ARCADIA, Calif. – One year after riding in his first Kentucky Derby, champion Canadian jockey Kazushi Kimura picked up his second Derby mount. Kimura will ride lightly raced Japanese colt T O Password in the 2024 Kentucky Derby, his California agent Brian Beach confirmed.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Even as Jody’s Pride was running well on the dirt last year, trainer Jorge Abreu had the belief the filly was truly meant for the turf.

Now, she may actually get the chance to prove him right.

Jody’s Pride, who finished seventh in the Grade 1 Ashland at Keeneland on April 5, is no longer under consideration for the Kentucky Oaks and is likely to be pointed to a turf race for her next start, Abreu said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Following her successful seasonal debut in Saturday’s Grade 3 Giant’s Causeway Stakes at Keeneland, Roses for Debra will be pointed to a stakes at Saratoga during the Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, trainer Christophe Clement said Sunday.

Clement said the options are the Grade 2, $200,000 Intercontinental Stakes against females on June 7 or the Grade 1, $500,000 Jaipur against males the following day. Both races are at 5 1/2 furlongs, the distance at which she won the Giant’s Causeway.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Sunday was a very good day for trainer Victor Barboza Jr. and the connections of Grand Mo the First, who got in his first work since finishing a well-beaten third behind Fierceness in the Grade 1 Florida Derby while also moving one step closer to gaining a spot in this year’s Kentucky Derby.

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.