CYPRESS, Calif. - When Nevada Beach won a one-mile race for maidens at Santa Anita on April 19, he was not rated as one of Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert’s leading 3-year-olds of 2025.

Slightly more than two months later, the rankings have shifted.

Nevada Beach won the $100,000 Los Alamitos Derby in his third start on Saturday, and is likely bound for the Grade 1 Travers Stakes at Saratoga on Aug. 23.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Journalism worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds at Santa Anita on Sunday, three weeks after his second-place finish in the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga.

Trainer Michael McCarthy said Sunday’s workout was an indication of Journalism’s desire for more serious exercise.

“He was acting like he wanted to do something,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy timed Journalism galloping out five furlongs in a minute.

Churchill Downs’ Derby City Six, a jackpot-style Pick 6 that had to be paid out on Sunday’s card, was worth $9,524.28.

Jackpot-style bets usually pay the bulk of the betting pool if there’s only one winning ticket, but the entire pool of wagers on such bets has to be paid out on the closing day of a race meet, as Sunday was. The Derby City Six, which has a 20-cent base bet, wasn’t hit again Saturday and more than $1.4 million carried over into Sunday’s sequence, races 6-11. The total pool for the bet was more than $7.1 million.

Tom Morgan, one of the best-known jockey agents in Chicago, died this weekend at 72.

For decades, Morgan, a Michigan native, booked mounts for an array of riders at the various Chicago tracks. Regardless of how live his jockey might be, Morgan, a gadfly who always came to work carrying a brown briefcase, seemed to be not only at the center of the racing-office dynamic, but an endless source of racing gossip and information.

D. Wayne Lukas, a horseman who revolutionized the sport of Thoroughbred racing while becoming one of the most accomplished trainers and iconic figures in the industry, died at his home Saturday evening after battling a blood infection. He was 89.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Reigning Canadian Horse of the Year Patches O’Houlihan was resting comfortably Sunday morning after he was vanned off after winning Saturday’s Grade 2 Highlander at Woodbine.

With Sofia Vives riding for trainer Bob Tiller, Patches O’Houlihan drifted out dramatically through the stretch during his front-running score over My Boy Prince in the six-furlong Highlander on the main turf in which he suffered a soft-tissue injury.

“Bob said he was comfortable through the night,” owner-breeder Frank DiGiulio Jr. said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill’s Derby City Six jackpot-style multi-race wager produced multiple winning tickets again Saturday, generating a carryover pool of $1,413,928 into Sunday’s card. The bet typically pays the bulk of the pool only if there’s a single winning ticket, but must be paid out entirely Sunday on closing day of the spring meeting here.

The bet has a 20-cent base and spans the card's last six races, 6-11, on Sunday. The first five races in the sequence are stakes, the nightcap a turf maiden with a full field of entrants.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association announced Saturday that the precautionary quarantines of Barns 60 and 63 at Saratoga have been lifted by the New York State Department of Agriculture effective immediately.

All horses stabled in those barns are again permitted to enter races as of Saturday, June 28, and to train with the general horse population beginning Sunday, June 29.

D. Wayne Lukas, a former high school basketball coach who became one of the most influential figures in the sport of Thoroughbred racing, has been hospitalized and is in poor health and will no longer be training horses, his family said in a statement released Sunday through Churchill Downs.

Kings River Knight tends to duplicate his success.

The 7-year-old gelding won his eighth stakes in Saturday’s $101,000 Bertrando Stakes for statebred milers at Los Alamitos, a race he also won in 2023. He has won the Crystal Water Stakes on turf for statebred milers at Santa Anita the last three years, including on May 24.

Kings River Knight has yet to win a stakes at Del Mar, a milestone he could reach as soon as the $150,000 California Dreamin’ Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on turf for California-breds on Aug. 2.