The Laurel Park racing office took entries Tuesday in anticipation of potentially reopening as early as Saturday, but without any guarantees that the Maryland track would be allowed to return to live racing this week.

Charlatan, winner of the first division of the Arkansas Derby in his stakes debut May 2, had an initial test sample come back positive for an undisclosed medication, multiple sources told Daily Racing Form. If confirmed by a second test, it could result in his disqualification.

Charlatan was a front-running winner of the Arkansas Derby, his third win in three starts. The Arkansas Derby was run on Oaklawn Park’s closing day after being postponed from its original date of April 11.

Irad Ortiz Jr., who has won the Eclipse Award as the nation’s outstanding rider the last two years, has been suspended three days for his ride on Rockemperor in Saturday’s Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita.

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Storm the Court, the champion 2-year-old male of 2019, might have his next start in the Grade 3 Los Alamitos Derby on July 4, trainer Peter Eurton said Monday.

Storm the Court is winless in three starts this year and recently underwent precautionary tests after finishing sixth in a division of the Grade 1 Arkansas Derby on May 2 at Oaklawn Park.

“We didn’t find much of anything,” Eurton said. “We gave him a little freshening.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The pressing question will linger for the next few days, if not longer. Will Maxfield run next in the Belmont Stakes or forgo a Triple Crown chance by waiting for something like the Blue Grass Stakes?

This newest dilemma for Godolphin and trainer Brendan Walsh has surfaced in the aftermath of Maxfield winning the Matt Winn on Saturday at Churchill Downs. The Street Sense colt stayed unbeaten in three starts with a strong stretch run, earning a 95 Beyer Speed Figure and furthering his stature amid the elite of the 3-year-old class.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Four of the five stakes winners Saturday were making their first start of the year, and all are headed next for graded races.

Besides Maxfield (95 Beyer) in the Matt Winn, those other layoff winners were Dunbar Road, a 90 Beyer Speed Figure in the Shawnee; Sharing, an 84 Beyer in the Tepin; and Owendale, a 99 Beyer in the Blame. Smooth Like Strait, who got a 95 Beyer in winning the War Chant, had gone unraced since Feb. 29.

United, the narrow winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 Charles Whittingham Stakes at Santa Anita, could be sent to Keeneland twice in the second half of this year.

Trainer Richard Mandella has the Breeders’ Cup Turf at Keeneland in November as a long-range goal for United. Mandella said Sunday that the Grade 2 Elkhorn Stakes, tentatively scheduled for July 12 at Keeneland, is a possibility for an early summer race.

“I might look at Keeneland in July,” Mandella said.

In two starts on as many continents this year, Wildman Jack has won group or graded stakes in course record or near-course record time. In both cases, owner and breeder Glenn Sorgenstein watched from his Southern California home out of necessity.

Wildman Jack won the Group 3 Nad Al Sheba Turf Sprint at about six furlongs on turf March 7 at Meydan Racecourse in the United Arab Emirates in course-record time of 1:07.61. Sorgenstein stayed in California instead of traveling to the Middle East.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Despite South Florida being inundated by rain Sunday morning, Kentucky Derby candidates Tiz the Law and Shivaree – the first- and second-place finishers, respectively, in this year’s Grade 1 Florida Derby – were able to get in five-furlong works in preparation for a potential rematch four weeks down the road in the Belmont Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario reported in a Saturday release that containment measures appear to have been successful at reining in an outbreak of equine herpesvirus (EHV-1) at Woodbine.

The AGCO received new test results that suggested the measures employed have continued to contain the neuropathogenic form of EHV-1 to a single barn (Barn 12) at Woodbine.