Horse Racing Radio Network will once again provide the exclusive Triple Crown national radio broadcast.

Ghostzapper did not race often, but when he did, he made quite the impression. He won nine times in 11 starts, beat one of the strongest Breeders’ Cup Classic fields ever assembled, was named Horse of the Year and champion older male in 2004, and recorded the fastest Beyer Speed Figure since the numbers have been published.

Isn’t He Clever, the winner of the Borderland Derby at Sunland Park in February, has been transferred from trainer Henry Dominguez to Steve Asmussen, owner J. Kirk Robison told Churchill Downs publicity staff on Sunday.

Isn’t He Clever is currently based at Churchill Downs with Asmussen and is being considered for the Kentucky Derby. Isn’t He Clever finished eighth behind Kentucky Derby hopeful Bodemeister in the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park on April 14 in his most recent start for the New Mexico-based Dominguez.

Harold McCormick, co-owner of 2009 Horse of the year Rachel Alexandra, died Thursday night, according to an announcement posted online by Stonestreet Stables, the majority partner in Rachel Alexandra.

The purse distribution for the Daily Racing Form/National Thoroughbred Racing Association National Handicapping Championship has been tweaked , with the winner of the 2013 event to get 50 percent of the total purse, rather than a guaranteed $1 million, tournament officials said on Friday.

In England this week racing’s focus is on 3-year-olds, with the sophomore class of 2012 sorting itself out in advance of the season’s first classic, the 2000 Guineas on May 5 at Newmarket, but the results of Thursday’s Group 3 Craven Stakes at Newmarket might not have done much to clear the Guineas picture.

A 68-year-old man from New York has won the chance to place a $100,000 win bet on the Kentucky Derby on May 5 at Churchill Downs, Churchill announced on Thursday.

The man, Joel Einhorn, won the chance through a contest sponsored by Churchill, NBC Sports, and CNBC. He said that he has been a racing fan since 1960, when he saw Kelso win an allowance race at Aqueduct.

"I've been an owner, a spectator, and a handicapper for over 50 years," Einhorn said in a statement distributed by Churchill. "This is the fruition of a lifetime dream."

One horse died and five others suffered what are believed to be only superficial cuts as a result of an accident involving an equine transportation truck and a car Wednesday night in South Carolina. The six horses were being transported from the Palm Meadows training center in south Florida to Fair Hill, Md.

Two van drivers and an unspecified number of grooms were reported to be in good shape, according to Bill Terrill, the president of Ebert Transportation, the company whose truck was involved in the accident.

Rousing Sermon, third in the Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds on April 1, will start in the Kentucky Derby, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.

Owned by breeders Larry and Marianne Williams of Idaho, Rousing Sermon has won 2 of 9 starts and $404,000. He won the California Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita last October and was second in the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park last December.

Hollendorfer said a closer such as Rousing Sermon could be helped by a quick pace in the Kentucky Derby.

On Thursday, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin got his first look at Alpha on the track since his runner-up finish in the Wood Memorial on April 7 and was satisfied with what he saw in the colt’s 1 1/8-mile gallop over Belmont Park’s main track.

Alpha missed about four days of training after developing an infection from cuts suffered in the shin of his left foreleg, incurred during the running of the Wood, in which he was beaten a neck by Gemologist.