HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Classic Rock, among the more promising 3-year-olds on the grounds now, boarded a van Monday bound for New York, where he’ll test graded stakes waters for the first time June 10 in the Grade 2, seven-furlong Woody Stephens.

Classic Rock, whose connections, owner Reeves Thoroughbreds and trainer Kathy Ritvo, combined to win the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Classic with Mucho Macho Man, has won his last three starts, all at seven furlongs, including an overnight stakes by four lengths April 21.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. has dropped appeals of two suspensions issued in November and March and will not ride for seven racing days at Santa Anita from Thursday through June 2.

Arroyo was suspended five racing days, through Sunday, for causing interference in a race at Santa Anita on April 30. The upcoming penalties are for suspensions issued at Del Mar last November and Santa Anita on March 18.

Arroyo, 40, has won seven races at the spring-summer meeting and is tied for eighth in the jockey standings despite his recent absence.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The California-bred stakes winners Big Macher and Gold Rush Dancer are likely to return from layoffs and meet for the first time in the $100,000 Thor’s Echo Handicap for statebred sprinters at Santa Anita on June 11.

Big Macher, the former maiden claimer who won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar in 2014, has not raced since finishing seventh in the Cary Grant Stakes at Del Mar in November 2015. A five-time stakes winner, Big Macher was sidelined with a ligament issue, trainer Richard Baltas said earlier this year.

ARCADIA, Calif. – In March, Saudi Chroma was purchased for $360,000, the most expensive filly at the Barretts select sale of 2-year-olds in training at Del Mar.

Saudi Chroma can justify the big-ticket purchase Thursday in a maiden race for fillies at 4 1/2 furlongs. A California-bred by Lucky Pulpit, Saudi Chroma is owned by Amr Zedan and trained by Doug O’Neill.

“She should be tough first time out,” said Dennis O’Neill, Doug’s brother and the bloodstock agent who bought Saudi Chroma. “She’s doing really well. She’s a smart filly. She’s very fast out of the gate.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Richard’s Boy won his second stakes of the year in the $100,000 Jim McKay Turf Sprint at Pimlico last Friday. An attempt at a third stakes win could occur at venues as diverse as Belmont Park, Penn National, or Royal Ascot in the coming weeks.

“We’re keeping all options open,” trainer Peter Miller said Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Drizzy will have his stakes debut in the $100,000 Santa Anita Juvenile on July 2 after a smart win in his first start on Saturday.

Trained by Mike Machowsky for owner and breeder Richard Barton, Drizzy disputed the pace in a maiden race for California-bred 2-year-olds at 4 1/2 furlongs before drawing off to win by 5 1/2 lengths under jockey Joe Talamo.

“It was really impressive,” Machowsky said.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A move to sprints has redefined Ransom the Moon’s career this spring, and launched discussions regarding which races to use as a goal this summer and fall.

Ransom the Moon won his stakes debut in the Grade 2 Kona Gold Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs at Santa Anita on Saturday and is a candidate for the Grade 2 San Carlos Stakes at seven furlongs on July 1.

“I think the seven-eighths distance will suit him very well,” trainer Phil D’Amato said.

After that, owner Mark Martinez and Jeffry Wilke and D’Amato may have a decision to make.

ARCADIA, Calif. - What a View, the 6-year-old gelding, and his trainer, Kenny Black, are big fans of Santa Anita’s turf course.

Saturday, What a View won his sixth race in 10 starts on the Santa Anita turf course in the $98,000 Crystal Water Stakes for California-bred turf milers. The race served as a prep for the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf on June 3.

“I told my owners I’d rather run this horse on turf than work him three times on dirt,” Black said in the winner’s circle.

BALTIMORE – Cloud Computing, winner of Saturday's Preakness Stakes, emerged from the race in good condition, but his status for the Belmont Stakes is undecided, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday.

That mirrors the status of Always Dreaming, the Kentucky Derby winner who was eighth in the Preakness, setting up the very real possibility neither will be in the Belmont, the final leg of the Triple Crown, on June 10 at Belmont Park.

Total handle on the Preakness Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore fell just shy of the record set last year, while overall handle on the 14-race card set a record for the second straight year, according to charts of the races compiled by Equibase.

Betting on the Preakness this year was $60.2 million when counting all wagers that ended in the race, down 1.7 percent from the record of $61.3 million set last year. This year’s Preakness had 10 horses, while last year’s race had 11 horses.