ARCADIA, Calif. – California trainers Mike Pender and Marcelo Polanco were told by Santa Anita management over the weekend to vacate their stalls, according to two track officials who declined to speak publicly.

Pender, who has approximately 19 horses, was cited for an undisclosed horse-welfare issue, while Polanco, who has five horses in his care, was cited for training a horse on behalf of another person, according to the track officials.

It was not immediately clear when Pender and Polanco would be required to disperse their horses.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Following a successful return to the races in Saturday’s Grade 2 Dixie Stakes on turf at Pimlico, Catholic Boy will return to the dirt for his next start in the Grade 2, $700,000 Suburban Stakes at Belmont Park on July 6, trainer Jonathan Thomas said Monday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Todd Pletcher is throwing out Spinoff’s 18th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby and plans to run him in the $1.5 million Belmont Stakes on June 8. On Sunday, Spinoff worked a half-mile in 48.72 seconds over the Belmont training track, his first work back since the Derby.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap keeps getting better and better.

Thunder Snow, the two-time winner of the Dubai World Cup, is now targeting the Grade 1, $1.2 million Met Mile at Belmont Park on June 8, according to a report in The Sporting Life.

Though Thunder Snow is nominated to the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot, trainer Saeed bin Suroor said he is more likely to run in the Met Mile.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – All wins are good but some are a little better than others. A case in point is River Front’s maiden victory here Sunday for trainer Ralph Nicks. River Front is the third foal out of the champion mare Havre de Grace to make the races and is now the third winner in a family that also includes older sister Graceful Princess and younger sibling Heavenly Grace, both of whom are also trained by Nicks. All three Havre de Grace offspring are owned by Mandy Pope’s Whisper Hill Farm.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Cookie Dough is coming off arguably the best performance of her career, a third-place finish in the prestigious Black-Eyed Susan last Friday at Pimlico. But she will not be coming back to trainer Stanley Gold’s barn at Gulfstream Park.

Instead, Cookie Dough, who set the pace to midstretch before tiring to finish 2 3/4 lengths behind Point of Honor in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan, has been sent to trainer Kiaran McLaughlin at Belmont Park to be pointed to the one-mile, Grade 1 Acorn at Belmont on June 8.

BALTIMORE – Alwaysmining and Win Win Win, the two Maryland-based horses in Saturday’s Preakness, appear to have come out of the race well, according to their trainers. Although neither will move on to the Belmont Stakes, they both are expected to target other stakes this summer.

Alwaysmining moved up to challenge pacesetting Warrior’s Charge and Anothertwistafate nearing the far turn of the 1 3/16-mile Preakness but tired during the stretch run and finished 11th. The Maryland-bred is a popular local runner and ended up the 6-1 fourth choice in the 13-horse field.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The first goal was simply to win a race at Del Mar.

Last spring, trainer Michael McCarthy approached two clients – Bruce Treitman and Aron Wellman of Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners – with the idea of claiming Ohio, a 7-year-old Brazilian-bred gelding who was graded stakes-placed in 2016.

“We thought we’d get ourselves a horse that would be live at Del Mar,” McCarthy recalled on Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Bellafina, the six-time stakes winner who was fifth in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 3, has returned to trainer Simon Callaghan’s stable at Santa Anita.

Callaghan said on Sunday that Bellafina is scheduled to have her next start in the Grade 1 Test Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs at Saratoga on Aug. 3 and is unlikely to have a race in the interim.

“Most likely, we’ll point for the Test,” Callaghan said. “We’ll take our time with her.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – For her stakes debut, the Kentucky-based filly My Majestic Rose has been sent to Santa Anita for next Sunday’s Grade 2 Summertime Oaks.

The assignment will be a significant test for My Majestic Rose, who won a maiden special weight race for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs on May 2, leaving trainer Rodolphe Brisset sufficiently impressed to plan for an interstate trip.

“We feel with the maturation that she has shown she looks competitive in that spot,” Brisset said.