ARCADIA, Calif. – Big Macher, the former maiden claimer who won the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar last summer, will have his next start in the $827,715 Diamond Jubilee Stakes for turf sprinters at Royal Ascot in England on June 20.

Earlier this week, Big Macher was sent from California trainer Richard Baltas to Wesley Ward in Kentucky. Ward is preparing a team of runners for the five-day Royal Ascot meeting from June 16-20, leading owners Tom Mansor and Brendan Bakir to temporarily switch trainers.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Keen Ice, seventh in the Kentucky Derby, worked five furlongs in 1:01.80 on Friday at Churchill Downs in preparation for the Belmont Stakes on June 6.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Hall of Fame jockey Randy Romero, troubled by a number of physical ailments during and after his riding career, is facing more health problems. On Wednesday, during medical tests required to be placed on a waiting list for a liver and kidney transplant, doctors found a tumor in his stomach.

“It’s as big as a marble, and I’m going to have surgery soon,” he said Friday. “They are going to try to laser or go in and dig it out. They don’t know if it is cancerous or not. But if it’s cancerous, I’m going to be off the list. I’m going to be in trouble.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Malcolm Pierce will be well represented in both stakes next weekend at Woodbine, with Deceptive Vision and Overheard in the Nassau and Don’t Leave Me in the Grade 3 Selene Stakes next Sunday, May 24.

Don’t Leave Me returned from a six-month layoff to capture the Grade 3 Bourbonette Oaks on March 21 at Turfway Park.

Frosted, the fourth-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, worked a half-mile in 47.80 seconds Friday morning over the Belmont Park main track.

Daily Racing Form clocker Mike Vesce caught Frosted’s first quarter in 24.40 seconds, his final quarter in 23.40 seconds and caught him galloping out five furlongs in 1:01.80.

Trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said that Frosted is under serious consideration for the June 6 Belmont Stakes.

“He worked great, on his own, galloped out well,” McLaughlin said. “We’ll do it again next Friday, weather permitting.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Deceptive Vision, the winner of the Grade 3 Doubledogdare Stakes on dirt at Keeneland in her first start of the year April 17, is on target for a return to turf in the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes at Woodbine next Saturday, trainer Malcolm Pierce said.

Pierce said Deceptive Vision has come out of the Doubledogdare Stakes well and has been training forwardly ahead of the Nassau.

“She’s good,” he said. “She had a very good work on the training track [May 9]. She deserves a chance at this race.”

BALTIMORE – Pimlico is guaranteeing the size of four multi-race pools on Saturday.

The early pick four on races 2-5 will be guaranteed at $300,000. The late pick four on races 10-13, which will include the Preakness, is guaranteed to reach $1.5 million.

The 12-percent-takeout pick five on races 9-13 will have a guaranteed pool of $500,000.

A single winner of the Rainbow 6 on races 8-13 will be guaranteed a payout of at least $100,000.

BALTIMORE – Six trainers are eligible for the $100,000 trainers’ participation bonus that has been tied to the Friday and Saturday stakes and starter races at Pimlico.

According to track officials, they are Bob Baffert, Claudio Gonzalez, D. Wayne Lukas, Shug McGaughey, Graham Motion, and Todd Pletcher.

To be eligible for the bonus, a trainer has to run five horses in designated stakes or starter races at Pimlico this weekend.

BALTIMORE – Last year, Preakness Day at Pimlico set an attendance record of 123,469 under ideal weather conditions. That figure was up 5.3 percent from the 2013 figure of 117,309 and 1.7 percent from the previous record of 121,309, which was set in 2012.

Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of The Stronach Group, which owns the Maryland Jockey Club tracks of Pimlico and Laurel Park, was a bit reluctant when asked Wednesday to predict the attendance for Saturday’s Preakness but said he would be “very happy with a crowd of between 100,000 and 120,000.”

BALTIMORE – Larry Collmus, the star race-caller who grew up in nearby Ellicott City, Md., and John Scheinman, a former racing writer for The Washington Post and a longtime freelancer, were among the honorees Thursday morning at the annual Alibi Breakfast in the Pimlico clubhouse.

Collmus, whose regular duties now include calling races for the New York Racing Association, has become the sport’s preeminent voice as the caller for the Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup events for NBC. He called his first race at age 18 during the final meet ever run at Bowie in 1985.