Jockey Marlon St. Julien, who injured his spine in a one-horse spill at the start of a race last Saturday night at Prairie Meadows, still was in an intensive-care unit as of Wednesday. St. Julien underwent surgery on Sunday to relieve pressure on his spinal cord.

Pinch Hit, Dreamcall, and Divine Dutchess are drawn in posts 1, 2, and 3 for the $50,000 Jack Bishop Stakes on Friday night at Prairie Meadows, and they appear to be the three principal players in this two-turn dirt stakes for fillies and mares.

ARCADIA, Calif. – City of Light, winner of three consecutive graded stakes since Christmas, will run as far as 1 1/4 miles for the first time in Saturday’s Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita.

Trainer Mike McCarthy considered City of Light for the Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile Handicap, a $1.2 million race June 9 at Belmont Park, but has opted for the $500,000 Gold Cup.

“He can walk right out of his own stall and into the paddock,” McCarthy said. “He’s had some good works, and I’m pleased with his attitude.”

Mr. Jagermeister, an unusually talented Minnesota-bred, has so far only been a dirt sprinter, but the 3-year-old Canterbury Park-based colt might be taking his talents to turf.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The most popular horse around Santa Anita this year may not be Triple Crown hopeful Justify but the 10-year-old gelding Soi Phet, the winner of the $102,070 Crystal Water Stakes last Sunday.

Justify has the national fame, but Soi Phet has gained widespread admiration for his durability and the tenacity he displayed in winning Sunday’s one-mile turf race by a head.

The former owners of the East Boston-racetrack Suffolk Downs have reached a long-term lease agreement with the owners of the Great Barrington Fairgrounds property to conduct live racing on the grounds as early as next year, provided that massive renovations to the former racetrack are completed and racing-friendly legislation is approved in the state.

West Coast, second in the Dubai World Cup and Pegasus World Cup in his last two starts, is getting a freshening after returning from Dubai and will have a campaign focused on the late summer, fall, and early part of next year, trainer Bob Baffert said.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill Downs has announced a purse increase of 10 percent for overnight races for the second half of its 38-day spring meet, due largely to strong wagering handle during Kentucky Derby week.

The increase becomes effective next Thursday, May 31, and will continue through the end of the meet, June 30. An average of $4,000 will be added to the purse all non-stakes races.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The lone allowance on a nine-race Friday card that starts at 12:45 p.m. Eastern could have Tamit as a lukewarm favorite in an oversubscribed lineup of fillies and mares going a mile on turf.

Trained by Norm Casse, who registered his first two career victories earlier at the meet, Tamit will be making her first start in six months following a lengthy series of workouts in Florida and Kentucky. Owned by Robert Masterson of Tepin fame, Tamit will break from post 3 and will be ridden by Gabriel Saez in the $55,000 first-level race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Justify may have been the most noteworthy undefeated stakes winner running last week at Pimlico, but he wasn’t the only one.

One day before Justify registered his fifth victory in as many starts in the Preakness, Imprimis ran his record to a perfect 4 for 4 with a much easier 5 1/4-length triumph in the Jim McKay Turf Sprint. And like Justify, Imprimis did not even begin his career until February of 2018.