Sara Elbadwi & Jonathon Kinchen look back at the Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga and the Haskell Stakes at Monmouth.

As the connections of the top finishers in the Haskell Stakes (G1) spend the next few days and weeks mulling plans for their 3-year-olds, some interesting possibilities abound.

Amiloc will not be confirmed for the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes (G1) July 26, with his trainer Ralph Beckett keen to give him more time to recover from his Royal Ascot exertions.

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Thought Process gives trainer Phil D’Amato his third San Clemente Handicap (G2T) in four years and the trainer’s second stakes win on the July 19 Del Mar card, following the Wickerr Stakes with Almendares.

Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Journalism mounted a sustained rally and caught Goal Oriented and Gosger near the wire to win the $1,017,500 Haskell Stakes (G1) July 19 at Monmouth Park.

Back in against Mullikin and Nakatomi, horses he beat in the True North Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course in June, the result was the same July 19 in the Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes (G2), with Book’em Danno prevailing by 2 1/2 lengths.

Scottish Lassie could not be beat in the $465,000 Coaching Club American Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1) July 19 at Saratoga Race Course, taking the field gate to wire for a dominating 15 1/2-length victory.

The New York Racing Association and the New York State Gaming Commission have placed a group of horses located in barn 28 on the main track side of Saratoga Race Course under quarantine due to a suspected case of strangles.

Scottish Lassie could not be beat in the $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1) July 19 at Saratoga Race Course, taking the field gate to wire for a dominating 15 1/2-length victory.