Bulletin slated to stretch out in Saratoga's Better Talk Now

While trainer Todd Pletcher won’t be represented in Saturday’s featured Saratoga race for 3-year-olds, the Travers Stakes (G1), another of his sophomore stars will return Sunday in the Spa’s $100,000 Better Talk Now.

WinStar Farm, China Horse Club and SF Racing's Bulletin, who has not raced further than 5 ½ furlongs, will stretch to a mile in his first start since defeated April 27 in Churchill Downs’ William Walker Stakes.

"In retrospect, we ran him back too soon," Pletcher told the NYRA Press Office of Bulletin, who had won Keeneland’s Palisades Turf Sprint three weeks prior. "We were trying to put him in position to go to Royal Ascot and he was a touch flat.

“Subsequently he got a temperature and he wound up losing a couple weeks of training. We're going to try him at a mile and see where that takes us."

The City Zip colt won his first three starts, including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, and was already under consideration to stretch out a bit leading up to the Secretariat (G1) on Arlington Million day.

Rather, Pletcher has Bulletin slated for the Better Talk Now, which could also mark the turf debut of Bourbon War, seen in the final two legs of the Triple Crown series.