ELMONT, N.Y. – Cafe Americano is not as accomplished as her Chad Brown-trained stablemates Cambier Parc and Newspaperofrecord, but she may have as good a chance to win Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational.

On Sunday, Cafe Americano worked a half-mile in 48.35 seconds over the Belmont Park turf course, breezing in company with the Grade 1-winning older male Robert Bruce and more than holding her own. She had a head on him at the wire, though Jose Ortiz did have a hammerlock on Robert Bruce in the stretch.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Thursday’s 12-race July 4 program will be highlighted by a $50,000 starter-allowance stakes at 1 1/2 miles on the turf, which lured a familiar-looking field of nine older horses.

The race features a rematch among the first three finishers of a similar event on May 27 – Salute the Colonel, Marshall Eddy, and Whisky N Roses. Also in the field is Second Mate, winner of the restricted Soldier’s Dancer Stakes over a sloppy track on June 8.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine television personality Dawn Lupul has left Woodbine Entertainment Group to pursue a career in the health and fitness field. Sunday marked Lupul’s final day on the Woodbine simulcast feed.

Lupul posted a Twitter message announcing the news prior to Sunday’s card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Despite having won his three previous starts by a combined margin of more than 17 lengths, Jalen Journey ran arguably the best race of his career in defeat when beaten three-quarters of a length by Diamond Oops in Saturday’s Grade 3 Smile Sprint at Gulfstream Park. It also might have been the last race he’ll run for trainer Kathleen O’Connell.

Jalen Journey, who is owned by Erven Samsel’s Commonwealth Stable, left O’Connell’s barn Monday with his destination Lexington, Ky., for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July sale.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Queen’s Plate winner One Bad Boy will remain in Canada and run in the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie on July 23, according to trainer Richard Baltas.

The Prince of Wales Stakes, run over 1 3/16 miles on Fort Erie’s dirt track, is the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – All-sources handle at the Churchill Downs spring meet that ended Saturday averaged more than $13.1 million per card, up 10.2 percent over the corresponding 2018 meet, according to figures released Monday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

Gross all-sources handle at the 38-day meet, which began April 27, was $499,766,224, up by the same 10.2 percent over the spring meet last year, when 38 dates also were run. Ontrack handle figures were not immediately available.

Louisiana Downs and its sister track Indiana Grand will combine for a new pick four on Tuesdays through Sept. 24. The wager was approved last week by the Louisiana Racing Commission.

The Super Tuesday Pick 4 comprises two races from each track – the sixth and seventh from Indiana Grand and the second and third from Louisiana Downs. It is a 50-cent minimum and will have a reduced takeout of 15 percent. The normal takeout is 25 percent, according to the commission.

It’s My Money, winner of the $65,000 Pan Zareta division of the Texas Stallion Stakes last month at Lone Star Park, is being pointed to the $100,000 fillies division of the Texas Thoroughbred Futurity, trainer George R. Bryant said. The 5 1/2-furlong race is July 14 at Lone Star.

It’s My Money broke from the rail in the Pan Zareta, set the pace, and prevailed by a half-length in the five-furlong race June 23.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Will Call, a graded stakes winner who earned $354,911 in 17 starts, all for owner-breeder Richard Klein, died of an apparent heart attack shortly after finishing 11th in the ninth race at Churchill on Saturday, closing day of the 38-day spring meet.

“He was our first winner, first stakes winner, and first graded winner for our sire Country Day,” said Klein. “I co-bred him with my dad. His death had nothing to do with the racetrack or anything like that. Just one of those things that happens.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kentucky Oaks winner Serengeti Empress will make her next start in the Grade 1 Test on Aug. 3 at Saratoga, further adding to an already loaded race expected to get two other standout 3-year-old fillies also based at Churchill Downs, Covfefe and Break Even, as well as the California-based star Bellafina.

Trainer Tom Amoss had seriously considered the Indiana Oaks, to be run July 13 at 1 1/16 miles, for Serengeti Empress before consulting Sunday with owner Joel Politi.