Distance figures to be Hill Road's friend as the season progresses as the three-year-old colt needed nearly every bit of the 1 1/8 miles of Saturday's $200,000 Peter Pan (G3) at Aqueduct.

Hill Road will rev back up Saturday in the $200,000 Peter Pan (G3) at Aqueduct, a circuit tune-up for next month's Belmont (G1) at Saratoga.

Welcome to Saratoga 2020, Covid-19 edition. Opening weekend at Saratoga Race Course was an exercise in cognitive dissonance.

A no-show off a three-month break in the June 20 Belmont Stakes (G1), Modernist will look to right his Kentucky Derby (G1) prospects this week, possibly in Thursday's $100,000 Peter Pan Stakes (G3) on opening day of the Saratoga meet.