Tracy Farmer’s homebred Sir Winston, twinner of the 2019 Belmont Stakes Presented by NYRA Bets (G1), is likely to make his return to Belmont Park in the $80,000 Flat Out Stakes June 11.

Trainer Brendan Walsh reported May 24 that Matt Winn Stakes (G3) winner Maxfield exited Saturday’s race in good shape and his team will begin planning for the next start.

An agreement was made May 22 following a number of protests around the country about the racing shutdown.

Exultant read every line of their script perfectly in the May 24 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (G1) at Sha Tin Racecourse and the final group 1 scene in a dramatic year of Hong Kong racing could make the winner Horse of the Year.

Midway down the stretch run in the Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks, G1) Daring Tact still had lots to do and enough traffic in front of her to clog the Ginza on a busy shopping day.

When Maxfield crossed the finish line in the $150,000 Matt Winn Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs, the son of Street Sense stamped himself as a serious contender for the upcoming American classics.

An hour and a half after Wildman Jack set the stage by taking the $100,000 Daytona Stakes (G3T) by a nose at Santa Anita Park, United won the $200,000 Charles Whittingham Stakes (G2T) May 23 with a finish just as close.

Wildman Jack, fresh off a group win in Dubai, captured a graded victory in a photo finish at Santa Anita Park May 23. The Doug O’Neill-trained 4-year-old, ridden by Mike Smith, got his nose down at the wire to win the $101,000 Daytona Stakes (G3T).

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners and Gainesway Stable’s Sharing proved that her well of talent runs deep May 23, when she cruised to an easy 1 1/4-length victory in the $100,000 Tepin Stakes at Churchill Downs. 

A year after Everfast and Owendale ran second and third, respectively, in the 2019 Preakness Stakes (G1), the 4-year-olds had another memorable meeting, this time with Owendale victorious in the $100,000 Blame Stakes May 23.

A revised stakes schedule featuring a new date for the Longacres Mile (G3) was announced May 23 by Emerald Downs.

In her first start since the Breeders’ Cup, Dunbar Road found her way back the winner’s circle with a strong rally in the $100,000 Shawnee Stakes May 23 at Churchill Downs. 

Following a loss for the first time in her five-race career in the one-mile Buena Vista Stakes (G2T) Feb. 22, Jolie Olimpica (BRZ) returns to tried-and-true conditions in Monrovia Stakes (G2T) May 25 at Santa Anita Park.

Restrainedvengence has a pair of stakes wins on dirt and another pair of stakes wins on turf, and the 5-year-old gelding will try for his first stakes score on a synthetic surface May 25 in the $100,000 All American Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.

Keeneland’s May 22 announcement of a short summer race meet this year from July 8-12, pending expected approval from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission Dates Committee, was met with enthusiasm by leading trainers.

The BHA issued 33 pages of safety protocols that must be followed at race meetings.

Call The Wind, a talented 6-year-old trained by Freddy Head, could turn the May 24 Prix de Barbeville (G3) at Deauville into a one-horse race.

You will not find a page in Chad Brown’s playbook that calls for shipping a filly across the country for her first start in the United States. Yet this year, exceptions have become the norm.