Jonathan Wong, a leading trainer at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pa., has been suspended for 60 days after a search of his barn in March turned up hypodermic needles and injectable substances, according to the Pennsylvania Horse Racing Commission.

Wong, who has 34 wins from 126 starts this year, began the suspension May 30, according to agency’s records. It will run through July 28. The suspension was first reported by the Paulick Report.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Following Hawksmoor’s head victory over Dacita in the Grade 3 Beaugay Stakes at Belmont Park on May 13, trainer Arnaud Delacour indicated he would likely run the Irish-bred 4-year-old filly back in the Grade 1 Just a Game here on June 10.

But after time to think about it and with a forecast that likely will result in a firm turf course at Belmont this weekend, Delacour has opted to run Hawksmoor in Friday’s Grade 2, $500,000 New York Stakes, creating a rematch with Dacita, last year’s New York winner. The Just a Game is a mile while the New York is 1 1/4 miles.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Neither Take These Chains nor Conquest Babayaga has ever lost while in the care of trainer Chad Brown.

That is likely to change Thursday as Take These Chains and Conquest Babayaga were two of 11 horses entered Saturday for Thursday’s Grade 3, $250,000 Intercontinental Stakes. The Intercontinental is one of three stakes on a nine-race program that begins at 2 p.m.

Thursday is the first day of what the New York Racing Association bills as a three-day Belmont Stakes Racing Festival, which concludes with the Belmont Stakes card June 10.

Belmont Park
Weather: Cloudy
Track: Fast 
Temp.: 57  

ELMONT, N.Y. - A couple of new faces to this year’s Triple Crown, Meantime and Twisted Tom, put in their final works for the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, both working after the renovation break over a main track that seemed to have tightened up a bit following a brief shower that passed through shortly after 7:30 a.m.

Trainer Graham Motion has lined out travel plans for Miss Temple City’s voyage to England later this month for the Royal Ascot meet, but which race she starts in overseas is still being debated, he said on Saturday.

Conquest Mo Money came out of a Friday morning workout at the Fair Hill Training Center with a soft tissue injury and will not compete in the Grade 2 Woody Stephens at Belmont Park next weekend, according to Tres Abbott, who was overseeing the horse's training for owner Tom McKenna and trainer Miguel Hernandez.

Conquest Mo Money worked three furlongs in 36.20 seconds over the Fair Hill dirt track, but was later diagnosed with the injury. 

McKenna owns a 1,200-acre Thoroughbred breeding facility in New Mexico.

Belmont Park

Weather: Clear

Main track: Fast

Temp.: 65

ELMONT, N.Y. – With less than half the prospective lineup for the Belmont Stakes on the grounds as of Friday, prerace workouts have been few and far between here. That made the appearances of Patch and Tapwrit noteworthy when the Todd Pletcher-trained stablemates walked onto the main track to breeze in company shortly before 9 a.m. on a picture-perfect Friday at Belmont Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Classic Empire, the likely favorite for the 149th Belmont Stakes next Saturday at Belmont Park, was sent through his only serious move leading into the third jewel of the Triple Crown, breezing a half-mile in 50 seconds early Friday over a fast Churchill Downs surface.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – An across-the-board 10 percent increase in purses for the final 14 days of the spring meet at Churchill Downs will take effect Thursday, track officials have announced.

Purses for a 38-day meet that began April 29 and ends June 30 are projected to total $12.7 million, up from the original $12.3 million budgeted, according to a media release issued Friday. The increase is attributable to record all-sources handle during Kentucky Derby week, when $285.1 million was wagered over a six-day period, up 7 percent from the corresponding 2016 dates.

Conquest Mo Money, who was supplemented to the final two legs of the Triple Crown for $150,000 before he finished seventh in the Preakness, has been taken out of consideration for the Belmont Stakes and will run instead in the Grade 2, $500,000 Woody Stephens Stakes on the Belmont Stakes undercard June 10, co-owner Tom McKenna said Thursday.