year-old filly My Gun’s Loaded, a neck winner of Saturday’s Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga, will most likely take on older females in her next start with the options being the Grade 2, $250,000 Beldame at Belmont Park on Sept. 25 or the Grade 1, $650,000 Spinster at Keeneland on Oct. 4.

Jose Ortiz, a three-time leading rider at Saratoga who is 0 for 10 in the Travers, will be aboard Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo against nine rivals in the Travers, the highlight of a 14-race card with six graded stakes.

Jose Ortiz, a three-time leading rider at Saratoga who is 0 for 10 in the Travers, will be aboard Kentucky Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Golden Tempo against nine rivals in the Travers, the highlight of a 14-race card with six graded stakes.

Five Grade 1 winners, led by millionaires Ways and Means, R Disaster and Kilwin, top a field of 12 older fillies and mares entered Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Ballerina Stakes, one of five undercard stakes on the 14-race Travers Day program.

A change of surface and a change of equipment led to a major change in form for Side Quest. Wednesday, she will look to build off an impressive maiden victory in the $200,000 Bolton Landing Stakes scheduled for 5 1/2 furlongs on the outer turf.

A limited number of general admission tickets, priced at $50, will go on sale Thursday for the Sept. 18 opening-day card at Belmont Park, as the New York Racing Association announced on Tuesday ticketing and admission plans for the upcoming fall meet.