Fonner Park in Grand Island, Neb., announced Tuesday it has dropped one day of racing from its calendar, May 20. It is a Wednesday card, and it was part of 12 additional dates of racing approved for the month of May. The one-day reduction is being made as more racing opportunities are coming on line in late May and early June.

Fonner noted in a press release that horses from its stable area are starting to move on to new meets that will be starting in such states as Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota, and Texas.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill Downs officials announced Tuesday a partially updated list of qualifying races for the Kentucky Derby and Oaks while also making contingencies for the Preakness and/or Belmont Stakes in case either precedes the Derby.

Nine new points races for the Derby are listed, starting with the May 23 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill. Points for the Matt Winn have been increased to 85 (50-20-10-5), up substantially from the 17 points originally (10-4-2-1) designated for the race when Churchill began to reset its schedule earlier this month.

Without a viable option on dirt or synthetic – two surfaces over which she has won – W W Fitzy could make her turf debut in Saturday’s $75,000 Powder Break Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

W W Fitzy, a 4-year-old Illinois-bred daughter of Well Positioned, won an open-company allowance going a mile on dirt by eight lengths April 3 at Gulfstream, earning a career-best 90 Beyer Speed Figure.

Constitution, the 2014 Florida Derby winner and sire of Kentucky Derby contenders Tiz the Law and Gouverneur Morris, had his first 2-year-old winner of 2020 when Repole Stable’s Hyperfocus won his debut here Saturday.

Trained by Todd Pletcher, Hyperfocus raced greenly but still was able to run down Peppi to win by 1 1/4 lengths under Irad Ortiz Jr. Breakthrough, a son of 2016 Florida Derby and Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, finished third.

Hyperfocus was purchased for $100,000 at the 2019 Keeneland September sale.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Under normal circumstances, Tonalist’s Shape’s seventh-place finish as the favorite in the Grade 2 Gulfstream Oaks on March 28 may have derailed any chance she had of competing in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks. But with this year’s renewal of the Kentucky Oaks postponed four months until Sept. 4 due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is plenty of time to regroup, which Tonalist’s Shape will do beginning Friday as the likely favorite here in the $75,000 Hollywood Wildcat Stakes.

Handle figures continue to rise at the Los Alamitos evening meeting with few tracks nationwide operating because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Sunday, Los Alamitos handled a record $2,901,650 on a nine-race program of races for Quarter Horses and lower-level Thoroughbreds, eclipsing the previous mark of $2,843,573 from April 25.

Trainer Justin Clark has been suspended six months and fined $1,500 after two of his runners tested positive for the prohibited medication clenbuterol in races at Los Alamitos in January.

The suspension began May 4 and continues through Dec. 29. The decision was announced in a ruling published May 1 by Los Alamitos stewards Ron Church, James Dreyer, and Tom Ward.

Richard Baltas, leading trainer at the interrupted Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, is currently serving a 15-day suspension for a medication violation and will not have any starters in his name until May 22.

Baltas said Sunday that some horses from his stable could run this weekend under the direction of an assistant.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - A victory by the 25-1 Areyoutalkingtome in the afternoon’s finale provided a shocking end to a challenging Rainbow 6 sequence that returned $31,476.56 for a 20-cent wager Saturday at Gulfstream Park.  The mandatory force-out of the jackpot began with a carryover of just under $1.5 million and attracted $10,654,456 in new wagers.

Santa Anita has yet to receive approval from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health to resume racing on Friday amidst the coronavirus outbreak, according to a statement released early Saturday.

The track has not operated since March 22 and was ordered closed by county health officials on March 27 when it was deemed a nonessential business because of the pandemic. Training has continued since late March with the hope that racing would resume.