ARCADIA, Calif. - The multiple stakes winner Grand Slam Smile joined trainer Sean McCarthy’s stable earlier this year at Santa Anita and is nearing her first start since late November.

Owned and bred by Larry and Marianne Williams, Grand Slam Smile has won 6 of 11 starts and earned $526,400. She was previously trained by Steve Specht, who retired late last year.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Jockey William Antongeorgi was briefly hospitalized on Saturday evening after being unseated shortly after the start of the day’s ninth race at Santa Anita.

Antongeorgi was aboard 26-1 Perfect Smile in a six-furlong maiden race when the first-time starter ducked toward a gap where the first turn joins the backstretch. Perfect Smile started from the inside post in a field of eight.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Kopion, who has emerged as the nation’s leading female sprinter in recent months, is under consideration for the Grade 2 Great Lady M. Stakes at Los Alamitos on July 5.

Trainer Richard Mandella said on Sunday that Kopion emerged from a win in the Grade 1, $1 million Derby City Distaff at seven furlongs at Churchill Downs on May 3 in “very good” condition.

Journalism is alive and well and going to the Preakness.

Aron Wellman, of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, which co-owns Journalism, said late Sunday afternoon that the Kentucky Derby runner-up will run in Saturday’s $2 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, where he will likely be an odds-on favorite in what is shaping up to be a nine-horse field.

Wellman announced the decision in a posting on X, formerly Twitter.

BALTIMORE – Post positions drawn Sunday for Friday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico give no runner in the field of nine 3-year-old fillies a distinct advantage.

The Black-Eyed Susan will be one of three graded stakes on the 14-race Friday card at Pimlico, along with the Grade 3 Miss Preakness for 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs and the Grade 3 Pimlico Special for 3-year-olds and up at 1 3/16 miles.

OZONE PARK, N.Y – Sandman has entered the Preakness picture.

Sandman, the Arkansas Derby winner who finished seventh as the second betting choice in the Kentucky Derby, has come out of the race well enough in trainer Mark Casse’s estimation to run back in next Saturday’s $2 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

“He’s trained really well, he’s got good energy, he’ll go to Pimlico on Monday,” Casse said.

Jockey Junior Alvarado was fined $62,000 and suspended two days by the Horse Racing Integrity and Safety Authority for using his whip eight times on Sovereignty in winning the Kentucky Derby on May 3 at Churchill Downs. HISA rules allow a rider to use the whip only six times in a race.

Alvarado disagreed with the penalties and has not ruled out appealing them, he told Daily Racing Form on Saturday. He has 10 days to inform HISA if he plans to file an appeal.