Santa Anita has cut the purses of five stakes, including two graded stakes for 3-year-olds, increased the purses of three stakes, and scheduled 12 turf sprint stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs for its winter-spring meeting that begins on Dec. 26.

Santa Anita recently published the 94-race stakes schedule on its website. The meeting runs through June 21. One race has been reintroduced -- the Grade 2 Californian Stakes, a $200,000 race at 1 1/8 miles, will be run on April 18. The race was not held in 2019.

Remington Park’s two new confirmed cases of equine herpesvirus posted late Thursday by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture are asymptomatic cases and both horses have been placed in isolation in a small, empty barn on the backstretch, Matt Vance, the track’s vice president of operations, said late Friday.

Vance said the horses are not sick. The state’s posting on the animals indicated neither had a fever. The initial case at Remington arose last week. A 3-year-old filly was euthanized Nov. 12 and tests returned on Nov. 14 confirmed EHV-1.

The 2020 Maryland Jockey Club stakes schedule released Friday has a familiar look but includes several significant tweaks.

The Laurel Park fall meet, which runs from the beginning of the year through April, will have 21 stakes while the Preakness meet at Pimlico in May will have 17. The 38 races are the same number as a year ago and their total value of $6.325 million is a hair higher than in 2018.

The complexion of the $1 million Land of Enchantment card Wednesday at Zia Park changed dramatically on Friday, when it was confirmed by a track official that nine horses from the seven stakes would be scratched by stewards, including chief contenders in the $250,000 Zia Park Derby and $250,000 Zia Park Oaks. The move comes after three confirmed cases of equine herpesvirus at Remington Park in Oklahoma City.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Voodoo Song, second to Gucci Factor in the Mohawk and sixth most recently in the Artie Schiller on Nov. 9 at Aqueduct, has been sent west and is now with Richard Mandella, Mandella said Friday.

Voodoo Song was bred and is owned by Barry Schwartz, who has a home in the Santa Barbara area and in years past has had a runner or two based at Santa Anita during the winter.

Voodoo Song, a New York-bred, is winless in five starts this year but in 2018 won the Grade 1 Fourstardave at Saratoga for Linda Rice.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Mischiffie will seek her third win in her last four starts on Sunday when she goes in a five-furlong turf sprint – a second-level allowance that kicks off the card.

She won here during the summer meeting against maidens, and most recently was a first-level allowance winner at Santa Anita. That race was two months ago.

“I’ve been sitting waiting for this condition to go,” said her trainer, Phil D’Amato.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Flavien Prat, who rides United in the Hollywood Turf Cup on Friday for Richard Mandella, has landed mounts in all seven of the turf festival races next week, including a pair for fellow Frenchman Christophe Clement, who will use Prat aboard Candy Store in the Red Carpet on Thursday and Gucci Factor in the Seabiscuit on Saturday.

Gucci Factor has won four of his last five starts, most recently the Mohawk for New York-breds at Belmont Park.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Trainer Phil D’Amato will be taking aim at four of the seven turf festival stakes that highlight the final week of the Del Mar fall season next week, beginning with Tiny Tina in the Grade 3, $100,000 Red Carpet on Thanksgiving Day and concluding with Storm the Hill in the Grade 1, $300,000 Matriarch Stakes on closing day, Dec. 1.

But it’s Saturday when he will take perhaps his best swing, with a trio of Andesh, Cleopatra’s Strike, and Prince Earl in the Grade 2, $200,000 Seabiscuit Handicap for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Churchill Downs fall meet once again will end with a flurry of terrific racing as six graded stakes with purses totaling almost $2 million will send horsemen and fans on their way into winter. Here’s a preview of the closing-week stakes:

DEL MAR, Calif. – The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday postponed a discussion and possible vote on a proposal to restrict the use of whips until its December meeting to allow wider national discussion.

Vice-chairman Oscar Gonzales requested the measure be tabled to allow the racing board an opportunity to inform the newly created Thoroughbred Safety Coalition about the rule changes and “let them know what is on the horizon and that California plans to lead the way.”