Trainer Carl Allsop won with his first starter on Sunday at Laurel Park, when Antoaneta won a first-level allowance race on turf by a head. She paid $17.20.

Allsop works for Reid Nagle, who owns Big Lick Farm near Ocala, Fla., and keeps horses at the Braeburn Training Center in Virginia. Allsop is based at Braeburn.

It’s no secret Red Ruby has great potential. In three starts this year, she has scored open-length stakes victories in the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan at Pimlico and the Martha Washington at Oaklawn Park. Once she swooped to the lead in upper stretch of the Black-Eyed Susan, the race, for all practical purposes, was over.

But it hasn’t been all sunshine and rainbows for Red Ruby, and trainer Kellyn Gorder has had to be patient and adjust her schedule on the fly.

Fresh from a big closing weekend of the Churchill meet, Steve Asmussen will be casting a larger presence than ever before this summer at Ellis. Although his top horses will be active later this month at Saratoga, where he will actually be spending most of his time, the Hall of Fame trainer not only has about 80 horses in the care of assistant Mitch Dennison at Ellis, but also has reserves to call on at Churchill.

It’s been nearly three years since Saham posted his last victory, but the 6-year-old horse looks like he has found a spot to end the drought as the favorite in the Friday feature at Ellis Park in western Kentucky.

Saham was an up-and-coming 3-year-old when he won the Grade 3 Jefferson Cup on Sept. 26, 2015, on the Churchill turf. But while he has been remarkably consistent, never finishing worse than fourth in his last 11 starts, he has somehow remained winless since.

A second bizarre incident in an eight-month period involving a maiden named Good Offense has led to the voluntary retirement of the 3-year-old gelding.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Chief Cicatriz, whose 110 Beyer Speed Figure from the June 2 Aristides at Churchill Downs is the highest so far this year in North America at a sprint distance, could be headed to Del Mar later this month, according to trainer Shawn Davis.

Possible races for him there include the July 28 Bing Crosby, a Win and You’re In event toward the BC Sprint, and the Aug. 25 Pat O’Brien, a Win and You’re In event toward the BC Dirt Mile.

Gulfstream Park reported that it set records for average and total handle at its spring meeting, which began April 4 and concluded Saturday with the Summit of Speed card.

Gulfstream reported total handle for the spring meet was $334 million, up $22 million over 2017 despite six fewer days of racing. Total handle during the spring meet has climbed approximately $88 million since 2015, the track said.

Average daily handle topped $6.3 million, up about $1 million from 2017 and $2.1 million since 2015.

Caledonia Road, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2017, will not race again this year and will be offered at public auction later in 2018, her connections announced Monday night.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Aidan O’Brien could send as many as six horses to Belmont Park for Saturday’s Stars and Stripes program, with the most intriguing being Mendelssohn for the Grade 3, $300,000 Dwyer Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile.

Mendelssohn won the United Arab Emirates Derby by 18 1/2 lengths in Dubai but then finished last, beaten 73 1/4 lengths by Justify, in the Kentucky Derby. O’Brien was quoted in the European press as saying that Mendelssohn was not ready for the Kentucky Derby experience, a 20-horse field with swift early fractions.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Limousine Liberal, third in the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap, and Whitmore, second in the Grade 2 True North, head the field expected for Saturday’s Grade 2, $350,000 Belmont Sprint Championship.

Limousine Liberal is a multiple stakes winner at the Belmont Sprint distance of seven furlongs. He finished 5 1/4 lengths behind Bee Jersey and Mind Your Biscuits in the Met Mile.