Entries are drawn and post positions assigned for the reconfigured Iowa Festival of Racing at Prairie Meadows, which has been compressed to two days and mainly is concentrated on Friday night’s card this year.

Dame Plata and Mister Banjoman, two of the most talented Minnesota-breds of their generation, meet again in the $50,000 Victor S. Myers, one of two six-furlong dirt-sprint stakes on the Thursday program at Canterbury Park.

The Myers (race 9, post time 8:10 Central) also drew El Tizar, who closed strongly over a sloppy Churchill Downs track to beat open maidens June 9 in his only start.

El Tizar might be talented enough to contend but he’s changing venues and barns – moving from Mike Tomlinson to Bernell Rhone – and will be playing catchup against two very quick horses.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With the Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks on July 20 scheduled just three weeks after the Mother Goose, trainer Chad Brown said Sunday that Dunbar Road may skip the CCA Oaks and train up to the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga on Aug. 17.

Dunbar Road won Saturday’s Grade 2, $250,000 Mother Goose by 2 1/2 lengths. She ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.54 and earned an 87 Beyer Speed Figure.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Mitole, winner of seven straight races, including the Grade 1 Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont on June 8, returned to the work tab Sunday, breezing a half-mile in 51.07 seconds over the Oklahoma training track in Saratoga.

Bill Heiligbrodt, who along with his wife, Corinne, owns Mitole, said the horse would run next in Saratoga but was noncommittal about the specific race. Mitole is trained by Steve Asmussen.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Cafe Americano is not as accomplished as her Chad Brown-trained stablemates Cambier Parc and Newspaperofrecord, but she may have as good a chance to win Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational.

On Sunday, Cafe Americano worked a half-mile in 48.35 seconds over the Belmont Park turf course, breezing in company with the Grade 1-winning older male Robert Bruce and more than holding her own. She had a head on him at the wire, though Jose Ortiz did have a hammerlock on Robert Bruce in the stretch.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Thursday’s 12-race July 4 program will be highlighted by a $50,000 starter-allowance stakes at 1 1/2 miles on the turf, which lured a familiar-looking field of nine older horses.

The race features a rematch among the first three finishers of a similar event on May 27 – Salute the Colonel, Marshall Eddy, and Whisky N Roses. Also in the field is Second Mate, winner of the restricted Soldier’s Dancer Stakes over a sloppy track on June 8.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine television personality Dawn Lupul has left Woodbine Entertainment Group to pursue a career in the health and fitness field. Sunday marked Lupul’s final day on the Woodbine simulcast feed.

Lupul posted a Twitter message announcing the news prior to Sunday’s card.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Despite having won his three previous starts by a combined margin of more than 17 lengths, Jalen Journey ran arguably the best race of his career in defeat when beaten three-quarters of a length by Diamond Oops in Saturday’s Grade 3 Smile Sprint at Gulfstream Park. It also might have been the last race he’ll run for trainer Kathleen O’Connell.

Jalen Journey, who is owned by Erven Samsel’s Commonwealth Stable, left O’Connell’s barn Monday with his destination Lexington, Ky., for the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July sale.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Queen’s Plate winner One Bad Boy will remain in Canada and run in the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie on July 23, according to trainer Richard Baltas.

The Prince of Wales Stakes, run over 1 3/16 miles on Fort Erie’s dirt track, is the second jewel of the Canadian Triple Crown.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – All-sources handle at the Churchill Downs spring meet that ended Saturday averaged more than $13.1 million per card, up 10.2 percent over the corresponding 2018 meet, according to figures released Monday by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.

Gross all-sources handle at the 38-day meet, which began April 27, was $499,766,224, up by the same 10.2 percent over the spring meet last year, when 38 dates also were run. Ontrack handle figures were not immediately available.