LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Corey Lanerie has ridden in over 25,000 races, winning more than 3,500. He has been the leading rider at Churchill Downs four times, and was voted this year’s winner of the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.

What he surprisingly hasn’t done is ride in the Kentucky Derby, something he is on course to change next week. Saturday morning he was named the jockey of longshot Harry’s Holiday by trainer Mike Maker, shortly after the rider worked the colt five furlongs in 1:02.60.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With the prospects of Bayern making the Kentucky Derby next Saturday growing increasingly doubtful, trainer Bob Baffert on Saturday morning said Bayern would run tonight at Churchill Downs in the Derby Trial.

Bayern currently ranks 23rd on the points list for prospective Derby runners, so he would need three horses ranked above him to drop out to make the Derby field.

The Derby Trial does not offer any points toward the Derby.

LEXINGTON - Average all-sources handle during the 15-day Keeneland spring meet dropped 7 percent compared to last year despite record attendance and a sharp uptick in ontrack wagering, according to figures released on Friday after the last card of the meet.

Average all-sources handle was $9.20 million, well below last year’s average all-sources handle figure of $9.92 million, according to the figures. Average ontrack handle, however, was up 6.9 percent to $1.26 million.

The 2014 Breeders’ Cup will not include the Marathon, run every year at the two-day event since 2008, the organization announced late Friday.

Run at 1 3/4 miles with a purse of $500,000, the Marathon was added to the Breeders’ Cup program as a way to encourage the breeding and running of distance horses, in an era in which North American breeders have been criticized for focusing on speed. The race has often been filled with horses that are not among the top tier of horses in the country but who are long-distance specialists.

William Hill, which operates 100 sports books in Nevada, opened betting Friday on which horse will be voted 2014 Horse of the Year, installing Wise Dan, winner of the award two years in a row, as the 4-1 favorite to repeat.

William Hill is the first gambling company in Nevada to offer Horse of the Year betting following a Tuesday decision by the Nevada Gaming Control Board to approve the bet type. Horse of the Year is determined by a vote of racing media and racetrack officials.

Jerry Meaux, chairman of the Louisiana Racing Commission since 2008, died Thursday afternoon following a head-on car collision near Lafayette, La., according to a release issued by the Louisiana State Police. He was 74.

Meaux was pronounced dead at the scene after the truck he was driving was struck by an oncoming vehicle that crossed the center line of LA Highway 342. The crash is under investigation. Blaire Duhon, the 22-year-old driver of the vehicle that hit Meaux, was arrested for DWI, vehicular homicide, and driving left of center, according to the release.

Curlin, a two-time Horse of the Year, two-time champion Ashado, jockey Alex Solis, and trainer Gary Jones were announced on Friday by the National Museum of Racing as the 2014 inductees to its Hall of Fame.

Four-time champion steeplechaser Flatterer was euthanized on April 24 at owner Bill Pape’s My Way Farm in Unionville, Pa., according to a report on thisishorseracing.com.  The Pennsylvania-bred son of Mo Bay was 35, and had become the oldest-living member of the Racing Hall of Fame of all time last February when he surpassed the longevity standard set by 1943 Triple Crown winner Count Fleet. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994.

The Breeders’ Cup Challenge Series will consist of 73 races in 13 countries this year, with the winners guaranteed a spot in one of the 14 Breeders’ Cup races scheduled for Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 at Santa Anita Park in Southern California.

The schedule this year includes 11 new races, though four races were dropped from last year’s lineup, leading to a net gain of seven races for the series. Included this year are a record seven races guaranteeing berths for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic, the richest race in the two-day event. Last year, six races offered berths in the Classic.

Cairo Prince, declared from the Kentucky Derby last Saturday by his connections due to injury, was found to have a chip in his left front ankle, but the prognosis is good for a return to racing later this year, according to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin.

McLaughlin said Dr. Larry Bramlage told him the chip was located in an unusual spot, which made it hard to find, and also made Cairo Prince very sore.

“Dr. Bramlage called it a vertical fracture instead of a horizontal one; a real bad spot, painful,” McLaughlin said.