Ria Antonia resumes training after Preakness defeat

Ria Antonia has resumed training at Churchill but has “no definite race” on her agenda, said trainer Tom Amoss. Ria Antonia was badly beaten as the lone filly in the May 17 Preakness when making her first start for Amoss, her fourth trainer.

Meanwhile, Amoss figures to have the horse to beat Saturday with Delaunay in the Grade 3, $100,000 Aristides Stakes. Delaunay comes off a fifth-place finish in the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes on Kentucky Derby Day.

“He’s trained well since then, and we look forward to shortening him up to six furlongs,” said Amoss.

** A couple of big days last weekend for Rosie Napravnik and Corey Lanerie left them deadlocked atop the spring meet jockey standings with 21 winners apiece.

Napravnik won five races here Saturday, and Lanerie came right back with four Sunday. The five-win day for Napravnik set a Churchill record for a female jockey, surpassing the four wins June 28, 1996, by Donna Barton.

** The next winner for Joe Johnson will be the 1,000th of a career that began in 1989. Johnson, 46, has been more active than in recent memory, as he already has won 20 races in 2014, including nine at this meet. He is on par for more winners this year than he has had since 2004, when he had 58.

Johnson is named Friday on just one mount, Winkatdawat in the second.

** Injured jockey Jon Court was at the races Monday for a family outing and said his fractured hand is healing but that he doesn’t believe he will be ready for the July 3 opening at Ellis Park.

“It shouldn’t be too long after,” said Court, who incurred the injury on Derby Day. “I’m doing very well.”

** Golden Soul, the 2013 Kentucky Derby runner-up, was scratched last week from a first-level turf allowance because of a colic issue, said trainer Dallas Stewart.

“He just missed a couple of days,” said Stewart. “He actually worked instead of running. We’re looking for another spot for him.”

** As hinted all along, trainer Ken McPeek has confirmed an upcoming trip to England for Rosalind. The filly will run in the June 20 Coronation Stakes at the Royal Ascot meet and will be ridden by Joel Rosario. Rosalind was a dead-heat winner of the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes in April before finishing fourth in the May 2 Kentucky Oaks.