OPELOUSAS, La. – You know you are having a great season when it is news when you don’t win. Just three times in the first 40 nights of the current Evangeline Downs stand have leading trainer Karl Broberg and leading jockey Colby Hernandez been shut out. Their individual numbers are staggering. When they team up, they are almost otherworldly.

“We can hardly believe it ourselves,” said Broberg, who has sent out 62 winners from 112 starters this season for a remarkable strike rate of 58 percent and a $2.85 ROI. “We made some changes to begin the season, and it has really paid off.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In his final morning of training at Churchill Downs during what has been an historic spring, American Pharoah was sent out for a quick one-mile jog early Wednesday over a sloppy racetrack.

Jimmy Barnes, assistant to trainer Bob Baffert, had contemplated keeping the latest Triple Crown winner in the barn because of the rain. But during a lull at about 7 a.m., the colt was tacked up and sent to the track with regular exercise rider Jorge Alvarez aboard, going through his paces with deliberation and without incident.

Stanley Mankin, a breeder, owner, and trainer who competed on the Nebraska circuit and in recent times had been racing at Canterbury, died on Saturday, according to friends. He was 72.

Mankin died in Grand Island, Neb. His best runners included Skunktail, a popular Nebraska-bred stakes winner who won 20 races, and Wild Jacob, a multiple stakes winner bred in Maryland.

Mankin saddled his first winner on March 13, 1992, at Fonner Park.

When Karl Broberg asked C.J. McMahon if he would ride first call for his stable this meet at Lone Star Park, the 20-year-old jockey did not hesitate to join forces with the man who currently ranks as the leading trainer in wins in North America.

“I told him, ‘No problem,’ ” McMahon said. “It was a great opportunity. Those opportunities don’t always come along.”

A community-wide fund-raising effort during the Preakness meet at Pimlico helped raise more than $65,000 for the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance, according to the Maryland Jockey Club. Fund-raising events included Canter for the Cause, an All-Female Handicapper Challenge, the raffle of a John Deere Gator, and Karaoke for the Cause. In addition, Sagamore Racing donated $30,000 to the TAA.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ageless wonder Jon Court followed his 32-1 upset Saturday night aboard Frivolous in the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis with a 10-1 triumph on Honey Lake in a 1 1/2-mile turf allowance on Sunday.

Frivolous and Honey Lake both are 5-year-old G. Watts Humphrey homebred mares trained by Humphrey’s daughter Vicki Oliver.

Court, 54, has won with 15 of 90 mounts at the spring meet, with his return on investment a lucrative $3.40 for every $2 win bet.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – All-sources handle for the 11-race Saturday night card was $8,089,559, up 14 percent from the corresponding program last year, when $7,084,280 was bet. Ontrack handle from the announced crowd of 28,986 was $1,450,970, up nearly 9 percent.

Boosted by the appearance of Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, attendance for the night was the highest in the four years since the Stephen Foster was first run under the lights. The record for a night crowd here is 38,142, set on opening night of the 2011 spring meet.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Missing Sefa will make her 109th career start Thursday when she lines up against seven other fillies and mares in the fourth race at Churchill, and owner-trainer Jamie Grubbs said the 13-year-old mare will be very happy to do so.

“She loves what she does,” Grubbs said this week from her Belterra Park barn. “She loves training and being at the track and all the attention she gets. We’ll stop on her as soon as she says she’s ready, but so far, that day hasn’t come.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Highs and lows are to be expected in racing, but what Norman Casse went through in less than 24 hours last weekend was excessive.

Casse suffered a staggering blow with the loss of Danzig Moon, who was euthanized Sunday at Woodbine after breaking down in the Plate Trial. As the son and assistant of trainer Mark Casse, Norman Casse had spent the most time around the colt this winter and spring in Florida and Kentucky.

“We’ve had horses get hurt and break down,” Casse said Tuesday at Churchill Downs, “but not one like this.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – Stellar Wind, fourth in the Kentucky Oaks, is expected to start favored Saturday in the Grade 2 Summertime Oaks. Her confirmed rivals include Tara’s Tango, stretching out from a good sprint, and the Southwest-based Scat Means Go, third last out in the Grade 3 Eight Belles at Churchill Downs.

Henry Dominguez trains Scat Means Go, who arrived in California on Sunday and is being handled by local trainer Caesar Dominguez, Henry’s brother.