Mighty B Valiant, who is one of the nation’s top-ranked 2-year-old Quarter Horses, heads the list of entries for two nights of trials for the Grade 1, $1,039,400 Heritage Place Futurity at Remington Park. The finale is May 28.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Bryant McAfee, a former executive director of the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association of British Columbia, died Monday at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver. He was 76.

McAfee was the executive director of the horsemen’s association from 1978 until his retirement last year. He also served in the same capacity for the national horsemen’s association of Canada.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Urban Forester will step up in class off an authoritative maiden win Friday at Woodbine in the only non-claiming race on the card, a six-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.

Urban Forester was bet down to nearly 6-1 in his lone 2-year-old outing in September. After running prominently throughout the five-furlong dash, he wound up third, three-quarters of a length behind Calius and future stakes winner Citius.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A total of 22 horses were entered Wednesday morning in Saturday's 137th Kentucky Derby, according to the Churchill Downs communications department.

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Because a maximum of 20 horses are allowed to run in the Derby, two were excluded, based on graded stakes earnings. They are Sway Away and Ruler On Ice.

Newly acquired Perfect Officer foiled trainer Howie Wolfendale’s bid to win the closing-day feature at Atlantic City Race Course for the fourth straight time when he ran down defending champion Blue Sailor in deep stretch to take the $52,450 Tony Gatto Dream Big Stakes by a neck Tuesday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There has been no more compelling story at this year’s Kentucky Derby than that of Mucho Macho Man, whose trainer Kathy Ritvo is a heart-transplant survivor and whose former rider, Eibar Coa, has made a remarkable recovery since being left temporarily paralyzed from a riding mishap at Gulfstream Park.

Plagued by poor weather and a lack of horse inventory, the 41-day Hawthorne Race Course winter-spring meet that ended Saturday suffered significant handle declines.

Jimmy Shircliff and Harvey Diamond were inspired one day when staring at a particularly historic part of the Churchill Downs architecture when they came up with a name for a horse they owned. A gray colt by Harlan’s Holiday became Twinspired.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If Unrivaled Belle is to record a repeat victory in the Grade, $300,000 La Troienne Stakes at Churchill Downs, she will again have to defeat a Kentucky Oaks winner and reigning champion to do so.

Calibrachoa has not fully recovered from the bruised foot that knocked him out of last month’s Grade 1 Carter and thus will not enter Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Churchill Downs Stakes here. Trainer Todd Pletcher said Calibrachoa would point to the True North Handicap at Belmont Park on June 11.