An attempt at a new distance has resulted in Hiding in Honduras starting in an allowance race at Santa Anita on Sunday and not Saturday’s Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes.

Hiding in Honduras scored a 9-1 upset in his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2 Mathis Mile for 3-year-olds on turf at Santa Anita on Dec. 28, rallying on the inside to win by a neck.

Trainer Jonathan Thomas and owner Robert LaPenta nominated Hiding in Honduras for the Thunder Road Stakes at a mile, but have opted for Sunday’s race at 1 1/8 miles on turf.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The odds on horses in Thursday’s first race at Aqueduct were skewed when a large win wager came in on Patience N  Grace, a horse listed at 5-1 on the morning-line who went off at odds of 3-10 and finished fourth. 

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – With more arctic-like temperatures in the forecast, the Saturday and Sunday cards scheduled at Aqueduct have been canceled, the New York Racing Association announced Thursday.

The temperatures for both days will be in the teens, with single-digit wind chill values. On Saturday, winds were forecast between 20 and 30 miles per hour, with gusts up to 40 miles per hour.

The Maryland Jockey Club announced that the Saturday card at Laurel Park will be canceled because of “frigid temperatures,” expected to be made worse by severe wind chill. It will be the third straight Saturday card canceled or postponed at the track.

Laurel originally planned to conduct racing from Wednesday to Sunday this week, adding two race dates in order to run postponed cards from last weekend. On Wednesday, the track offered its first full card since Jan. 23, and all other race dates besides Saturday this week are currently scheduled to continue.

Del Mar has altered the conditions of maiden races on dirt for 2-year-olds for its summer meeting to allow horses from all stables to run for maximum prize money, according to a statement issued on Wednesday.

This summer, maiden races for 2-year-olds on dirt will be worth $100,000. Last year, the track offered maiden races on dirt for 2-year-olds with a purse of $80,000.

Kazushi Kimura can easily relate to the lengthy recovery fellow jockey Umberto Rispoli faces from ankle and leg injuries sustained at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 24. A year ago at this time, Kimura was in the midst of an absence of more than two months caused by a leg injury suffered in the starting gate at Santa Anita.

Through Sunday, the most recent day of racing at Santa Anita, Kimura was tied for the lead in the jockey standings with Juan Hernandez with 19 wins. Last Friday, the pair overtook Rispoli, who led the standings for much of January.

Mother Nature continued her winning streak at Turfway Park, as the track canceled its Wednesday card, the seventh consecutive live racing day lost to ongoing winter conditions.

Churchill Downs this year will run on the Sunday prior to the Kentucky Derby for the first time since 2010. The track will also run its opening-day card during the afternoon rather than at night, the track said on Wednesday.

The addition of the Sunday, April 26, card means that Churchill will run live every day except Monday from opening day on April 25 until the Derby card on Saturday, May 2.