Henry Dominguez, a perennial leading trainer in New Mexico who won stakes with such popular horses as Isn’t He Clever, Song of Navarone, and Forest Mouse, has died at 61.

Dominguez died Wednesday in El Paso, Texas, confirmed Kimberly Vanecek, his sister-in-law. A visitation is scheduled for Tuesday from 5-9 p.m. Mountain at Sunset Funeral Home West at 480 North Resler in El Paso. A funeral Mass is scheduled for 10 a.m. on Wednesday at St. Matthew’s Catholic Church at 400 W. Sunset Road in El Paso.  

Trainer and pinhooker James “J.J.” Crupi, the proprietor of Crupi’s New Castle Farm, died Thursday in Maryland. He was 79.

Crupi had just attended the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale of 2-year-olds in training on Monday and Tuesday.

Chad Brown, the three-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer, has agreed to pay $1.6 million in back pay and fines after a federal investigation determined that he had failed to pay overtime wages to hotwalkers and grooms in his barn and found other “willful violations” of labor law, according to a release from the U.S. Department of Labor.

Ronnie Virgets, a New Orleans writer and broadcaster, died Monday night at a nursing home in Destrehan, La. Virgets, 77, was especially known for his racetrack writing and won two Eclipse Awards, the first for a story about the funeral of famed Fair Grounds publicity director Allen “Black Cat” Lacombe, the second for the 1993 fire that destroyed the old Fair Grounds grandstand.

Maximum Security had his first serious exercise since the Kentucky Derby on Wednesday at Monmouth Park when trainer Jason Servis two-minute-licked him and then let him gallop out 1 1/8 miles.

“He got beat up, cut up in the Derby,” Servis said. “Now, he’s starting to come back to himself.”

Servis said Maximum Security went the mile in almost exactly two minutes – 2:00.02 – with his final seven furlongs in 1:47. Servis said he galloped out 1 1/8 miles in 2:13 under exercise rider Edelberto Rivas.

BALTIMORE – War of Will, who won the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, is poised to be the only horse this year to compete in all three Triple Crown races, with trainer Mark Casse saying on Sunday morning here at Pimlico that the Belmont Stakes on June 8 would be the next target barring any unforeseen setbacks.

“There are only three Triple Crown races,” Casse said. “They’re pretty important. I think if you can do it you should do it. That’s us. That’s what we do. We run.

“I’d say there’s an extremely good shot we’ll be there.”

BALTIMORE – For as much success as he’s had in the Kentucky Derby, trainer Bob Baffert has made an even bigger mark on the Preakness Stakes.

Baffert has won the Preakness seven times, with all five of his Derby winners – Real Quiet, Silver Charm, War Emblem, American Pharoah, and Justify – and two more who were good enough to win the Derby – Point Given and Lookin At Lucky – and redeemed themselves here at Pimlico after disappointing losses two weeks prior at Churchill Downs.

Following a Kentucky Derby whose unsatisfying ending continues to reverberate, the Triple Crown scene moves to Pimlico on Saturday for the 144th Preakness Stakes, which looks set to have its biggest field since 2011, with eight horses who did not run in the Derby joining four exiting the first leg of the Triple Crown.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Topped by a five-furlong breeze in 59.20 seconds by Lexington Stakes winner Owendale, three new players joining the Triple Crown trail worked Saturday at Churchill Downs in preparation for the Grade 1 Preakness at Pimlico on May 18.

Kentucky Derby winner Country House has been sent to the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital near Lexington, Ky., to get a full workup after becoming ill earlier this week and being taken out of consideration for the Preakness Stakes, and will now certainly bypass the Belmont Stakes as well, his trainer, Bill Mott, said Friday.