LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Kentucky Oaks winner Untapable will not race in the Acorn Stakes on the huge Belmont Stakes undercard June 7 and will wait instead for the next Grade 1 race at Belmont Park in the 3-year-old filly division, the Mother Goose Stakes on June 28, trainer Steve Asmussen confirmed Friday.

The main track at Gulfstream Park has favored speed on a pretty regular basis since the meet began Dec. 1, but never more so than over the past several weeks. That means players should lean toward using horses who figure to be on or near the front in the two dirt races in Monday’s Rainbow Six sequence.

OPELOUSAS, La. – The best in the Bayou State are set to assemble Saturday at Evangeline Downs for Louisiana Legends Night. Eight stakes, all restricted to Louisiana-breds, will be worth a combined $750,000. First post is 5:40 p.m. Central.

Top billing on the Legends program has to go to Sunbean, who will be the prohibitive favorite in the $100,000 Legends Classic. So formidable is Sunbean that only four rivals could be coaxed into facing him.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Preakness runner-up Ride On Curlin will have his third rider in as many Triple Crown races when John Velazquez pilots him in the Belmont Stakes.

Velazquez, a two-time winner of the Belmont, replaces Joel Rosario, who is committed to ride Peter Pan winner Tonalist in the Belmont. Rosario replaced Calvin Borel, who rode Ride On Curlin to a seventh-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.

Billy Gowan, the trainer of Ride On Curlin, said he’s sorry to lose Rosario, but happy to have Velazquez.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Danza, the Arkansas Derby winner and third-place finisher in the Kentucky Derby, will not run in the June 7 Belmont Stakes, trainer Todd Pletcher said Tuesday.

Pletcher said he was not happy with the way Danza came out of his half-mile breeze in 49.49 seconds Sunday at Belmont Park.

“Not happy the way he’s doing, think he needs a little more time, lost a little bit of weight,” Pletcher said. “We’ll give him a little bit of a break.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Not since Kentucky Derby Day had such prominent stakes horses sped down the Churchill Downs stretch, though on Tuesday, they did so training in the morning, not racing in the afternoon.

Among the horses to breeze Tuesday were Will Take Charge, the champion 3-year-old male of 2013 who ran sixth as the favorite in the Alysheba Stakes on Oaks Day; Central Banker, the winner of the Grade 2 Churchill Downs Stakes on Derby Day; and Midnight Lucky, the Grade 1 Humana Distaff winner that same afternoon.

The 13-year-old mare Run Kaitlyn Run had two daughters win on last Thursday’s Golden Gate Fields card. Runninismygame won her debut in a 4 1/2-furlong maiden race for 2-year-old fillies, and Sheza Trip rallied to win a one-mile claiming race on turf.

Both fillies are owned and bred by Patricia Ford, trained by Bill Delia, and were ridden by Ricardo Gonzalez.

“You’ve never seen a happier group in the winner’s circle for a $4,000 claiming race,” said trainer Cinda Mahorney after Lucky Gotum’s half-length victory in the seventh race last Saturday.

The victory was Mahorney’s first as a trainer and came with the 16th runner she had saddled. It came with a 6-year-old gelding slated for retirement who had been sent to Mahorney at her Winning Start Race Farm to get over various issues. Owned by his breeder, Brent Kirk, along with Kevin Kirk and Greg McWilliams, Lucky Gotum paid $43.80 to win.

The new Golden Gate Fields racing secretary, Patrick Mackey, in his second week on the job, signed up 16 nominees to Monday’s Grade 3, $100,000 All American, and a week before the race, a minimum of seven entrants seemed likely, according to stakes coordinator Chris Merz.

The Memorial Day card tops a five-day week of racing at Golden Gate, beginning Thursday.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Thirty-six years in the waiting, 12 furlongs to go.

California Chrome, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, arrived at the final stop on his Triple Crown journey Tuesday, when a horse van carrying him and Preakness runner-up Ride On Curlin passed through the gates of Belmont Park shortly before 10:45 a.m.

The van arrived following an approximately 4 1/2-hour trip from Pimlico in Baltimore. The van got stuck in a little rush-hour traffic near the George Washington Bridge before picking up a police escort from the Throgs Neck Bridge.