Business as usual wouldn’t be a bad goal for the 120-day race meeting that starts Tuesday at Indiana Grand Racing and Casino, but the question is whether the Indianapolis-area racino can even maintain its status quo.

After averaging 8.5 starters per Thoroughbred race and conducting 1,193 such races during its 2015 meet, Indiana Grand averaged just 8.09 starters in 1,104 Thoroughbred races during the 2017 season. The average number of starters in 176 turf races fell to 8.60, the first time since 2014 that Indiana turf races averaged fewer than nine starters.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainer Peter Miller was fined $3,500 by Santa Anita stewards on Sunday after one of his runners tested in excess of the permitted level of the analgesic phenylbutazone following a workout in January.

Te Amo Mamo had a workout on Jan. 15 as part of the process to be removed from the veterinarian’s list. In a post-workout test, Te Amo Mamo was found to have 2.65 micrograms of bute, which was over the California Horse Racing Board’s limit of 2.0 micrograms. This was Miller’s third such penalty in the last year, according to the stewards’ ruling.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Accelerate, second by a neck in the Grade 1 Oaklawn Handicap in Arkansas on Saturday, will be pointed for the Grade 1 Gold Cup at Santa Anita on May 26, trainer John Sadler said on Sunday.

Accelerate was the 6-5 favorite and 123-pound topweight in the $750,000 Oaklawn Handicap at 1 1/8 miles. Accelerate was second in early stretch and could not hold off fellow Californian City of Light, who carried 120 pounds. Untrapped, the winner of the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park last fall, finished third, beaten 10 1/4 lengths.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Unique Bella, second in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park on Friday after a poor start, is unlikely to race again until early June.

Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer said at Santa Anita on Sunday that Unique Bella is a candidate for two Grade 1 races for fillies and mares – the $400,000 Beholder Mile at Santa Anita on June 2 or the $750,000 Ogden Phipps Stakes at 1 1/16 miles at Belmont Park on June 9.

Oh So Regal won the $150,000 Sunland Park Handicap by four lengths over stablemate Sphene on Sunday and set a track record for 1 1/8 miles. He covered the distance in 1:47.21 to lower the mark of 1:47.37 that Proceed established on April 12, 2015.

The card also included the $162,905 Copper Top Futurity for New Mexico-breds, won by Hustle Up ($3.40).

ARCADIA, Calif. – B Squared has earned $347,128 in his career. Success in California-bred stakes is a major reason for his big bankroll.

On Saturday, B Squared won his third stakes for statebreds in the $100,000 Thor’s Echo Handicap at six furlongs at Santa Anita. He probably will run next in the $100,000 Crystal Water Stakes for Cal-breds at a mile on turf May 20.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Blackjackcat is a candidate for Saturday’s Grade 3 American Stakes at a mile on turf, but trainer Mark Glatt said on Sunday that he was leaning toward running him in the Grade 3 San Simeon Stakes at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course April 29.

Blackjackcat, third in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar last November, finished a quiet fifth as the even-money favorite in the Grade 3 Thunder Road Stakes at a mile on turf here Feb. 10, his only start this year.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Horsepower.

Robert and Lawana Low have got it – whether it’s the couple’s trucking company or their undefeated Kentucky Derby hopeful Magnum Moon.

Churchill Downs is the next stop for Magnum Moon after he ran his record to 4 for 4 with his Saturday win in the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby. The horse was bright and alert Sunday morning at Oaklawn, where he rolled out of the stable area just after 6:30 a.m. to catch a flight to Florida.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Horsepower.

Robert and Lawana Low have got it – whether it’s the couple’s trucking company or their undefeated Kentucky Derby hopeful Magnum Moon.

Churchill Downs is the next stop for Magnum Moon after he ran his record to 4 for 4 with his Saturday win in the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby. The horse was bright and alert Sunday morning at Oaklawn, where he rolled out of the stable area just after 6:30 a.m. to catch a flight to Florida.

INDIANTOWN GAP, Fla. - Florida Derby runner-up Hofburg got back to serious business just after sunrise Sunday morning at Payson Park, breezing an impressive-looking half-mile in 49.02 in company with the older, Grade 1-placed and multiple Grade 2 winner Good Samaritan. 

The lightly raced Hofburg, beaten three lengths by Audible in the Florida Derby, will make his next start May 5 at Churchill Downs in the Kentucky Derby.