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Royal Delta easily avenged her third-place finish behind It's Tricky and Plum Pretty four weeks earlier in the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks with a convincing 5 1/2-length victory in Saturday's Grade 1 Alabama.

The quirky habits that make It's Tricky a well-named filly were on display Saturday morning when, according to her connections, she ran around her stall for 40 minutes before her handlers could get her corralled.

The Kentucky Derby has taken its toll on plenty of 3-year-old colts over the years. It obviously has had little effect on the 3-year-old filly Devil May Care.

With three furlongs remaining in Saturday's Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park, Funny Moon appeared to be heading to the parking lot, while her seven rivals were gearing up for a stretch-long sprint to the finish line.

With Rachel Alexandra, Saturday's $300,000 feature from New York would have had more pizzazz.

With Rachel Alexandra facing the boys in the $1 million Haskell at Monmouth Park on Aug. 2, the racing office here had no problem filling Saturday's Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park, drawing a contentious field of eight.

On a day when a transformer fire took out most of the power in the Belmont Park grandstand, Music Note put some electricity back into the historic facility with a dominant 11-length romp in the Grade 1, $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks.

Closing weekend at Belmont Park won't look exactly like a ghost town with the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks being renewed for the 92nd time.

Octave, running as a replacement for Belmont winner Rags to Riches, won the $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks for 3-year-old fillies Saturday at Belmont Park.

Folk, a filly who took on colts in her last start, is running in Saturday's Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Belmont Park.

Rags to Riches will pass Saturday's $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks after spiking a fever, but the favorite for the Grade 1 race may come out of the same barn.

Belmont Stakes winner Rags to Riches has a slight fever and won't run in Saturday's $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks.

On Monday, after Wonder Lady Anne L worked six furlongs in 1:14.01 over Saratoga's main track, Dutrow declared Wonder Lady Anne L a definite starter for Saturday's $600,000 Alabama, the marquee race for 3-year-old fillies at this meet.

The victory enabled Prado to win the Belmont riding title, 65-64 over Eibar Coa.

The ability to get 1 1/4 miles is the major hurdle facing most of the 3-year-old fillies entered in Saturday's $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks, the featured event on Belmont Park's closing day card. The lone exception may be Pine Island.

Spun Sugar and Sis City, the Grade 1 Ashland winner, head an Alabama field that has been riddled with defections.