ARCADIA, Calif. – True Valour, the winner of the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes at Santa Anita on Feb. 9, will miss Saturday’s Grade 1 Kilroe Mile because of an injury.

Trainer Simon Callaghan said in a text message on Wednesday that True Valour “had a minor setback and will have 60 days off.”

Owned by Qatar Racing, True Valour, 5, won his third stakes and his first in the United States in the Thunder Road Stakes at a mile on turf. True Valour has had four starts with Callaghan since he was imported from Ireland last summer.

ARCADIA, Calif. – In the stretch of the Unusual Heat Turf Classic at Santa Anita on Jan. 26, Marckie’s Water was losing touch with the leaders rapidly. The 5-2 second choice, Marckie’s Water finished last of 10, 8 3/4 lengths behind race winner Rye.

Not long after the race, Marckie’s Water was diagnosed with a breathing problem, an entrapped epiglottis that required surgery.

“Last time, he had an excuse,” trainer Richard Baltas said this week.

The first time Shug McGaughey ran horses in the Kentucky Derby, he was all of 33 years old and on the fast track to what has proven to be a Hall of Fame career. He was hoping a Derby win would come quickly, “to get it over with,” as he put it this week.

But it took another 29 years for McGaughey to finally tick off that box and get a Derby win, with Orb in 2013. And the wait – which included a runner-up finish by Easy Goer in 1989 – made it all the sweeter, he said.

“I think it made me appreciate it that much more,” McGaughey said on a national teleconference.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Jack Van Berg, a 3-year-old colt named for the late Hall of Fame trainer, could go favored in Friday’s sixth race at Oaklawn Park. The optional $62,500 claiming race for 3-year-olds carries first-level allowance conditions. It will be run at six furlongs.

Jack Van Berg contested the pace and finished second at the same level and distance in his last start March 10. He was cutting back from a sixth-place finish going 1 1/16 miles here. Jermaine Bridgmohan has the mount for Muddy Waters Stables and trainer Tom Van Berg.

WHO’S HOT

The one-two finishers from both the Louisiana Derby and Sunland Park Derby last weekend are the four newcomers to this week’s Derby Watch top 20, which is increasingly driven by the points list as Derby Day draws closer because you can’t win it if you’re not in it. By My Standards and Spinoff, the top two in the Louisiana Derby, are both 20-1 on the Kentucky Derby line set by Mike Watchmaker, Daily Racing Form’s national handicapper. Watchmaker has both Cutting Humor and Anothertwistafate, the top two in the Sunland Park Derby, at 30-1.

Carlo Vaccarezza announced this week from South Florida that he is giving up his training career and will soon disperse his stable of about 40 horses to other trainers.

“I’ve just got too many other things going,” said Vaccarezza, 66. “It’s taking a toll on me.”

Through last weekend, Vaccarezza had won 101 races from 729 starters since he began training on his own in November 2013. His stable has earned $3,053,014. In the preceding years, he was best known as the owner and breeder of Little Mike, a multiple Grade 1 winner who earned more than $3.5 million.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark.--The champion Shamrock Rose is heading back to Kentucky.

Trainer Mark Casse said Tuesday that Shamrock Rose is being pointed for the Grade 1, $300,000 Madison on April 6 at Keeneland. She won at the Lexington, Ky., track a year ago, taking the Grade 2 Raven Run one start before capturing the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs.

Irad Ortiz Jr., who was aboard for the Breeders’ Cup, has the mount in the Madison, said Casse.

Horses are not being allowed to ship in or out of Golden Gate Fields in Northern California due to the death of a horse this weekend that tested positive for the highly contagious disease equine herpesvirus, according to state officials.

Trainer Todd Pletcher’s 3-year-olds are starting to come to hand, punctuated by Cutting Humor’s track-record win Sunday in the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby. 

Pletcher on Saturday sent out Spinoff to a close runner-up finish in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds and, on March 9, the promising Outshine was second in the Grade 2 Tampa Bay Downs Derby. 

The horses are Pletcher’s leading Kentucky Derby points earners, with Cutting Humor sitting fifth with 50 on the latest list put out by Churchill Downs. Spinoff is ninth with 40 and Outshine is 20th with 20. 

A day after announcing that the Grade 3 Kentucky Downs Turf Sprint had become the track’s first Win and You’re In Breeders’ Cup Challenge Race, Kentucky Downs on Tuesday released its full stakes schedule, topped by Grade 3 Kentucky Turf Cup, a race that with Kentucky-bred purse incentives carries a purse of up to $1 million.