By My Standards back in training after 11th-place finish in Kentucky Derby

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – By My Standards, the Louisiana Derby winner who was 11th in the Kentucky Derby, has returned to training after getting nearly two weeks off, with his next start still to be determined.

Trainer Bret Calhoun said he will wait until By My Standards is farther along in his training to decide when the colt will race next. Calhoun has pinpointed the Matt Winn on the June 15 Stephen Foster night card at Churchill as the next start for Mr. Money, a 5 1/4-length winner of the Pat Day Mile on Derby Day. Both colts were sired by Goldencents and have Gabriel Saez as their regular rider.

“We’ll keep them separated,” Calhoun said. “If Mr. Money does well in the Matt Winn, then maybe we go next with him to the Indiana Derby” on July 13.

“If he doesn’t, then maybe that’d be the next race for By My Standards. These summer campaigns, there’s a lot of money out there, a lot of derbies, so we’ll have options.”

Big fields for co-features

A trio of rich allowance races, all of them oversubscribed, will serve as highlights of a nine-race Sunday card at Churchill.

Race 4 is an $87,000, first-level turf mile in which 17 were entered but only as many as 10 can start. Similarly, race 7 is an $89,000, second-level turf route in which 16 were entered, but only as many as 10 of the 14 horses on the program can start. And race 8 is an $87,000, first-level sprint that drew 16 3-year-old fillies, of which only as many as 12 can start.

Racing will be held here Monday – normally a dark day – because of the Memorial Day holiday. First post Sunday and Monday is 12:45 p.m. Eastern.

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Bulletin to skip Ascot

Bulletin, the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint winner who incurred his first career defeat in the William Walker on opening night (April 27) of the Churchill spring meet, will bypass the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup next month at Royal Ascot after coming down with a temperature earlier this week.

Elliott Walden, president of WinStar Farm, the 3-year-old colt’s co-owner, said on his Twitter account that the Aug. 10 Secretariat at Arlington is now the summer goal for Bulletin. The Secretariat has been shortened from 1 1/4 miles to a mile starting this year.