Beginning July 3, the late pick-5 at New York Racing Association tracks will be available for all bettors across the country, the company announced on Wednesday.

Since the inception of the wager at the beginning of the 2016 Saratoga meet, the late pick-5 was restricted to horse players who had a NYRA Bets advance-deposit wagering account or those who wagered ontrack or at an in-state simulcast facility. Typically, the late pick-5 handled about 20 percent of the early pick-5, which has always been open to all players.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Eddie Kenneally barn at Churchill Downs is sometimes surrounded by sightseers and media during morning training hours, at least during peak times. After all, Bob Baffert is on one side and Bill Mott is on the other.

But Kenneally warrants attention, too, at least from everyday horseplayers. As the final three-day stretch of the Churchill spring meet begins Thursday, Kenneally had sent out 16 winners, second only to Steve Asmussen.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Replicating the success Ivan Dalos had as an owner-breeder in 2018 might be a tough thing to do in 2019, but Avie’s Flatter could go a long way to helping if he were to give Dalos his first victory in the $1 million Queen’s Plate on Saturday at Woodbine.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - No one loves racing at Ellis Park more than “Big John” Hancock, but before the 29-day summer meet gets started Sunday at the western Kentucky track, the trainer has some unfinished business at Churchill. He will send out one of the favorites in Alec and Arthur in the Grade 3 Bashford Manor, one of three stakes that call an end to the 38-day Churchill meet Saturday.

Alec and Arthur, a Successful Appeal colt owned by Hat Creek Racing, has won two of three starts, ending with a June 6 allowance romp at Churchill with Tyler Gaffalione aboard.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine’s new $8 million inner turf course is scheduled to be used Friday for the first time. The first race on it is a $25,000 claimer.

The seven-furlong layout was the harness track from 1994 to 2017, when Woodbine’s Standardbred division was moved to Woodbine at Mohawk Park.

Jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson rode Dun Drum in a five-furlong trial race in lane 2 on the new course last Friday.

ELMONT PARK, N.Y. – Maryanorginger, who overcame trouble to win her career debut in the $150,000 Astoria Stakes, will be sidelined 60 days with cellulitis and a stress fracture in a hind leg, trainer Jeremiah Englehart said Monday.

Englehart said that Maryanorginger is at Dr. Patty Hogan’s farm in central New Jersey, and he hopes to bring the filly back for a fall and winter campaign.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Pat On the Back, who has won four New York-bred stakes in his last six starts, will make his next start against open company in the Grade 2, $300,000 John A. Nerud Stakes at Belmont on July 6, trainer Jeremiah Englehart said.

Pat On the Back, who won the Affirmed Success at six furlongs and the Commentator at a mile, will now try seven furlongs in the Nerud.

Last year, Pat On the Back won the Saginaw Stakes, a race restricted to New York-breds which this year will be run next Sunday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – If Newspaperofrecord could relax as well in the afternoon as she does in the morning, trainer Chad Brown could take her to the Grade 1, $750,000 Belmont Oaks on July 6 with supreme confidence.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Flavien Prat and trainer Doug O’Neill led their respective categories at the Santa Anita spring-summer meeting, which ended on Sunday.

From April 12 through Sunday, Prat won 30 races, six more than runner-up Joe Talamo. Prat was the second-leading rider at the track’s winter-spring meeting, which ran from Dec. 26 to April 7, finishing with 52 wins, four fewer than Joel Rosario.

ARCADIA, Calif. – No matter the vantage point, whether trackside or watching on a mobile phone 5,000 miles away, there was much to like about Amalfi Sunrise’s career debut in a maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies at Santa Anita on Sunday.

Amalfi Sunrise drew into the race from the also-eligible list and gave the most dazzling performance of a juvenile at the Santa Anita meeting, which ended on Sunday.