LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Such is the dearth of live sporting events in America these days that the results of an allowance race can become a news item on ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”

Surely the national recognition came about because the coronavirus crisis has rendered all other major sports idle, but let the record show that the comeback victory by Monomoy Girl in a Saturday allowance at Churchill Downs meant the world to trainer Brad Cox, regardless of who else noticed.

“I can’t tell you how proud I am of what she’s done,” Cox said. “She’s just an unbelievable horse.”

Authentic, an undefeated two-time stakes winner, worked six furlongs in 1:11 on Sunday at Santa Anita for a scheduled start in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on June 6.

Authentic won the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on March 7 in what was intended to be a prep for the original date of the Santa Anita Derby on April 4.

Ce Ce, who has stormed to the front of the older female division with consecutive graded stakes wins at Santa Anita and Oaklawn Park in recent months, is likely to run in the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes on May 31 at Santa Anita.

Ce Ce worked five furlongs in 1:00.80 on Sunday at Santa Anita, her second workout since a head victory in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap on April 18 at Oaklawn Park. A 4-year-old filly, Ce Ce won her first stakes in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile on March 14 at Santa Anita.

River Boyne, the star California miler, and War of Will, the 2019 Preakness Stakes winner, will be part of a large field in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on May 25 at Santa Anita, a race with long-term ramifications for the turf mile division.

The winner receives a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland in November.

The $300,000 Shoemaker Mile could have a double-digit field. As of Sunday, runners such as Blitzkrieg, Majestic Eagle, March to the Arch, Neptune’s Storm, Next Shares, True Valour, and Voodoo Song are other probable starters.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine Entertainment announced Saturday that two horses from Barn 12 at Woodbine tested positive for equine herpesvirus. EHV-1, after they were sent to the University of Guelph for testing and treatment.

Three other horses were removed from Barn 12 and were quarantined for precautionary measures. The other horses in that barn will not be permitted outside the barn until test results are received on them. Only after clearance is provided through testing will those horses will be allowed to train at a designated time.

Delaware Park plans to submit a revised racing schedule to state regulators and government officials that would set June 17 as opening day for a 65-day meet, the track said on Saturday.

The revised racing schedule will need to be approved by the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission, and Delaware would need to get the go-ahead from the office of Gov. John Carney. Like all other states in the U.S., Delaware is attempting to put together plans to gradually allow some businesses to reopen during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2020 Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore has been rescheduled to Oct. 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Larry Hogan, the governor of Maryland, who made the announcement during a Preakness-themed broadcast on Saturday afternoon, the day the race would have been held this year.

The announcement by Hogan was preceded by a short appearance by Belinda Stronach, the president of The Stronach Group, which owns Pimlico.

Belmont Park will reopen for live racing the first week of June after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Saturday announced that horse racing statewide could begin June 1 under strict guidelines, which include no spectators.

As racing begins to open up on major circuits in Kentucky and California, New York racing is still stuck in limbo, two months and counting without live racing and with no clear-cut answer on when operations can resume.

The New York Racing Association is awaiting an answer from state officials on a plan it submitted last month to run racing at Belmont Park without spectators. Under the original plan, the hope was to begin racing next Friday. Now, it would appear a best-case scenario would be the last weekend of May or perhaps early June.

In reality, nobody knows.

Santa Anita has altered the procedure and personnel involved in guiding horses from the saddling area to the track, beginning with the resumption of racing Friday.

The procedure is similar to previous plans significantly limiting the number of people needed to attend to horses prior to races. The conditions were put in place because of the coronavirus outbreak.