LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Derby week racing schedule has undergone quite a bit of tinkering over the years, but now that the Saturday opener is run at night, Churchill Downs officials seem to have settled on something that will work for years.

As of 2011, the first would-be Sunday of the spring meet is dark, replaced by the first (and only) Tuesday of the meet, allowing for some continuity and momentum-building into Derby weekend. And with three allowances and some decent-sized fields, the 10-race Tuesday card serves toward that end.

As the 7-2 second choice on the track’s morning line, Lucy Stragmore has a realistic chance to provide rookie trainer Jeff Englehart with his first career victory as a trainer in Monday’s featured eighth race at Finger Lakes. But to accomplish that feat, Englehart’s mare will have to find a way to beat the projected favorite, Untapped Secret, trained by the track’s perennial leader – and Jeff’s dad – Chris Englehart.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Stablemates Revolutionary and Verrazano topped a very busy Kentucky Derby/Oaks training session Saturday morning at Churchill Downs as trainers scrambled to beat the heavy rains predicted for later in the day.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Normandy Invasion was one of three potential  Kentucky Derby starters to work prior to the renovation break Saturday at Churchill Downs, a session that also included breezes from all four of trainer Todd Pletcher’s prospective Oaks runners led by Dreaming of Julia.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - After the races Friday, Keeneland announced records for all-sources total handle ($158,640,589) and attendance (278,415) at the 16-day meet that began April 6.

The all-sources gross narrowly eclipses the former record of $158,368,309 set during the15-day spring meet in 2007. The attendance bettered the 269,292 who turned out here last spring during a 15-day meet.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Putting the proverbial icing on the cake, the owner-trainer-jockey team that dominated the 16-day spring meet at Keeneland had a final hurrah Friday when Dark Cove, exiting claiming races, ran off to a 4 1/4-length victory in the closing-day feature, the Grade 2, $150,000 Elkhorn Stakes.

Sunday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Whimsical Stakes drew a field of nine that includes supplementary entrants Acting Naughty, Northern Passion, and Sisterly Love.

Acting Naughty, a 4-year-old filly owned by John Hillier and trained by Don MacRae, will be seeking her first stakes win in the six-furlong Whimsical.

Claimed for $40,000 from her fourth career start as a 2-year-old, Acting Naughty won two $32,000 claiming races plus a first-level allowance and later finished second, beaten a head, in the seven-furlong Jammed Lovely for Ontario-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Worldventurer, who brought $150,000 during a Fasig-Tipton Texas auction April 3, now races for Peter Redekop, according to Bret Calhoun, who continues to train the horse he had for original owner Wesley Melcher.

Melcher offered Worldventurer at auction during a new horses-of-racing-age session conducted at the tail end of Fasig-Tipton’s annual sale of 2-year-olds in training at Lone Star. Bryan Anderson, agent, signed the ticket for Worldventurer, the highest-priced lot at the auction.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Breeder Terry Lovingier swept the first two juvenile races in Southern California on Thursday and Friday with the filly Pay the Debt and the colt Time for a Hug at Hollywood Park.

The win from Time for a Hug in a maiden race for California-breds on Friday was the first winner for Lovingier’s stallion Time to Get Even, who stands at his Lovacres Ranch near Warner Springs, Calif.

Isn’t He Clever, who had been pointing toward the Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star, was forced to miss the race and is now targeting the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap on May 27, trainer Henry Dominguez said.

“He had a minor setback, and we didn’t get to enter in the race [Wednesday],” Dominguez said of the Texas Mile. “We didn’t think he was 100 percent. He’s just now getting there. We had to skip it, but hopefully we’ll be fine for the Lone Star Park Handicap.”

Isn’t He Clever on Friday worked a bullet five furlongs in 1:00.80 at Lone Star.