ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita announced Thursday it has canceled its Friday card, due to a dire weather forecast that calls for as much as five inches of rain in the area. The track will also not be open for simulcasting.

The storm is forecast to begin before dawn Friday and is expected to bring heavy rain, high winds, and the possibility of local flooding.

Santa Anita is scheduled to resume racing Saturday. Racing is also scheduled this weekend for Sunday and Monday, owing to the Prtesidents Day holiday on Monday.

The New York State Gaming Commission has refused to issue Jeffrey Englehart a license to train or own horses after Englehart tested positive for marijuana in a recent random drug test.

Englehart, the son of Chris and brother of Jeremiah – both trainers in New York – confirmed that he tested positive for marijuana. The commission, which issued the ruling to refuse Englehart a license on Thursday, did not comment on the reason for the refusal.

The New York stewards scratched Bamboo Stick, Englehart’s lone entry on Thursday’s card at Aqueduct.

New York regulators on Thursday issued a 45-day suspension to a harness trainer and disqualified 11 Standardbred horses from races held early last year for positives for glaucine, a prohibited substance that turned up in a rash of post-race tests in the state last year.

Trainer Richard Johnson was given the 45-day suspension by the New York State Gaming Commission after a horse he trained, Rubber Duck, tested positive for glaucine after two races at Yonkers Raceway last year. The gambling commission said that both positives were in excess of one nanogram per milliliter.

From the time the horses crossed the wire in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile until the Holy Bull was run on Feb. 4, Classic Empire, last year’s champion 2-year-old male, was the acknowledged favorite for the Kentucky Derby on May 6. But his third-place finish in the Holy Bull has left the Derby scene as muddy and roiling as the Ohio River after a springtime storm, with the likes of Irish War Cry and McCraken ascending in the standings.

WHO’S HOT

Kentucky Derby-winning trainers Bob Baffert (American Anthem and Mastery), John Shirreffs (Gormley and Royal Mo), and Todd Pletcher (Always Dreaming, Battalion Runner, and Tapwrit) all have multiple runners on the top 20 list. Other Derby-winning trainers who have a runner on the list are Graham Motion (Irish War Cry) and Doug O’Neill (Iliad).

Marcus Vitali, the controversial trainer who has been banned by several tracks along the East Coast, has been allowed to enter a horse at Parx after receiving a stay of an ejection order from the Philadelphia-area track, according to officials and rulings.

Arrogate, last year's Eclipse Award-winning 3-year-old male, worked a half-mile Tuesday morning at Santa Anita, his first drill since his victory in the $12 million Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 28.

Arrogate was given an official time of 48.60 seconds, and trainer Bob Baffert said he clocked Arrogate galloping out five furlongs in 1:01. Jockey Martin Garcia, his regular work rider, was aboard. Arrogate went by himself, without company.

"He got lonely there in the stretch. He was just galloping along," Baffert said.

Two stakes that were previously run at Arlington Park outside of Chicago will be run instead at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky., this year, according to a stakes schedule for Churchill’s spring meet that was released Monday by the parent company of both tracks, Churchill Downs Inc.

The two stakes, the Matron and the Chicago Handicap, were cut by Arlington this year in an effort to push more purse money into the track’s overnight races. The $100,000 Matron, which has been run for 79 years, will be run at Churchill on May 20, while the $100,000 Chicago will be run June 24.

ARCADIA, Calif. – On a day when all six winners paid $10 or less, the pick six paid $2,964, resulting in a two-day carryover of $15,943 in the single-ticket jackpot pool.

The single-ticket provision of the pick six is paid out only if there is just one winning ticket.

The winners of Friday’s pick-six races were Kristi’s Copilot ($7.80), Merrily Merrily ($3.20), Unapologetic ($4.40), Finallygotabentley ($10), Top of the Game ($4), and Sharp Samurai ($8.60).

Merrily Merrily, Unapologetic, and Top of the Game were favored.

The star-crossed breeding career of three-time Eclipse Award winner Royal Delta came to a tragic end this week, when the mare died due to foaling complications in Ireland. Her Galileo filly survived.

This was the first foal for Royal Delta, 9, who was retired in November 2013. She was exported to Ireland, where she was boarded at Coolmore, which stands the globally prominent sire Galileo. She did not get in foal to that stallion in 2014; the following year, she aborted the foal. She was bred in 2016, resulting in this filly.