INGLEWOOD, Calif. – After taking the scenic route to win the first stakes of his career in Thursday’s $72,350 Harry Henson Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park, American Act will have plenty of chances to see more ground later this summer.

Trainer Jack Carava said the long-term goal for American Act is starts in two-turn stakes, on turf or on main tracks.

On Friday, Carava was content to see American Act emerge from an eventful running of the Henson without mishap.

[bc_video_id:250209:]LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Union Rags made his grand entrance on the Churchill Downs stage Friday morning, eliciting a few oohs and aahs from the crowd as he performed a routine gallop during the special Derby-Oaks training session immediately after the renovation break.

Union Rags’s first appearance in Louisville since his runner-up finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile highlighted the local Kentucky Derby activity report while on the West Coast, I’ll Have Another made big news with a somewhat unorthodox six-furlong work at Hollywood Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Three top females trained by John Shirreffs will play leading roles this summer in California turf stakes.

Nereid, Star Billing, and Harmonious – remember them? – have not raced in more than five months. But the end of winter marks the return of Shirreffs’s Grade 1-winning trio, and Nereid is first off the bench Sunday at Betfair Hollywood Park.

“She was the first one back in training, so she’s the first one ready,” Shirreffs said.

As the 121-pound topweight, the Grade 3 Wilshire Handicap at a mile on grass is Nereid’s for the taking.

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Ashland Stakes runner-up Hard Not to Like had her final tune-up for the Kentucky Oaks at Woodbine on Friday morning, going five furlongs in 1:01.60 on the dirt training track.

Luis Contreras was aboard for the drill but Robby Albarado has the call for the Kentucky Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile race which offers Grade 1 status and a purse of $1 million.

Hard Not to Like, trained by Gail Cox, is scheduled to ship out for Churchill Downs on Tuesday morning.

Trinniberg, the likely pacesetter in this year’s Kentucky Derby, arrived at Churchill Downs shortly after 9 p.m. on Thursday following a 16 1/2 hour van ride from Miami.

Owner Shivnanda Parbhoo, who drove the van, said the trip was uneventful and that Trinniberg walked “very strong and looked very healthy” on Friday morning. He is scheduled to visit the track for the first time on Saturday.

Groupie Doll, winner of the Grade 1 Vinery Madison at Keeneland when equipped with blinkers for the first time in her last start, worked a half-mile Friday morning at Churchill Downs in 47 seconds in tuning up for her next race, the Grade 1 Humana Distaff on the Kentucky Derby undercard. Former jockey Larry Melancon was aboard for the breeze.

“I really liked the way she went,” said trainer Buff Bradley. “Larry said he never moved on her, that she did everything right. That’s about all she’ll need off that last race.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Bob Tiller has gotten off to a fast start at the Woodbine meet. Heading into this week, he led the standings with six wins from 24 starters, good for a 25 percent win average.

Tiller will try to notch his first stakes at the meet on Sunday, when he saddles Casa Loma in the $150,000 Fury, a seven-furlong sprint for Ontario-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Owners Steve Markwell and Sam Froedge recently won three races at Indiana Downs with homebreds who are out of the same mare, There Runs Hattie.

Markwell and Froedge purchased There Runs Hattie at the 2000 Keeneland September yearling sale for $25,000 and she went on to be graded stakes placed while winning nearly $240,000. When her racing career was over, the partners decided to breed her.

“She is really well bred, being by Rahy out of a Green Dancer mare, so we decided rather than sell her, we would breed her ourselves,” Markwell said.

New York Showcase Day isn’t until October, but Sunday’s $90,000 Carr Heaven overnight stakes offers a preview of the Empire Classic as the six veterans in the 1 1/16-mile race have won 43 of 150 starts and more than $2.2 million.

The leading earner is Fiddlers Afleet, a California shipper claimed out of a win for $40,000 by John Sadler earlier this month.