Bayern, the unbeaten 3-year-old scratched from the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes on March 8, has resumed racetrack exercise, trainer Bob Baffert said.

Baffert said Bayern was sent to the track Wednesday. Owned by Kaleem Shah, Bayern beat maidens by 3 1/4 lengths in a race over seven furlongs in his debut Jan. 4 and won a one-mile allowance race by 15 lengths Feb. 13.

Baffert said Bayern will be considered for two $1 million races in early April – the Santa Anita Derby on April 5 or the Arkansas Derby on April 12.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The 155th running of the $1 million Queen’s Plate headlines a 2014 Woodbine stakes schedule that includes 102 races worth almost $20 million.

The Queen’s Plate will be the featured race on the July 6 card that also includes three graded stakes: the Grade 2 Dance Smartly, Grade 2 Highlander, and Grade 3 Singspiel.

The $500,000 Breeders’ Stakes completes the Canadian Triple Crown at Woodbine on Aug. 17, while the middle jewel, the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, will be run at Fort Erie on July 29.

Miss Serendipity is entered in Saturday’s $350,000 Santa Margarita, but trainer Ron McAnally said Thursday that the 6-year-old mare is likely to run in the $200,000 Santa Ana Stakes on turf Sunday instead.

“More than likely, it will be the turf,” McAnally said. “She won her big race in Argentina on the grass. The owner will be here Friday, and we’ll make a decision.”

Ciao Bella Luna is the rare Kentucky-bred eligible to race in stakes for California-breds.

The 4-year-old filly is by the California-based stallion Tribal Rule. A few years ago, conditions for California-breds were broadened to include California-bred and California-sired horses. The new restriction allowed Ciao Bella Luna to start in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf Sprint here Jan. 25, a race she won.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Game On Dude, who won the $750,000 Santa Anita Handicap for a record third time March 8, will start in the $1.5 million Charles Town Classic in West Virginia on April 19, trainer Bob Baffert confirmed Thursday.

He described Game On Dude’s status for the rich race over 1 1/8 miles as “definite.”

Thanks in large part to revenue generated by ThistleDown’s video lottery terminals, the purse of the Ohio Derby has been raised from $100,000 to $300,000 this year. The Ohio Derby will be run July 19.
The Ohio Derby offered a $300,000 purse from 1989 through 2001 and peaked at $350,000 from 2004 to 2006. The purse was dropped to $100,000 beginning in 2010. Long a Grade 3 race, the Ohio Derby was downgraded to a listed stakes for this year.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – On the heels of Social Inclusion’s record-setting, 10-length allowance victory over Honor Code on Wednesday at Gulfstream Park, owner Ron Sanchez’s phone has been ringing off the hook with offers to buy all or a portion of the 3-year-old sensation.

The Rebel Stakes for 3-year-olds will be supported by the Grade 2, $200,000 Azeri and the Grade 3, $200,000 Razorback Handicap on a Saturday card bolstered this year to create a preview day for some of the Racing Festival of the South stakes the final week of the Oaklawn Park meet.

The Azeri drew a field of seven when entries were taken Wednesday. The 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares, designed to produce starters for the Grade 1, $600,000 Apple Blossom, will go as the eighth race. It’s the first of the stakes, which will be run consecutively Saturday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – If trainer Billy Gowan needs any Hall of Fame advice with Ride On Curlin, who runs Saturday in the Grade 2, $600,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park, he just needs to walk a few paces up his shed row to the stable of Jack Van Berg.

“It’s great to be able to pick his brain,” Gowan said.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Ken McPeek said he was both pleased and frustrated with Golden Ticket’s second-place finish in Saturday’s Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Handicap. Golden Ticket rallied to reach even terms with the victorious Palace Malice in late stretch before being outkicked to the wire, dropping a head decision while making his first start since the Grade 1 Stephen Foster more than three months earlier.

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