Phipps Stable’s Pennsylvania Derby and Ohio Derby winning Gone Astray will make his next start at Aqueduct Racetrack in the Grade 3, $100,000 Discovery Handicap for 3-year-olds on November 21, said Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey.

“He’s changed since we started running him two turns,” said McGaughey of the son of Dixie Union, 3-3-1 from eight starts this year for earnings of $777,757, with his only off-the-board performance a sixth to Munnings in the one-turn Woody Stephens on Belmont Stakes Day.

“He ran second at Monmouth [in the 1 1/16th mile Coronado’s Quest] and then second to Blame in the [1 1/8th mile] Curlin at Saratoga, and his last two races have been great,” added McGaughey, referring to the colt’s back-to-back wins in the Pennsylvania and Ohio Derbies, both Grade 2 races.

Gone Astray has had two works since his Ohio Derby win on October 3, going three furlongs in 39.84 on October 26 and a half-mile in 50.17 on November 2, and will work again on Sunday.

Stablemate Imperial Council, runner-up in the Grade 2 Gotham and Peter Pan Stakes, breezed for the fifth time Friday morning since his return to the worktab in mid-October, going three furlongs in 37.45. Eighth in the Met Mile on May 25 in his last start, he likely will return to the races this winter in Florida, said McGaughey’s assistant, Buzzy Tenney.

Turtle Bird Stable’s Haynesfield, who returned to the winner’s circle for the first time in more than eight months when he won the $250,000 Empire Classic at Belmont Park on October 24, is also under consideration for the Discovery, said trainer Steve Asmussen’s assistant, Toby Sheets.

“He came out of the race well,” said Sheets, “and we know he likes Aqueduct.”

The son of Speightstown won three straight stakes at the Big A last winter – the Damon Runyon, Count Fleet and Whirlaway – before finishing eighth behind I Want Revenge in the Grade 3 Gotham in March. He returned to the races on October 2 with a runner-up finish in the 6 ½ furlong Sir Keys Stakes at Belmont Park.

In his first work since the Empire Classic, Haynesfield breezed an easy half-mile in 52.02 on November 2.

Elliott Mavorah’s Interpatation, 43-1 winner of the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational at Belmont Park last month, leaves next Saturday for his engagement in the $4 million Japan Cup Invitational on November 29. He will be accompanied by two stablehands on the 14-hour direct flight to Tokyo, said trainer Bobby Barbara.

“I’m leaving on the 24th, which means I’ll be having sushi for Thanksgiving,” said Barbara. “The owners are going, but the only thing we don’t have is a jockey. We’ll wait until after the Breeders’ Cup is over and make a decision by Wednesday.”

Interpatation, whose victory in the Joe Hirsch was his first since winning the Larry R. Rivelo President’s Cup Stakes at Philadelphia Park on September 15, 2007, worked a half-mile in 49.42 on Monday and will breeze again this Monday, said Barbara.

“We are all excited – this is a once in a lifetime opportunity,” said Barbara, whose furthest travels with the gelding have been to Florida. “He’s doing great, and I can’t wait to go.”

Coming off the shelf after nearly a year off, Circle E Racing’s 2007 Pennsylvania Derby winner Timber Reserve has taken some time to get himself back together. After a seventh-place finish in allowance company at Saratoga on September 3 – his first start since November 2008 – the 4-year-old son of Forest Camp has turned in a pair of third-place stakes finishes in the Mr. Right at Belmont Park on September 30 and the Half High on Wednesday at Aqueduct Racetrack.

“It was a good effort,” Kimmel said of the one-mile Half High. “I think his best deal really is a two-turn race though. These long sprints around one turn just might not be his thing – he fails to accelerate the way you need to finish those.”

Kimmel is confident that Timber Reserve is coming around though and mulling a quick turn around in next Saturday’s Grade 3, $100,000-added Stuyvesant Stakes at 1 1/8th miles.

“He came out of [the Half High] looking really good,” Kimmel said. “When he was younger, this horse used to breeze and it was a struggle to get him to go in :59 – he’d want to go in :58. I think it may just be taking him a little longer to get back to the level of fitness where he needs to be to run with top level horses.

“He was really in peak form for the Meadowlands Cup last year and I’d like to get him back to the level he was at as a three-year-old. Everything else is right, though and that’s why I’m thinking about running him back in the Stuyvesant. Two turns, a mile and an eighth, that’s probably his best kind of race.”

Making his first start for new trainer Anthony Dutrow, Solar Flare (ARG) eked out a three-quarter length victory over More Than a Reason in Wednesday’s Half High Stakes at Aqueduct. It was the first New York victory for the son of Salt Lake, whose previous best performance was a second to Frost Giant in the Grade 1 Suburban in 2008 while in the care of trainer Larry Jones.

“We were very happy with what he did,” said Dutrow of Fox Hill Farm’s 5-year-old horse, who covered the mile in 1:35.46.

Dutrow said plans called for Solar Flare to remain in New York for the winter.

“We’re hoping he will take to the inner track,” said Dutrow. “We don’t have anything specific picked out for him, but we’ll find something.”