HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gunnevera, who has been on the farm recuperating from a deep hoof wound suffered during the running of the Dubai World Cup on March 31, will return to Gulfstream Park West next week to begin preparations for the second half of his 2018 campaign, trainer Antonio Sano reported Friday.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Next Shares is winless in four starts since joining trainer Richard Baltas’s California stable last fall.

The losing streak has not diminished expectations that Next Shares can win an important stakes on turf, perhaps as quickly as Monday’s Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Monomoy Girl is scheduled to breeze Sunday at Churchill Downs in her second major work since the filly won the May 4 Kentucky Oaks for trainer Brad Cox.

Monomoy Girl went a half-mile last Sunday in 48.80 seconds.

“She came out of the Oaks in great shape,” Cox said.

The Grade 1 Acorn on the Belmont undercard is the next scheduled start for Monomoy Girl, a winner in six of seven career starts.

Wise Dan for turf champ

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – With an outstanding win under his belt, McCraken is working at a serious clip toward his litmus test in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile on the June 9 Belmont Stakes undercard.

McCraken is tentatively scheduled to breeze Sunday at Churchill, according to trainer Ian Wilkes, in what would be his third work since a comeback victory on the May 5 Kentucky Derby undercard. The 4-year-old colt went an easy half-mile in 51.20 seconds on May 15, then came back with a bullet five-furlong drill in 58 seconds on May 21.

“I’m very happy with him,” Wilkes said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – California trainer Mark Tsagalakis is switching careers.

Tsagalakis started his last horse last Sunday at Santa Anita and is in the process of launching a consignment business for yearling and broodmare sales in Kentucky, he said Thursday.

Tsagalakis and business partner Terry Nickell will operate Endeavor Farm, and Endeavor Sales, from a farm in Midway, Ky.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – After memorable Kentucky Derby and Preakness weekends, Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen will be looking to complete his own Triple Crown of sorts.

On Derby Day, May 5, Asmussen became just the second trainer in North American racing history with 8,000 career wins when Lookin At Lee won a Churchill Downs allowance. And on Preakness Friday and Saturday (May 18-19) at Pimlico, Asmussen earned $50,000 in a trainers’ competition when his stable won for four stakes among other sharp performances.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The Medaglia d’Oro colt purchased for $1.2 million at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic sale in Maryland on Tuesday arrived in California on Wednesday. Thursday morning, the colt was put to work at Santa Anita, jogging a mile.

The expensive price tag for the colt has left bloodstock agent Dennis O’Neill with a clear goal for the summer.

“The Del Mar Futurity,” he replied. “We’ll work our way back from there.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Nick Nosowenko is back on the Queen’s Plate trail this season with Cooler Mike, who won a key allowance prep at Woodbine on May 20.

Nosowenko has had one previous Queen’s Plate starter, Rackman, who finished 12th in the Plate back in 2013. Nosowenko said Rackman provided much needed experience for his training career when it comes to preparing a horse for the 1 1/4-mile Queen’s Plate.

Victor Carrasco, who badly broke his lower right leg in two places in a spill at Delaware Park last September, galloped horses for the first time since being injured Tuesday at Laurel Park.

Carrasco, the Eclipse Award-winning apprentice of 2013 and one of the top riders in Maryland, has put in countless hours of rehab in recent months and now is taking the next step in his recovery.

“It feels good to be back working,” Carrasco said. “My legs are getting stronger every day.”

ELMONT, N.Y. – Audible, deemed by many the biggest threat to derail Justify’s bid for a Triple Crown, will not run in the June 9 Belmont Stakes, his connections announced Friday.

Trainer Todd Pletcher said he does not feel that Audible, the Grade 1 Florida Derby winner, is training the way he was prior to the Kentucky Derby, where he finished third, and plans call for him to be freshened for a summer campaign that could begin in the Grade 2 Jim Dandy Stakes at Saratoga on July 28.