SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Bill Mott was sitting in a golf cart outside his barn Sunday morning and accepting congratulations for three stakes victories accrued in less than 24 hours. Mott, however, was more interested in looking forward than back. “It’s all history now, it’s all in the record book, we’re looking for the Jockey Club Gold Cup and the Flower Bowl,” Mott said. Yes, Mott will have Olympiad and War Like Goddess as top contenders in Saturday’s Grade 1, $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup and Grade 2, $600,000 Flower Bowl at Saratoga. It didn’t take much prodding, though, to have Mott revisit Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Forego victory by Cody’s Wish, and Friday night’s stakes double at Charles Town with Art Collector in the $1 million Charles Town Classic and Frank’s Rockette in the $250,000 Misty Bennett Pink Ribbon Stakes. :: DRF's Saratoga headquarters – Stakes schedule, previews, recaps, past performances, and more Cody’s Wish pulled off a mammoth surprise, running by 1-9 favorite Jackie’s Warrior in deep stretch to win the Forego by 1 1/4 lengths. It was the third straight stakes victory and sixth win from his last seven starts for Cody’s Wish, a son of Curlin owned by Godolphin Racing. “That was a huge win yesterday, being able to beat who I would consider the best sprinter in the country,” Mott said. “We beat him at seven-eighths of a mile and not six, but it was still a big race for our horse. He ran racehorse time and was getting away from everybody crossing the wire.” Any win by Cody’s Wish has added meaning. The horse is named for teenager Cody Dorman, a Kentucky resident who suffers from the genetic disorder Wolf-Hirschborn Syndrome. Dorman met Cody’s Wish as a young foal during a farm tour visit via the Make-a-Wish program and developed a bond with the horse. “The win was good for the owners, it was great for the team here at the stable and goes a little further than that,” Mott said. “If it gives a little bit of enjoyment for this young kid, that makes it really worthwhile.” Mott said Cody’s Wish, who earned a whopping 112 Beyer Speed Figure for the performance, would be pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile on Nov. 5 at Keeneland and will likely train up to that race. “He’s better suited to a mile than six furlongs,” Mott said. On Friday night, at Charles Town, Art Collector won his second straight Charles Town Classic, this time by 4 1/4 lengths. The purse this year was $1 million; it was $800,000 last year. In 2021, Art Collector followed the Charles Town Classic with a victory in the Grade 1 Woodward at Belmont Park and then a sixth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. This year, owner Bruce Lunsford may set his sights a little lower, perhaps opting to skip the Breeders’ Cup and point to the Grade 1 Clark at Churchill Downs in late November. :: Get Saratoga Clocker Reports from Mike Welsch and the Clocker Team. Available every race day.   “Bruce is not pressing,” Mott said. “The horse is already a Grade 1 winner, he’s made $2 million. He’s not pressing to have to do anything. It’s where we can take him and have some fun with him. He loved it the other day going to Charles Town. He loves winning.” At Collector, who is heading to Claiborne Farm next year as a stallion, has a record of 10-1-0 from 19 starts with earnings of $2,317,610. Four races before Art Collector won, Frank’s Rockette captured the $250,000 Misty Bennet Pink Ribbon Stakes. It was her seventh stakes victory and ninth win overall from 23 starts. There again, Mott said he’s in no hurry to hunt big game with Frank’s Rockette. He does not have a race picked out for her, but did mention the Gallant Bloom, a 6 1/2-furlong race at Aqueduct on Sept. 25, as one possibility. Frank’s Rockette won the Gallant Bloom in 2020 as a 3-year-old. Mott’s trio of female sprinters in Sunday’s Ballerina - Caramel Swirl, Obligatory and Travel Column - finished second, third and fourth. The only disappointment of the weekend was Speaker’s Corner, who finished fourth in Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Pat O’Brien at Del Mar. “Disappointing,” Mott said. “Even though he didn’t run well, I still feel pretty good about the decision to run him there and Cody’s Wish here the way it turned out.” On Sunday morning, Mott worked both Olympiad and War Like Goddess for their weekend stakes engagements. Olympiad worked a half-mile in 49.94 seconds while War Like Goddess went a half-mile in 50 in company with Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap winner Casa Creed. Those works all came over the Oklahoma dirt track. Olympiad is looking to rebound from a fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Whitney for which Mott could not find a plausible excuse. “He’s come back and hasn’t missed any training, we worked him this morning and if he trains well this week, we’re good to go,” Mott said. War Like Goddess figures a heavy favorite in the Flower Bowl. She’s 8 for 10 with one of those losses coming by a half-length in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf last summer. She won last year’s Flower Bowl, when it was a Grade 1, by 2 3/4 lengths. She is 3 for 3 at Saratoga, coming off a victory in the Grade 2 Glens Falls on Aug. 6. Jackie’s Warrior still on target for BC Sprint Jackie’s Warrior, who suffered his first defeat this year when beaten by Cody’s Wish in the Forego, came out of the race in good order and will make his final career start in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Keeneland on Nov. 5. Trainer Steve Asmussen didn’t offer an excuse for Jackie’s Warrior, choosing instead to offer props to Cody’s Wish. “Jackie came back really good,” Asmussen said. “It’s a perfect example of sometimes you have zero to do with how fast the other horses run. Wow, what a race that Cody’s Wish ran.” Jackie’s Warrior will look to win his first Breeders’ Cup race. In 2020, he finished fourth in the Juvenile at Keeneland. In 2021, he finished sixth in the Sprint at Del Mar, a race from which he emerged with a chip in his knee.