Silver Max, one of the top turf 3-year-olds in the country, has not been headed in his last four starts and will likely employ a similar running style in Wednesday evening’s $200,000 Oliver Stakes at Indiana Downs. Twelve 3-year-old males were entered for the one-mile turf race, but Howe Great, third in the Grade 2 American Turf at Churchill Downs in his last race, will not start.

Although Union Rags and I’ll Have Another were the stars of this year’s Triple Crown, both had unfulfilling experiences that will always have their connections, and many others, wondering what might have been.

For Union Rags, winner of the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, his traffic-filled trip in the Kentucky Derby precluded any bid for a Triple Crown sweep, something his trainer, Michael Matz, thought he was fully capable of achieving.

Business figures for Saturday’s Belmont Stakes posted across-the-board gains as the race reaped the rewards of nearly three weeks of speculation over whether I’ll Have Another could win the Triple Crown.

A couple of lightly race raced 4-year-old fillies, Jazz Time Girl and La Pinot, look like the main players in a first-level allowance race for fillies and mares at Northlands Park Wednesday. The six-furlong feature drew a field of seven and goes as race 7 on an eight-race card that begins at 6 p.m. Pacific.

Jazz Time Girl could have a fitness edge over La Pinot, who is coming off a lengthy layoff.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Though the track was blessed with good weather for Belmont Stakes week, the rain that has been fairly constant this spring at Belmont Park was due to return.

If the weather prognosticators are correct, some or all of Wednesday’s five scheduled turf races at Belmont could be in jeopardy of being moved to the main track, including a $77,000 optional claimer that goes as the third. Through the first 32 days of the 54-day meet, 45 scheduled turf races have been moved to the dirt.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Expectations were high in Sunday’s Victoria Park Stakes for Prospective, who was coming off a troubled 16th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.

After throwing a scare into his connections when stumbling at the start of the 1 1/8-mile Victoria Park, Prospective delivered as the 2-5 favorite with a 1 3/4-length score under regular rider Luis Contreras.

The West Virginia Racing Commission has scheduled a June 29 hearing to hear trainer Mark Wedig’s appeal of his ejection from Mountaineer Park.

Jeff Blaydes, a partner with the Charleston, W.Va., law firm Carbone and Blaydes, will preside over the public hearing, said West Virginia deputy attorney general Kelli Talbot, who represents the state’s racing commission. The hearing will take place at the Holiday Inn Express in Newell, W.Va.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The win machine Game Ball will compete with a selling price for the first time since last summer on Wednesday night at Woodbine, in a $50,000 claimer scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the grass.

Game Ball, a John Oxley homebred, romped over $7,500 opposition at Fort Erie last August. The closer went on to capture each of his next three starts there, all in marathon starter allowances on the dirt.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ahmed Zayat would like to end his stable’s streak of runner-up finishes by winning the Stephen Foster Handicap on Saturday night at Churchill Downs. Problem is, Zayat considers the record that Nehro has compiled – seconds in four major stakes, including the 2011 Kentucky Derby and the recent Pimlico Special – and he just has to laugh.

“I’m picking the wrong horse to break this streak, aren’t I?” he said in hearty self-deprecation. “He’s notorious for being second, I think.”

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - All Star Heart was three lengths behind leader Broken Dreams with a furlong remaining in Sunday’s $72,800 Redondo Beach Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Jockey Brice Blanc had the opposition right where he wanted them.

With a wide rally through the stretch, All Star Heart stormed to the front in the final sixteenth. The Redondo Beach Stakes was All Star Heart’s first start in seven months. She won by a half-length over 8-1 Hard to Resist.

“She’s always had a strong kick,” Blanc said of All Star Heart.