ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Plate Trial winner Danish Dynaformer and Grade 3 Marine Stakes winner Shaman Ghost were among the top contenders who worked here last weekend for Sunday’s 156th running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate at Woodbine.

The post position draw will take place in Woodbine’s walking ring Thursday morning, and as of Monday morning a field of 16 was expected for the 1 1/4-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Churchill Downs spring meet ended in dramatic fashion Saturday night when jockey Corey Lanerie rallied aboard Love Your Humor to win the final race of the 38-day meet Saturday, allowing him to edge out Julien Leparoux for the riding title.

It was another highly eventful spring at Churchill, highlighted by a victory in the May 2 Kentucky Derby by American Pharoah, who would proceed to become the first Triple Crown winner in 37 years while stabling here during most of the meet.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Santa Anita ended its 39-day spring-summer meeting Sunday with gains in ontrack attendance and all-sources handle, and a decline in ontrack handle, according to a track official.

Average ontrack handle fell 1 percent, but all-sources handle, including from simulcasting and account wagering, rose 2.3 percent over the corresponding meeting in 2014, according to marketing director Nate Newby.

Ontrack attendance rose 12 percent over last year, the first year Santa Anita ran a spring-summer meeting following the closing of Hollywood Park at the end of 2013.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Fanticola, Masochistic, and Prize Exhibit won the biggest races of their careers at Santa Anita on Saturday.

Fanticola won the $201,000 Royal Heroine Stakes, a Grade 2 for fillies and mares at a mile on turf. Masochistic won his Grade 1 debut in the $300,500 Triple Bend Stakes at seven furlongs. Prize Exhibit won the $101,000 Senorita Stakes, a Grade 3 for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf.

Each is likely to run in races of equal or greater value at Del Mar later this summer.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Last winter, owners Kosta and Pete Hronis and trainer John Sadler were looking for a prospect for the leading races for older horses in California through the year. When they reached a deal to acquire Hard Aces, they bought much more.

They bought a horse bound for the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland on Oct. 31.

Hard Aces won his first graded stakes in Saturday’s $501,500 Gold Cup at Santa Anita. The race is part of the Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In program, offering a fees-paid berth to the BC Classic.

Hard Aces has a clear autumn goal.

ARCADIA, Calif. - American Pharoah did not race at Santa Anita on Saturday, but he was the star of a 10-race program that included four graded stakes.

Between the seventh and eighth races, American Pharoah was paraded in the walking ring and onto the racetrack before an enthusiastic crowd that track officials estimated at 20,000. In some places on the path from the walking ring to the racetrack, racing fans of all ages were lined up six to eight deep to get a close-up look at the 2015 Triple Crown winner.

Ivan Fallunovalot is gearing up for a fall campaign that could include stakes at Del Mar and Remington Park, trainer Tom Howard said Friday. The multiple stakes winner’s options include the Bing Crosby as well as the David M. Vance and the Remington Park Sprint Cup. Ivan Fallunovalot is based at Lone Star Park.

“We really don’t have solid plans yet,” said Howard, who trains the horse for Lewis E. Matthews Jr. “We’ve got some different directions we can go.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – More than 2 1/2 years after his last start, Kung Fu Mambo won his American debut in an optional claimer at a mile Thursday, a win that left trainer Peter Miller considering a start July 25 in the $200,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar.

Kung Fu Mambo, a 6-year-old Argentine-bred, won the Group 1 Derby Nacional in Peru in 2012 in his final start in South America. He was beset with injuries that postponed his American debut until Thursday. Ridden by Mike Smith, Kung Fu Mambo ($33.20) led throughout and won by 4 1/4 lengths over the 3-year-old Desert Dynamo.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The 2-year-old filly Gomo gave owners Paul and Zillah Reddam a remarkable eighth win with a juvenile in the last two months when the filly led throughout a one-mile turf race for maidens Thursday.

Ridden by Mario Gutierrez for trainer Doug O’Neill, Gomo ($2.80) never was urged through the stretch and won by 5 1/4 lengths in 1:39.90.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Prospect Park, second in the Grade 3 Affirmed Stakes at Santa Anita on June 7, will be ridden by Tyler Baze in the $350,000 Los Alamitos Derby on July 4, trainer Clifford Sise said Thursday.

The Grade 2 Los Alamitos Derby will be run at 1 1/8 miles and is the richest race of the two-week summer meeting at Los Alamitos, which runs from Thursday through July 12.

Baze replaces Kent Desormeaux, who is scheduled to ride Texas Red, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last November, in the $500,000 Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park on July 4.