Texas Chrome and his 2-year-old stablemate Country Candy have been standout winners at this Lone Star Park meet and are scheduled to see stakes action next month at Belmont Park, according to trainer J.R. Caldwell.

Texas Chrome was a 10 1/2-length winner of a division of the $75,000 Texas Stallion Stakes last Sunday, earning a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 82 in his two-turn debut. Caldwell said Texas Chrome is being considered for one of two races on the Belmont Stakes undercard June 11.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Maria Borell, who won the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Sprint with Runhappy, and Drawing Away Stable confirmed Wednesday that the two have parted ways. Drawing Away had added Borell to its roster of trainers five months ago.

“Maria is no longer training for us,” said Sandy Levine, one of the managing partners of Drawing Away. “It just wasn’t working out, so we decided to move the horses – there were six in total – to some of our other trainers currently at Gulfstream Park.”

BALTIMORE – As trainer Doug O’Neill puts Nyquist and Land Over Sea through their paces leading up to this weekend’s Preakness and Black-Eyed Susan stakes, he is accompanied on his morning rounds by Jim Jimenez.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Big Book finished behind the champions Stellar Wind and Beholder in graded stakes last summer and fall before being turned out for the winter.

On Friday at Santa Anita, Big Book will have her first start since September in an optional claimer at 1 1/16 miles designed to prepare the 4-year-old filly for graded stakes this summer.

“I’m hoping we’ll go in the graded stakes company,” trainer Tim Yakteen said. “She’s come back where she left off.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Danzing Candy, who set the pace in the Kentucky Derby before fading to finish 15th, was recently transferred from trainer Clifford Sise to Bob Baffert.

Sise and Baffert confirmed the move on Wednesday.

Danzing Candy, owned by Ted Aroney and Jim and Dianne Bashor, made his first six starts with Sise, winning three races and earning $358,650. Danzing Candy won the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita in March and was fourth in the Santa Anita Derby on April 9.

BALTIMORE – Jevian Toledo and J.D. Acosta have some things in common. They are from Puerto Rico and attended the Escuela Vocacional Hipica horse racing school there, came to the United States as apprentice riders with little more than a dream of success, and on Saturday will have their first mounts in a Triple Crown race.

Toledo, 21, will ride Awesome Speed in the Preakness for trainer Alan Goldberg. Acosta, 34, will be aboard Abiding Star for Ned Allard. That the horses are longshots makes little difference to Toledo or Acosta, who both said they will be riding to win.

Neil Howard’s visits to Pimlico are fairly rare, as he’s made just 17 starts here since 1979. But when he does come, it’s with a good horse.

Of Howard’s four victories at Pimlico in that span, three have come in prominent stakes – the 1990 Preakness with Summer Squall, the 2003 Pimlico Special with Mineshaft, and the 2014 Sir Barton Stakes with Class Leader.

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Fellowship arrived in trainer Mark Casse’s Kentucky barn three weeks before entry day for the Kentucky Derby – and, somewhat remarkably, his name was not in the entry box for the first of the spring classics when the deadline rolled around. The preference list to determine the 20-horse field refused to budge with late defections, and the colt remained stuck in 21st, with the same number of points as the final horse into the field but $61,736 behind in the non-restricted stakes earnings tiebreaker.

On Saturday, Fellowship will get his chance in the Preakness.

Last year at this time, officials of Pimlico Race Course were openly discussing the possibility of moving the Preakness Stakes from its traditional Saturday date two weeks after the Kentucky Derby to the next day, a Sunday, generating intense debate over what the move would mean to the Triple Crown.

Those discussions are no longer taking place, said Tim Ritvo, the chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, the parent company of Pimlico and its sister track in Maryland, Laurel Park.

BALTIMORE – Pimlico will offer guaranteed pools on two pick fives, three pick fours, and the Rainbow 6 for both Black-Eyed Susan Day on Friday and the Preakness card Saturday.

The 50-cent pick fives are especially attractive because the takeout is only 12 percent, less than half that of the pick fours. The Rainbow 6 has a 20 percent takeout.