The three-time stakes winner Senor Buscador will start at 1 1/4 miles for the first time in the Grade 1 Hollywood Gold Cup at Santa Anita on May 29, a chance to test the 5-year-old’s ability against some of California’s leading older horses.

Trained by Todd Fincher for Joe Peacock, Senor Buscador has had mixed results in two starts this year. Senor Buscador won the minor Curribot Handicap at 1 1/16 miles at Sunland Park on March 5, and was a troubled fourth in the Grade 2 Oaklawn Handicap at 1 1/8 miles on April 22.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Several riders are serving days for penalties assessed to them by the stewards for careless riding during the Aqueduct meet.

Jockeys Dylan Davis and Samy Camacho were suspended by the stewards for careless riding, as it related to the $200,000 Times Square division of the New York Stallion Stakes on April 22 at Aqueduct. Davis rode Lifetime of Chance to a neck victory over Bank Frenzy, ridden by Camacho.

ELMONT, N.Y. – In 2021, the Parx Racing-based Beren won two stakes at Belmont Park, the Gold Fever and the off-the-turf Paradise Creek.

Saturday, he returns to Belmont for the Grade 3, $175,000 Runhappy Stakes scheduled for six furlongs on dirt. Beren, trained by Butch Reid, comes into the Runhappy off a third-place finish in the Page McKenney Stakes at Parx. In that race, he was beaten three-quarters of a length by Twisted Ride, who was supplemented to this race. Twisted Ride has won four consecutive races for trainer Michael Moore.

ELMONT, N.Y. ­– Nine 3-year-olds were entered Wednesday for Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes, but there does not appear to be an obvious favorite.

Trainer Todd Pletcher entered the pair of Classic Catch and Go Soldier Go. Classic Catch finished fifth in the Wood Memorial, rallying from 10 lengths back to finish 5 1/2 lengths behind Lord Miles. Pletcher is adding blinkers to Classic Catch’s equipment.

ELMONT, N.Y. ­– Led by upset winner Verstappen, four of the top six finishers from the Grade 2 Elkhorn on April 22 at Keeneland will meet again in Saturday’s Grade 1, $600,000 Man o’ War Stakes at Belmont Park.

Verstappen, trained by Brendan Walsh, beat Red Knight by a head in the Elkhorn, run at 1 1/2 miles. Channel Maker, the turf champion of 2020, finished fourth, while Howe Street, the 2-1 Elkhorn favorite, ran sixth.

The stakes schedule for the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif., this summer has been enhanced to include the $150,000 Pleasanton Mile, a newly created race that will be the richest in the history of the Northern California fair circuit.

The Pleasanton Mile will be run on July 9 for 3-year-olds and up at a mile and 70 yards. The race is part of the closing day of the county fair’s four-week meeting, which begins on June 16. The July 9 program will include the $75,000 Everett Nevin Stakes for 2-year-olds at 5 1/2 furlongs.

Hong Kong Harry, second in the Grade 1 Old Forester Turf Classic at Churchill Downs last Saturday, is among three expected starters for trainer Phil D’Amato in the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf at Santa Anita on May 29.

D’Amato has won two of the last five runnings of the Shoemaker Mile, the track’s richest race for turf milers. The winner of the Shoemaker Mile receives a fees-paid berth to the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita on Nov. 4.

Two Phil’s, runner-up in the Kentucky Derby, will skip the Preakness, his trainer Larry Rivelli said Tuesday.

The news was first reported by Jim O’Donnell in the (Chicago) Daily Herald.

Rivelli said Tuesday the two-week turnaround from the Derby to the Preakness was “way too soon.”

“He came back great, but it’s 11 days from today,” Rivelli said Tuesday morning by phone from Hawthorne. “He just got home, he settled in, looks great, but it’s way too soon. There’s no pressure to do it. I might not have run even if he won, which would have been a bigger deal.”