Racing in Northern California will be based at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton beginning this fall as a replacement for Golden Gate Fields, if a proposed race meeting is approved by the California Horse Racing Board.

Justin Oldfield, a Northern California-based owner and breeder, said Thursday that an organization of owners, trainers, and breeders located in that part of the state, working with the California Authority of Racing Fairs, will request racing dates at Pleasanton from the racing board at its monthly meeting March 21.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fl. - Trainer Todd Pletcher was busy on a couple of fronts during training hours Friday.

At Palm Beach Downs, reigning 2-year-old champion Fierceness continued to prepare for his next start, which is expected to be in the $1 million Florida Derby here March 30. He worked five furlongs from the half-mile pole in 1:00.95 before galloping out six panels in 1:13.91 with regular rider John Velazquez aboard and in company with Tuscan Sky, according to Daily Racing Form clocker David Norton.

Hit the Road, winner of the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile in 2021 and three other stakes, has been retired from racing and will enter stud later this year in South Africa, trainer Dan Blacker announced on social media earlier this week.

A 7-year-old by More than Ready, Hit the Road won 6 of 19 starts and earned $608,751 for the partnership of DK Racing, Blacker’s Radley Equine, Taste of Victory Stables, Rick Gold, Tony Maslowski, and Dave Odmark.

Subsanador will have a California-based campaign this spring after the Argentine-bred finished a game second in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap last Sunday in his second start in the United States.

Subsanador set the pace in the Big Cap at 1 1/4 miles and led to the final strides before he was beaten by a head by Newgate.

Trainer John Sadler said on Friday that Subsanador will be pointed for the Grade 2 Californian Stakes at 1 1/8 miles at Santa Anita on April 20.

Golden Gate Fields will begin using its turf course for the first time this year in early April at the earliest, according to racing secretary Steve Martinelli.

The course has not been used since the first weekend of December. The track does not race on the surface through winter months because of wet conditions in Northern California.

In 2022, a year with drier conditions, the course opened in mid-March. Last year, the course was not used for the first time until early April because of a wet winter. The same conditions have occurred this year.

Fresh from a win in Sunday’s Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap, Newgate was back on the track at Santa Anita on Thursday with a potential trip to Dubai later this month a viable option, trainer Bob Baffert said.

“He came out of the race really well,” Baffert said. “He went back to the track and looks sharp.

“Now, he’s ready. He’s a fleshy horse. Racing will be good for him.

The five-time stakes winner Closing Remarks has been retired after two disappointing performances this winter at Santa Anita.

Closing Remarks finished sixth in the Grade 3 Megahertz Stakes on Feb. 3 and the Grade 2 Buena Vista Stakes last Sunday, both one-mile turf races for fillies and mares.

She was sent to owner and breeder John Harris’s farm in Coalinga, Calif., earlier this week, trainer Carla Gaines said.