ARCADIA, Calif. - It Tiz Well, who finished third in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks on April 8, will remain in California this spring and will not start in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs on May 5, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said.

“We’ll wait for a race here,” he said.

Owned by Tom and Debby Stull, It Tiz Well has won 3 of 6 starts and earned $274,840. It Tiz Well won the Grade 3 Honeybee Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 11 and was beaten 14 lengths by Paradise Woods in the Santa Anita Oaks at 1 1/16 miles.

Trevor McCarthy won the most races at Laurel Park last week but Feargal Lynch won the right races.

McCarthy leads the jockey standings with 59 wins – 13 more than runner-up Horacio Karamanos. He went 6 for 23 last week.

Lynch won with five of his 16 mounts, but won three of the four stakes on Saturday. He won the $123,000 Federico Tesio aboard Twisted Tom for trainer Chad Brown, the $120,000 Weber City Miss on Lights of Medina for Todd Pletcher, and the $75,000 Henry Clark on Ascend for Graham Motion, who doubled up himself by winning the $75,000 Dahlia with Danilovna.

After a month’s journey to Dubai in search of riches, Imperial Hint is back in his Parx stall, and if not wealthier, at least he has his health.

Imperial Hint became sick after shipping to Dubai and missed his intended race, the $2 million Golden Shaheen. The illness developed into pneumonia, and when the other North American horses headed home, Imperial Hint had to stay behind and recuperate. His trainer, Luis Carvajal Jr., remained in Dubai with him.

Churchill Downs

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For what figured to be a relatively quiet and uneventful morning, with nary a single Kentucky Derby workout on the schedule, Wednesday’s Oaks-Derby training session produced more than its share of newsworthy developments.

ARCADIA, Calif. – With the cancellation of racing at Santa Anita on Thursday because of insufficient entries, track and racing officials plan to meet in an effort to avoid a similar circumstance through the end of the spring-summer meeting on July 4.

The track announced last Sunday that there would be no racing Thursday because there were not sufficient runners for eight-race programs on Thursday and Friday. Instead, there will be nine races on Friday only.

Track senior vice president Joe Morris said Wednesday that the field size situation is a concern.

Two horses that could join the lineup for the Grade 1, $500,000 Woodford Reserve Turf Classic in the race preceding the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs turned in bullet workouts Tuesday morning, with Ballagh Rocks breezing five furlongs in 1:00.60 around the cones on the Churchill turf and Kasaqui working the same distance in 59.80 seconds on dirt at Keeneland.

Syndergaard will be an overwhelming favorite in the $100,000 William Walker Stakes when Churchill Downs opens its 39-day spring meet Saturday with an 11-race Downs After Dark card that starts at 6 p.m. Eastern.

Syndergaard, with John Velazquez riding for trainer Todd Pletcher, was assigned post 1 in a field of seven 3-year-olds in the six-furlong William Walker, which goes as the ninth race (post, 10:11 p.m.).

After Saturday, Churchill will be dark Sunday and Monday before the five-day Derby week runs Tuesday through Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Trainer Wayne Catalano tends to know only what he needs to know. Foremost among that knowledge is that Farrell is thriving as the 143rd Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs nears. All else is superfluous.

“How many fillies have I run in the Oaks before?” Catalano asked, repeating a question asked of him. “I don’t know, two or three? I usually just remember the ones we win, like our three Breeders’ Cups and some of our other Grade 1s.”

Dark Nile, the winner of last year’s Delaware Oaks, will make her first start since August in the $100,000 Foxy J. G. Stakes at Parx Racing on Saturday.

The Foxy J. G. and the $100,000 Lyman Stakes, for 3-year-olds and up, are the first stakes of the year at Parx. The races, for Pennsylvania-breds at seven furlongs, came up especially strong this year.

Page McKenney will make his first start in 10 weeks in the Lyman. He bruised a heel while training in March.

Golden Gate Fields hosts its biggest weekend of the year Saturday and Sunday when it runs a trio of turf stakes – the Grade 3, $100,000 San Francisco Mile on Saturday and a pair of $100,000 races Sunday, the Campanile for 3-year-old fillies and the Silky Sullivan for 3-year-olds.