Trainer Mark Casse expressed excitement for the debut of the well-bred Coinage in the opening race May 21 at Belmont Park. By Tapit, Coinage is out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Bar of Gold, winner of the 2017 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint (G1).

Following the Government of Ontario’s May 20 announcement of a three-step ‘Roadmap to Reopen’ the economy plan, Woodbine said it plans to open for its COVID-19 delayed Thoroughbred meet June 18.

The Road, presented by Gainesway

The session on May 20 saw weanlings bred by the late Hamdan Al Maktoum of Shadwell Stud put on the open market for the first and last time.

The final group 1 race of the Hong Kong season, the May 23 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (G1), will be contested among locals and that’s just fine and dandy with the trainer of reigning Horse of the Year Exultant.

Two-time graded stakes winner Get Smokin returns to the site where he broke his maiden two years ago, competing as part of an eight-horse field of 4-year-olds and up in the $100,000 Seek Again Stakes May 22 going a mile on turf at Belmont Park. 

Michael McCarthy, who just won his first Triple Crown race with Rombauer in the May 15 Preakness Stakes (G1), has entered multiple grade 1 winner Ce Ce in the $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes (G2) at Santa Anita Park May 22.

Dual grade 1 winner Charlatan has been sidelined due to a physical setback and will undergo reevaluation next month, co-owner Jack Wolf of Starlight Racing said May 20.

Jason Beem has been hired as the announcer at Tampa Bay Downs and will begin June 30 for the track’s two-day Summer Festival of Racing. The Florida track’s primary meet is from fall through spring.

Dual grade 1 winner Charlatan has been sidelined due to a physical setback and will undergo re-evaluation next month, co-owner Jack Wolf of Starlight Racing said May 20.