A stable employee for the suspended trainer Otabek Umarov has been suspended by the Kentucky stewards for removing a horse from the trainer’s barn several days prior to Umarov being ejected from Churchill Downs in Louisville, according to stewards.

William Woodward Sr. and Arthur B. “Bull” Hancock Jr., two giants of racing and breeding, have been elected to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in the Pillars of the Turf category, the museum announced Wednesday.

Wheelock Whitney, a prominent Minnesota civic leader, sports owner, philanthropist, and Jockey Club member, died on May 20 at his home on Promise Hill Farm in Independence, Minn., near Minneapolis. He was 89.

In racing, Whitney was part-owner with the late Lou Rowan of the great stayer and handicap horse Quicken Tree, by Royal Orbit, who won the 1970 Santa Anita Handicap and San Juan Capistrano Invitational Handicap, and in 1968 traveled to New York to win the two-mile Jockey Club Gold Cup over Damascus.

Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist will miss the Belmont Stakes on June 11 due to an illness, trainer Doug O’Neill told Daily Racing Form Tuesday morning.

O’Neill said that Nyquist has an elevated white blood-cell count and that his temperature, after returning to normal Monday afternoon, was up to 101.2 degrees mid-morning Tuesday. His normal temperature is 100.3, O’Neill said.

O’Neill said that Nyquist would be put on stronger antibiotics to treat the illness and that he would return to California when he’s healthy.

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Exaggerator finally beats Nyquist, wins Preakness

The Golden Pick 6 at Golden Gate Fields went unclaimed for the 48^th straight day Sunday when multiple bettors picked all six winners.

The Golden Pick 6 is a jackpot-style wager that pays out when only one ticket selects all six winners. The pool going into Thursday’s card has now risen to $974,173 going into the day’s races.

The wager was last cashed on Feb. 27 and has been building for 48 race days.

For the 47^th consecutive race, the Golden Pick 6 at Golden Gate Fields was not won on Saturday, meaning Sunday’s jackpot payout will begin with $934,832 in the pool.

There were 11 perfect tickets Saturday, returning $7,705.88 for the 20-cent wager. Had 75-1 shot Classy n’Cool won the final race, there would have been a $1,019,596 payout with only one perfect ticket. Although Classy n’Cool finished ahead of favored Adrian’s Girl in the $8,000 maiden claimer, she finished ninth in the race.

Betting on the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Saturday was up sharply and set a record, buoyed by a larger field and a comparison with depressed figures from last year’s edition of the race.

Betting on the 11-horse Preakness, won by the second choice, Exaggerator, was $61.3 million, up 16.2 percent from $52.7 million on an eight-horse field last year, according to a chart-by-chart comparison of the races. Betting on the entire 14-race card was strong as well, rising 10.5 percent to a record $94.9 million, according to the charts.

BALTIMORE – Live by his speed, die by his speed.

That was the game plan trainer Doug O’Neill wanted to employ for his Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist in Saturday’s $1.5 million Preakness Stakes at sloppy Pimlico.

“If we’re going to get beat, let’s get beat being aggressive and not trying to get cute and get in trouble,” O’Neill said.

The Golden Pick 6 at Golden Gate Fields has a carryover of $898,504 for Saturday after a formful Friday that saw three favorites win and the other three winners go off between 3-1 and 3.6-1.

The jackpot is paid out when there is a single ticket selecting all six winners. On Friday, six winners returned $460.36 each on the 20-cent bet.

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