The adjective in his name fits Formidable Man, who figures to be a shorter price than usual in search of his fourth career graded stakes triumph Monday in the $300,000 Shoemaker Mile (G1) at Santa Anita.

Rebounds were the theme in Santa Anita’s graded stakes on Sunday, as Straight No Chaser wired the Santa Anita Sprint Championship (G2), and Sugar Fish won the Zenyatta (G2).

Che Evasora, winner of a Breeders’ Cup Challenge event in her native Argentina, will make her stateside debut in Sunday’s Zenyatta (G2) at Santa Anita.

Defending champion McKulick found her ideal conditions in Thursday’s Glens Falls (G2) at Saratoga, and the Klaravich Stables runner seized the opportunity with enthusiasm.

McKulick, who denied two-time defending champion War Like Goddess in last year’s Glens Falls (G2), bids for a repeat of her own in Thursday’s renewal at Saratoga.

War Like Goddess just keeps on rolling. The seven-year-old mare became a graded stakes winner for the fourth year in a row when rallying to victory in Sunday’s $250,000 Robert G. Dick Memorial (G3) at Delaware Park.

A quartet of stakes worth a combined $550,000 served as the highlights of an action-packed Saturday card at Gulfstream Park.