Summer Thoroughbred racing is coming back to Chicago – just not at Arlington Park.

The Illinois Racing Board on Thursday approved 2023 racing dates for the two remaining racetracks in Illinois, with Hawthorne scheduled to host a 68-day Thoroughbred meet spanning March 4 through Sept. 4.

That’s a major change from the Thoroughbred schedule this year. Hawthorne ran a spring meet from early April through mid-June, switched over to a summer harness-racing season, and on Friday was to begin a fall-winter meet.

LOUISIVILLE, Ky. -- When Beverly Park led all the way in winning a starter-allowance Wednesday at Churchill, the 5-year-old horse notched his 11th victory of 2022, easily tops in North America. Next in the standings is Exit Right (eight wins), based at Parx Racing.

Beverly Park “is just an amazing animal,” said Norman “Lynn” Cash, who trains the Kentucky-bred son of Munnings in the name of Built Wright Stables, which he owns with his wife, Lola.

Gregorian Chant, a two-time stakes winner in 2021 who was a game second in the Wickerr Stakes at Del Mar on July 24, is on schedule for a start in the Grade 2 Eddie D Stakes for turf sprinters at Santa Anita on Oct. 1.

Gregorian Chant was entered in the Grade 2 FanDuel Turf Sprint at six furlongs at Kentucky Downs on Sept. 10, but did not start after trainer Phil D’Amato expressed concern about potential wet weather.

“He never got on the plane,” D’Amato said.

The Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile at Keeneland on Nov. 5 will be the next start for Laurel River, the dazzling winner of the Grade 2 Pat O’Brien Stakes at seven furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 27.

Trainer Bob Baffert said on Thursday that Laurel River will be better suited to a 10-week gap between starts rather than adding a race to his early-autumn calendar, such as the Grade 1 Awesome Again Stakes at Santa Anita on Oct. 1.

“I’m going to wait for the Dirt Mile,” Baffert said. “He runs better fresh.”

Grade 1 winner Rattle N Roll will be looking for his second straight stakes win Sunday when he takes on seven others in the Grade 3, $400,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park.

The 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds was drawn Thursday. It anchors a card of eight stakes that has a special first post of 3 p.m. Central. The program includes the Grade 3, $200,000 Remington Park Oaks, which also drew a Grade 1 winner in Juju’s Map.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Epicenter and Jackie’s Warrior, the two brightest stars in the Steve Asmussen barn, are scheduled to ship from Saratoga to Keeneland the middle of next week, or “whenever they’ll let us in,” said the Hall of Fame trainer.

Epicenter, clearly the leading 3-year-old in North America following his 5 1/4-length victory in the Aug. 27 Travers, had his latest work Saturday at Saratoga, going five furlongs in 1:02.40 over the Oklahoma training track. Jackie’s Warrior worked Tuesday, going a half-mile in 49.80 seconds.

Jockey Evin Roman, who led the standings at the Golden Gate Fields winter-spring meeting earlier this year, has been suspended seven racing days beginning Sunday for repeated whip violations.

Leo Rodriguez, Roman’s agent, said the jockey is attempting to appeal the decision, which covers the final four racing days of the Golden Gate meeting, which ends on Oct. 2, and the first three days of the Big Fresno Fair, Oct. 7-9.

Part of the purse of the $75,000 Silky Sullivan Stakes for California-bred 3-year-olds at Golden Gate Fields on May 1 has been ordered redistributed after third-place finisher Worse Read Sanchez tested positive for the painkiller lidocaine.

According to a ruling published by stewards at Golden Gate Fields on Sept. 9, Worse Read Sanchez has been disqualified from purse earnings and is officially listed as unplaced. The stewards ordered that $9,000 in purses and incentive awards earned by owners Paul and Zillah Reddam, trainer Doug O’Neill and jockey Armando Ayuso be returned.

Count Again, the winner of the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile at Santa Anita in May, has been taken out of training and will miss the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland on Nov. 5.

Trainer Phil D’Amato said on Wednesday that he was unsatisfied with the way Count Again has trained in the last month. The 7-year-old gelding will be rested for a 2023 campaign.

“We’re going to back off on him,” D’Amato said.

D’Amato said Count Again did not have a specific injury, but cited “a bunch of little that things that always culminate at the same time.”

Delaware Park in Wilmington canceled its live Wednesday race card roughly one hour before first post after a power outage disrupted operations in the stable area, the track said.

Delaware had an eight-race card scheduled for Wednesday, with a first post of 12:30 p.m. Eastern. The track said that live racing is expected to resume on Thursday.

Delaware races on a Wednesday-Saturday schedule. The track’s 2022 meet is scheduled to run through Nov. 5.