There are no notable changes from 2014 to the 37-race stakes schedule, worth just over $2 million, at Northlands Park this year.

The Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby is the marquee race at the meet, which begins May 1 and concludes Oct. 24. The 1 3/8-mile Canadian Derby, set for Aug. 15, is the only graded race at Northlands.

Supporting the Canadian Derby are the $50,000 Sonoma for 3-year-old fillies and two $50,000 stakes for 3-year-olds and up: the 1 1/16-mile Westerner and the 6 1/2-furlong Sun Sprint.

Michael Chamberlain has been named the announcer at Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La., according to a release issued by the track Tuesday. The meet opens April 8. Evangeline also announced that Corey Veazey has been promoted to racing secretary, while Ramiro Flores has been named track superintendent.

ARCADIA, Calif. -- Trainer Jack Carava won the 1,000th race of his career Saturday in the first race with Perfect Set. Typically modest, Carava deflected praise for his accomplishment.

“It’s good for me, and it’s good for the help. A lot of the people working for me have been with me a long time,” said Carava, 48. “They have as much to do with it as anyone.”

Carava was a longtime assistant to Jerry Fanning and first started training a handful of horses on his own while still in Fanning’s employ in 1986. He went out on his own in 1993.

Texas Red has been declared off the Kentucky Derby trail because of a lingering issue with a foot abscess, trainer Keith Desormeaux said Tuesday from Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif.

The more they asked, the more he gave. Steven Wells accomplished the improbable in the Santa Anita Betting Challenge, riding a relatively low first day score all the way to victory in the two-day event.

Will Rogers Downs near Tulsa, Okla., launches its 30-date Thoroughbred meet on Monday with a restructured calendar, a twilight racing series, and packed stable area. The season runs through May 26. 

Will Rogers is opening its meet a week later this year to flow better with the recently-concluded meet at Sam Houston, said Will Rogers racing secretary Jesse Ullery. The season also will run later into May.

Jockey Corey Nakatani, who fell in an accident in the fifth race at Santa Anita on Sunday, believes he has a broken collarbone, agent Tony Matos said Sunday.

Nakatani and Matos were still awaiting X-ray confirmation at Huntington Memorial Trauma Center in nearby Pasadena, where Nakatani was transported after the accident. But Matos said Nakatani "thinks he's got a broken collarbone."

"He should know. He's broken it three times," Matos said.

A group of 15 3-year-olds were entered Sunday for Saturday’s Grade 3, $550,000 Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park, resulting in three exclusions due to the track’s 12-horse starting-gate limit, and Turfway not having an also-eligible list for its signature race.

Although entries closed Sunday, Spiral post positions will not be drawn until approximately 12:45 p.m. on Wednesday, when a draw luncheon is hosted at the Horseshoe Casino of Cincinnati, which sponsors the Spiral.

Caesars Entertainment, with Horseshoe Casino being one of its entities, is part owner in Turfway Park.

The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association has rejected a protest by Terry Finley contesting the results of the organization’s presidential election last December, and confirmed the result that incumbent Rick Violette won a second term.

Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. will be back in federal court Monday in Manhattan in a last-ditch effort to have his appeal of a 10-year banishment handed him by New York racing regulators heard.

Dutrow will appear before Judge Robert A. Katzmann, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District, seeking to have a suit he filed in Feb. 2013 against the New York State Gaming Commission (formerly the New York State Racing and Wagering Board) and the Association of Racing Commissioners International heard.