HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – After contemplating retiring “for about 10 minutes” not long ago, trainer Angel Penna Jr. is back in business and has a couple of talented fillies, Hola Charlotte and Eva London, eyeing next Saturday’s $100,000 Musical Romance Stakes.

Hola Charlotte is coming off the best effort of her career, a 4 1/2-length optional-claiming tally here on April 19. Eva London has won her last two starts, both at a mile, by a combined 10 3/4 lengths. The last race came after she was transferred from trainer Amy Tarrant to Penna this spring.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The contingent of American horses traveling to England to compete in the prestigious Royal Ascot meeting next month continues to grow. In addition to the six runners, led by European champion Lady Aurelia, whom trainer Wesley Ward put through workouts at Keeneland on Tuesday, the high-class Kentucky-based runner La Coronel is being pointed to Royal Ascot.

“Right now, it’s a go,” trainer Mark Casse said this week about sending her to the June 23 Coronation at Royal Ascot.

Evangeline Downs in Opelousas, La., was to shift to a 5:25 p.m. Central first post starting Saturday night. It will remain in place through the close of the meet Sept. 2. The new post is 15 minutes earlier; the change is to avoid overlapping with other tracks, said Chris Warren, director of racing for Evangeline.

Conquest Mo Money, who was to run Saturday in the Preakness Stakes, is not the only talented runner from the recent Sunland Park meet who is now based at Prairie Meadows.

American Dubai, who won four straight races at Sunland, also is stabled in Iowa. His wins in New Mexico included an optional $25,000 claiming race in which he set a track record for a mile and the $150,000 Sunland Park Handicap. He last raced at Lone Star Park, finishing fifth in the Grade 3, $200,000 Steve Sexton Mile on May 7. Following that start, he was shipped to Prairie Meadows.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 2017 stakes winners Denman’s Call, Irap, and Ann Arbor Eddie were among 34 workers for trainer Doug O’Neill on the main track at Santa Anita on Friday.

Irap, who finished 18th in the Kentucky Derby, worked five furlongs in 59.80 seconds and is a candidate for the Belmont Stakes on June 10. The workout was Irap’s first since the Kentucky Derby. Owned by Paul and Zillah Reddam, Irap won the Grade 2 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 15.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Unique Bella, a three-time stakes winner who has been rested since late March because of a minor shin injury, is nearing a return to light exercise.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said on Thursday that Unique Bella will soon begin tack-walking. The filly has been based at Hollendorfer’s Santa Anita stable since she was taken out of training after plans to send her to a training center for a rest were scrapped.

“She was doing so good here, we decided to keep her here,” he said.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The six-time stakes winner Midnight Storm will be ridden for the first time by Flavien Prat in the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on May 27, trainer Phil D’Amato said on Friday.

The $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita is run at 1 1/4 miles and is the richest race of the track’s spring-summer meeting.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Wando Stakes winner King and His Court and runner-up Tiz a Slam lead the first Daily Racing Form Queen’s Plate Watch list of 2017.

The $1 million Queen’s Plate will be run for the 158th time on July 2, just six weeks away, and 45 Canadian-bred 3-year-olds remain eligible for the first jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown.

BALTIMORE – D. Wayne Lukas, a six-time winner of the Preakness Stakes, rolled into Old Hilltop from Kentucky on Wednesday with a pair of horses in tow.

Lukas is tied with Bob Baffert as the second-winningest trainer in Preakness history. Only 19th-century horseman Robert Wyndham Walden, who won the race seven times between 1875 and 1888, has more Preakness wins.

Lukas, 81, won the Preakness in 2013 with Oxbow, in 1999 with Charismatic, in 1995 with Timber Country, in 1994 with Tabasco Cat, in 1985 with Tank’s Propsect, and in 1980 with Codex.

BALTIMORE – The Beyer Speed Figure for Multiplier’s victory in the Illinois Derby has been adjusted from an 88 to a 94. Multiplier is a 30-1 longshot on the morning line for Saturday’s Preakness at Pimlico.

The figure for Illinois Derby runner-up Hedge Fund, beaten a head, was also adjusted similarly. Hedge Fund is running in the $100,000 Sir Barton Stakes on the Preakness undercard.