Sir Rick, who was entered in last month’s canceled Grade 3, $700,000 Sunland Park Derby, still has a mile and an eighth stakes start on his dance card. It will come in next Saturday’s $200,000 Oaklawn Stakes, according to trainer Robertino Diodoro.

The race will share a card with the $150,000 Oaklawn Mile, which will draw Diodoro trainee Pioneer Spirit.

Sir Rick worked at Oaklawn Park on Friday, going five-eighths in 1:03. The Oaklawn Stakes will be his first start since capturing the $100,000 Mine That Bird Derby on Feb. 23 at Sunland Park.

Postponing the Kentucky Derby until Sept. 5 has obviously changed the future plans and schedules of dozens of 3-year-olds stabled around the country.

Take Americanus, for instance.

Originally, trainer Mark Hennig was thinking about running his up-and-coming War Front colt in one of the Kentucky Derby preps, possibly the Grade 1 Florida Derby here last Saturday. But with the Kentucky Derby now five months away, Hennig didn’t feel the need to push Americanus, who won a loaded entry-level allowance race going seven furlongs here Feb. 22.

The start of the Lone Star Park meet will be delayed as the Dallas area track complies with the latest restrictions Texas has issued in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, track president Scott Wells said Thursday.

Lone Star had been scheduled to start its meet April 16. However, new restrictions, including some concerning travel and group gatherings, will keep the track from opening its stable area until at least May 3.

I’ll Fight Dempsey came out punching when he scored a front-running 2 1/2-length victory in a six-furlong maiden race at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 29. Saturday, it’s round 2 for the speedy son of Into Mischief, who runs in a seven-furlong optional-claiming race that goes as race 11 on the 12-race program.

The temporary disruption of racing at Santa Anita has not affected the training of Game Winner, the champion 2-year-old male of 2018.

Game Winner has not raced since a win in the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby last July, and had his fourth workout of the year on Thursday, traveling a half-mile in 50 seconds at Santa Anita.

Game Winner has worked a half-mile three times since late February. He worked that distance on Feb. 26, but did not work again until March 26 when he was timed in 49.20 seconds for a half-mile.

With no short-term plans for the resumption of racing at Santa Anita, trainer Richard Baltas is making alternative arrangements for some of his stakes horses.

Baltas said on Thursday that the 3-year-old filly Venetian Harbor, the 3-year-old colt Ginobili, and the older gelding Two Thirty Five are likely to be shipped to Oaklawn Park in Arkansas for upcoming races.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Wesley Ward has had one day circled on his calendar for nearly the last six months, since the first morning he began the arduous ordeal of preparing the 50 or so yearlings in his care last fall for their 2-year-old campaigns. That day was Thursday, April 2, opening day of the Keeneland spring meet.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine Entertainment announced Wednesday that the 161st running of the Queen’s Plate has been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The historic race was originally scheduled for June 27. While a new date has not been confirmed, Woodbine Entertainment intends to host the Plate at Woodbine this year, subject to recommendations and restrictions from government and health officials related to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Girls Know Best, a four-time stakes-winning mare, was recently bred to Uncle Mo, but her racing days may not be over just yet, trainer and part-owner Eddie Kenneally said.

“If they resume racing soon, she could run a time or two more,” said Kenneally, who owns Girls Know Best with Brian Chenvert and Triton Stable.

On March 7 at Gulfstream, Girls Know Best won the Captiva Island Stakes, a five-furlong turf stakes. It was her 13th win from 27 career starts. She has earned $626,847.

Though trainer Mark Casse said he has about 80 percent of his horses with him at his training center in Ocala, Fla., among the ones who are elsewhere are Grade 1 winners War of Will and Got Stormy.