Under a tentative agreement, a five-week fair will take place at Pleasanton starting June 18, and two weeks awarded to Cal Expo will be run at Golden Gate Fields. Training five days a week at Golden Gate beginning June 13.

CG Racing’s Tapit Doux drew off to a 9 1/4-length victory at Indiana Grand May 18 to reward Calumet Farm’s Bal a Bali with his first winner.

Authentic, the 2020 Horse of the Year who won the Haskell Stakes, and Midnight Bisou will join Monmouth Park’s Hall of Champions when the track kicks off its 76th season of racing May 28.

Heron Stakes winner and St. James’s Palace Stakes (G1) second King of Comedy is to join the stallion roster at Novara Park Stud in Waikato, New Zealand.

Shadwell Stable’s undefeated 3-year-old filly Malathaat, winner of the Kentucky Oaks (G1) April 30, will skip the June 5 Belmont Stakes (G1) and point toward this summer’s Saratoga Race Course meeting, according to Tamarkuz Media.

There will be no general admission for spectators at Royal Ascot this year with the course preparing for a maximum attendance of 4,000 people for each day of the meeting next month.

Unlikely to race in the Belmont Stakes (G1) is O Besos, the fifth-place finisher from the Kentucky Derby (G1). Trainer Greg Foley said he is considering the Ohio Derby (G3) at Thistledown June 26 for the colt’s next start.

The May 15 Preakness Stakes (G1) at Pimlico Race Course averaged an audience of seven million viewers, ranking it as the most-watched broadcast of the event since Triple Crown-winner Justify’s victory in 2018, according to NBC Sports.

Pure Prize, a two-time leading sire in Argentina who produced grade 1 performers in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, died May 15 at Haras La Providencia. The son of Storm Cat, who died from complications of a stroke, was 23.

Any athlete will tell you that nutrition is an important part of the equation when it comes to performance—and that is no different when it comes to racehorses.