John Hennegan, a long-time racing official for the New York Racing Association, died on April 11 after a battle with brain cancer, his family announced over the weekend. He was 84.

Henngan began working at NYRA in 1965 and worked for nearly 40 years spanning five decades. He worked as a patrol judge, assistant clerk of scales, clerk of scales and placing judge. He was a patrol judge for the famous Ruffian-Foolish Pleasure match race at Belmont Park and was an official in various capacities for the Triple Crown-clinching victories of Secretariat, Seattle Slew and Affirmed.

Sanford Bacon, a longtime owner and breeder based primarily in New York, died Friday at a rehab facility in South Florida, according to his caretaker Marcia Walker.  He was 95.

Bacon is best known as the breeder and owner of champion New York-bred siblings Say Florida Sandy and Dancin’ Renee, as well as the multiple New York-bred stakes winner Risky Rachel.

No More Time, winner of the Grade 3 Sam. F. Davis and runner-up in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby, suffered an injury during a workout Sunday morning at the Palm Meadows training center in South Florida and is out of the Kentucky Derby, trainer Jose D’Angelo said.

That development opens up a spot in the May 4 Kentucky Derby for Lexington Stakes winner Encino should his connections want to run. After Saturday’s Lexington, trainer Brad Cox mentioned the Kentucky Derby or Preakness Stakes as possible for Encino’s next race.

The purse for the Super Derby on Sept. 14 at Louisiana Downs has been boosted to $250,000, according to a stakes schedule provided by a track official. Last year, the race was worth $200,000 when held for the first time following a three-year hiatus. It was run Sept. 2.

The Super Derby will again be at 1 1/8 miles.

Louisiana Downs opens May 4 and races through Sept. 26. The calendar calls for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday racing most weeks. There are also live cards on select Saturdays, including Super Derby Day.

Alotaluck, the runner-up to Kentucky Derby probable Stronghold in the Grade 3, $400,000 Sunland Park Derby, is getting about a month off, trainer Ty Garrett said Saturday. The horse last raced on April 7, and won the $125,000 Mine That Bird Derby by 2 1/2 lengths at Sunland.

“We turned him out yesterday,” Garrett said. “We’re going to give him like 30 days. We’ll let him tell us, then we’ll look for a spot.”

Lone Star Park’s stakes schedule gets underway opening night. The eight-race card starts with the $75,000 Bluebonnet, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for fillies and mares bred in Texas.

The race has drawn one of the state’s top runners in Too Much Kiki, who won three straight sprint stakes during the Sam Houston Race Park meet before finishing second in the $100,000 Texas Thoroughbred Association Oaks in her two-turn debut March 23.

Presidential, Kupuna and Frosted Grace have each won a major stakes in the Southwest region in their last start and all could land at Lone Star Park this meet for the Grade 3, $400,000 Steve Sexton Mile.

The race is the centerpiece of a 41-date meet that opens Thursday night. The season will continue through July 14. The races again are unable to be simulcast to U.S. locales other than Texas racetracks due to an ongoing impasse between the Texas Racing Commission and the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority. Texas does not operate under the jurisdiction of HISA.

John W. Jacobs, a son of Hall of Fame trainer Hirsch Jacobs who won two Triple Crown races with horses bred in partnership by his father, died Wednesday at his home in Key Biscayne, Fla., surrounded by family members, according to his family. Jacobs, who had been suffering from a long illness, was 89.

Jacobs began working for his father in 1957, three years after Hirsch Jacobs had been elected to the Hall of Fame. In 1970, Hirsch Jacobs died in February, and the horses in the stable were transferred to John, including two top 3-year-olds, Personality and High Echelon.

George Weaver, a trainer based in New York, has been notified that a horse he trains, Anna’s Wish, tested positive for the banned drug metformin after finishing third in the Cicada Stakes on March 16 at Aqueduct, according to a notice posted on the website of the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit on Thursday.