VANCOUVER, British Columbia – It is hard to go past Tempest in a first-level allowance race for 3-year-olds that will serve as Sunday’s feature at Hastings. After all, Tempest is coming off a second-place finish in the $50,000 Jim Coleman Province on May 3 and he will appreciate the easier company with the drop into a conditional race. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint attracted six horses and goes as race 6 at 4:20 p.m. Pacific.

Trainer Dino Condilenios nominated Tempest to next Saturday’s $50,000 River Rock Casino, but opted for the easier spot.

ELMONT, N.Y. – There will be a pick six carryover of $141,367 at Belmont Park on Friday after the wager went unhit for a second straight card Thursday.

Despite longshot winners Finders Key ($28.60), Sam Sparkle ($23.20), and Ode to Sami ($58) as part of the sequence, there were live tickets to three of the eight runners entering the nightcap.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The connections of California Chrome who are based in New York have emanated more and more confidence in their colt’s Triple Crown quest with each passing morning that they watch their Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner train.

That confidence has traveled cross-country to California, where California Chrome’s 77-year-old trainer, Art Sherman, has been based for the last 10 days. While overseeing his string at Los Alamitos, Sherman has kept close tabs on what’s been going on at Belmont Park.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The $50,000 Ross McLeod Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on May 3 was the most exciting race at the meet, with Ole’s Miss edging Arabella’s Muse at the finish following a thrilling stretch duel. After battling through extreme fractions, Arabella’s Muse gamely fought back when Ole’s Miss collared her mid-stretch but came up a neck short. They are expected to renew acquaintances June 7 in the $50,000 Emerald Downs Handicap at Hastings.

Interestingly, both horses will be saddled by different trainers in the Emerald Downs.

Big Bazinga, one of the leading 3-year-olds on the grounds at Woodbine, could return from a break here June 22 in the $125,000 Victoria Park Stakes, according to trainer Katerina Vassilieva.

Big Bazinga was on the Kentucky Derby trail over the winter in Florida before finishing fifth in the Grade 3 Spiral Stakes at Turfway and fourth in the Grade 1 Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. After it became evident that he wouldn’t make it into the body of the Derby field, he was entered in and scratched from the Grade 2 American Turf on the same Churchill card.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ian Black nominated the versatile 4-year-old Really Sharp to the Connaught Cup but has opted to run him Sunday at Woodbine in the Grade 2 Eclipse Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile Polytrack route.

Really Sharp competed at Gulfstream before notching his second start at this meet, going seven furlongs May 11 in the Grade 3 Vigil Stakes. The best of his two 1 1/16-mile races took place in the fall of 2012 at Keeneland, where he was demoted to sixth via disqualification after getting beaten a nose in the Grade 3 Bourbon on grass.

ELMONT, N.Y. – You know it’s a slow day on the Belmont Stakes workout watch when the biggest news of the morning was either Social Inclusion’s bandage unraveling as he neared the completion of another routine 1 3/8-mile gallop or the absence of Wicked Strong, who merely walked the shed row Thursday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – No horse has won the Grade 2 Connaught Cup three times, but Something Extra will try to capture the seven-furlong turf sprint for the third straight year Saturday at Woodbine. The $200,000 stakes lured eight others, including Excaper and River Seven.

Goldencents, winner of the 2013 Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile last November, worked six furlongs in 1:11.60 at Santa Anita on Wednesday.

Trained by Doug O’Neill, Goldencents will run in the $1.25 million Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park on June 7, part of the Belmont Stakes undercard.

Goldencents started Wednesday’s workout 5 1/2 furlongs from the finish and ran a sixteenth of a mile past the wire. Santa Anita clockers timed Goldencents in 23.20 seconds for the final quarter-mile.

Storm Fighter will be the colt to catch in Saturday’s $200,000 Californian Stakes, a race that could lead to an appearance in the $500,000 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on June 28.

Trained by Bruce Headley for Golden Eagle Farm, the 4-year-old Storm Fighter is in outstanding form, having won his last two starts over a mile – an optional claimer on April 5 and the Tiznow Stakes for California-breds on April 26.