INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Ryehill Dreamer, winner of the Grade 2 American Handicap on May 28, has been taken out of training with a tendon injury, trainer Julio Canani said.

Owned by Marsha Naify, Ryehill Dreamer won his first stakes in the United States in the American Handicap over a mile on turf, his seventh start in this country. A winner of 5 of 12 starts and $296,807, Ryehill Dreamer, 5, was considered a candidate for the Shoemaker Mile on July 2 before the injury was detected. He is expected to be sidelined until 2012.

Jockey Tony McNeil will not be working this Father’s Day, but he will still be at Lone Star Park on Sunday to watch his sons, Bryan and Erik McNeil, ride against each other in the first three races on the card.

ELMONT, N.Y. – There are times when John Fort thinks to himself that he can’t have a bigger thrill in racing than he had winning the Kentucky Oaks last month with Plum Pretty.

“After the Oaks I said, ‘I can’t have any more fun than this, why even think about racing her again?’ ’’ Fort said Thursday. “But she’s a race horse.’’

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Teaks North and Sleepless Knight, the one-two finishers in the Grade 3 Monmouth Stakes last weekend, could both be heading for the meet’s top turf event: the Grade 1 United Nations on July 2.

Teaks North would be bidding for a second Grade 1 win of the season, having taken the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap.

Teaks North is now 3 for 3 on the course, following his three-quarter length win in the Monmouth. Trainer Jason Sallusto said the 4-year-old gelding came out of the race in good shape and that he’s excited by the Teaks North’s upside potential.

MIAMI – The Summit of Speed is still three weeks away, but one horse already committed to the program is Noble’s Promise, a onetime Triple Crown candidate who has found a second life as a sprinter under the tutelage of trainer Ken McPeek.

Noble’s Promise finished fifth after making the lead at the top of the stretch in the 2010 Kentucky Derby, but following a nice fifth-place effort in the St. James Palace Stakes one year ago at Ascot, McPeek gave him some time off and put him on a new career path, one that has worked out extremely well thus far.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Glen Todd and Patrick Kinsella, the leading owners at Hastings, are intent on winning the Grade 3, $200,000, British Columbia Derby. Early nominations to the premier race at Hastings closed with 56 nominations. The derby heads six stakes races that are scheduled for Sept. 11.

AUBURN, Wash. – Noosa Beach, the rock star of Northwest racing, can add to his string of No. 1 hits when he starts as the high weight and odds-on favorite Sunday in the $50,000 Budweiser Handicap at Emerald Downs.

Santa Anita will conduct a renovation on a portion of its main track beginning this weekend in an effort to reduce the clay content and add sand, the track’s president, George Haines, said.

The project will be conducted in part of the seven-furlong chute not currently used for training. Santa Anita is not currently open for racing, but its main track is used for training. The test plot is in an area measuring approximately 340 feet by 75 feet, or the width of the racetrack along about a sixteenth of a mile.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Dominic Galluscio is trying to corner the market on the Noble Nashua Stakes.

After winning the Noble Nashua for New York-breds at Aqueduct on April 22 with Stormy’s Majesty, Galluscio will seek to win Sunday’s $60,000 Noble Nashua, another one-turn mile race for New York-breds, at Belmont Park with Johannesburg Smile.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Funny how that works. Purses at Churchill Downs have undergone a couple of double-digit increases in recent weeks, and now a second-level allowance worth $67,500 has attracted an oversubscribed field of extremely well matched horses, exemplifying how such a formula can work to the advantage of horseplayers.