One possibility for both horses is the Jerome Handicap on Sept. 13, a mile race that is restricted to 3-year-olds.

And on Monday, 3-year-old colts and fillies will run a mile in the Jerome Handicap.

Stretched to one mile (8 furlongs) in the Jerome Handicap, Groovy finished fourth.

He returns on Sept. 4 in the $200,000 Jerome Handicap at Belmont.

He spent the summer on the sideline, but made a powerful comeback to win the Jerome Handicap on Sept. 23.

Tomorrow's featured one-mile Jerome Handicap for 3-year-olds at Belmont drew a field of six today.

In the eighth race, De Roche scored a startling upset victory at 11-1 to win the Jerome Handicap and keep the play alive.

Racing at age three, Fit to Fight won his first major graded stakes race, the 1982 Jerome Handicap.

There are no early scratches from the featured $298,000 Jerome Handicap, a race which, like yesterday's Manhattan, is a Grade I event in name only.

In the Jerome Handicap, he finished second by a nose to Capot.