GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr., a Churchill Downs-based rider who won five stakes races over Preakness weekend at Pimlico, on Sunday began serving a seven-day suspension for a riding infraction at Lone Star Park. It runs through Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Over the past four years, trainer Larry Jones would only stick around Churchill Downs in the spring through Derby week – perhaps winning a Kentucky Oaks along the way – before heading east with his stable to Delaware Park.

This late spring and summer brings change for him. A Hopkinsville, Ky. native, Jones has chosen to stay put in Kentucky, though he has not ruled out shipping to Delaware for races.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Graded stakes winner Honorable Duty, who was pulled up in the Grade 1 Clark in November after a last-place finish in the Fayette in October, returned to form by winning a $61,000 allowance on Sunday at Churchill.

Special Blessing has made noise in Louisiana since she topped a 2-year-old in training sale for $110,000 last year in Opelousas, La. She picked up her first stakes at nearby Evangeline Downs earlier this month and on Saturday night will attempt to win another in the track’s Louisiana Legends Soiree.

Monmouth Park will have the first of its five bundled stakes days Saturday. The three-day holiday weekend will also host the popular food truck festival.

The four Saturday stakes will be part of a 50-cent pick five that will offer a unique guarantee: If there is a single winning ticket, that person is guaranteed to receive $150,000 regardless of pool size. The guarantee will also be in place on the other big days of the meet: Father’s Day, June 17; June 30; Haskell Day, July 29; and Sept. 1.

Trainer Steve Asmussen for the second year in a row took down first prize in the $100,000 Preakness weekend trainers’ competition.

Horses earned points for where they finished in stakes on Black-Eyed Susan Day and Preakness Day. Asmussen had a big weekend and took down the $50,000 top prize.

On Saturday, Asmussen won the Grade 3 Maryland Sprint with Switzerland, the $200,000 Chick Lang with Mitole, and the $100,000 James W. Murphy with Tap Daddy. He sent out Tenfold to finish a close third in the Preakness, and also earned points with five other horses.

There will be a Rainbow 6 carryover of $216,237 on Thursday at Pimlico after there were many, many winners of the wager Preakness Day.

There was a $29,406 carryover into Saturday after there were multiple winning tickets on Friday’s Black-Eyed Susan card.

The Preakness card was unusually chalky, and the 20-cent Rainbow 6 paid $41.04. The winning Rainbow 6 horses returned $2.80, $5.40, $7.80, $4, $3.20, and $2.80.

Something Awesome, who finished last as the 5-2 favorite, bled through Lasix during the $300,000 Pimlico Special on Friday, according to trainer Jose Corrales.

Since being transferred to Corrales last fall, Something Awesome had won five of six starts, including the Grade 2 Charles Town Classic and the Grade 3 General George at Laurel Park. The 7-year-old had previously been racing on a synthetic surface at Woodbine.

“On a scale of one to five, he bled a three,” Corrales said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – With more than four inches of rain falling locally from 5-9 a.m. on Sunday, it was a miracle of sorts the 11-race Gulfstream Park program went on as scheduled that afternoon over a racetrack officially designated as “good” throughout the card.

ARCADIA, Calif. –Jockey Mike Smith, who rides Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner Justify, will serve two days of suspension this week for careless riding May 6 at Santa Anita.

Smith was to serve a four-day suspension last Thursday-Sunday, but he sat out only Thursday and Sunday and rode in graded stakes at Pimlico on Friday and Saturday. Smith won the Preakness on Saturday aboard Justify.

Under California racing rules, jockeys are allowed to ride graded stakes while under suspension for routine infractions as long as they serve the days at a later date.