Multiplier, winner of the Grade 3 Illinois Derby at Hawthorne in 2017 and runner-up in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Handicap in 2020, was euthanized as a result of an injury sustained in Sunday’s Grade 3 Tokyo City Cup, according to California Horse Racing Board records.

Multiplier was last in a field of five when he was abruptly pulled up by jockey Ruben Fuentes on the turn. A 7-year-old gelding, Multiplier won 4 of 37 starts. He was claimed for $50,000 in February by trainer Andrew Lerner and had his third start for the stable in the Tokyo City.

Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella may have a memorable Memorial Day weekend next month.

Three of the stable’s leading runners – Royal Ship, Soothsay, and United – are scheduled to run in graded stakes at Santa Anita on consecutive days. All three have won stakes since late March.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Weyburn, the Grade 3 Gotham winner who is pointing to the Grade 3, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes on May 8, worked five furlongs in 1:00.16 on Wednesday morning over the Belmont Park main track.

Working by himself and in blinkers that he typically wears in his races, Weyburn broke off at the half-mile pole and went his opening quarter in 23.51 seconds. He went his second quarter in 23.65 before going his last eighth in 13.00.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Trainer Tony Dutrow will be on a fact-finding mission of sorts Friday when he runs the 3-year-old filly Miss Brazil against older fillies and mares in a second-level allowance race at Belmont Park.

Dutrow is hoping to use the 6 1/2-furlong race as a stepping-stone to either the Grade 1 Acorn going a mile on June 5 or the $150,000 Jersey Girl Stakes going six furlongs on June 6. Both races are at Belmont.

Churchill Downs

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Of all the four-letter words regularly uttered around the racetrack during the course of the year, one not heard very often in the lead-up to the Kentucky Derby was on everybody’s lips when the racetrack opened for training Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs. Snow!

Dream Shake, third in the Santa Anita Derby on April 3, and Get Her Number, fourth in the Arkansas Derby on April 10 at Oaklawn Park, remain in consideration for the Kentucky Derby on May 1 at Churchill Downs, their California-based trainers said Wednesday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mr. Wireless and Stilleto Boy could be considered brothers from another mother. The 3-year-old geldings were raised together, received their early training together, and finished a nose apart for separate trainers when running 1-2 in a maiden special weight March 27 at Oaklawn Park. 

“It just doesn’t happen,” said John Kerber, who from two broodmares bred and owns both horses with his wife, Iveta.

“It was unbelievable,” said Iveta Kerber.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – His two victories in Triple Crown events have come in unconventional ways, so why can’t Ken McPeek make it a full set?

After winning the 2002 Belmont Stakes with Sarava, a 70-1 shot, McPeek won the 2020 Preakness with the filly Swiss Skydiver. As the 2021 Kentucky Derby draws near, McPeek is hoping to complete a personal Triple Crown with King Fury, who looks like he’ll have to make the May 1 race off the also-eligibles list. The Derby is limited to 20 starters, with an AE list of as many of four horses being maintained.

SunRay Park will be the first track in New Mexico to conduct live racing this year when it opens for an 18-date meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses on Friday. The season runs through May 30.

There has been no racing in New Mexico since Zia Park closed in December. Sunland Park follows that season, but its meet was called off due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic prompted SunRay to cancel its 2020 meet.

Sam Houston opens a 23-date meet for Quarter Horses on Friday night and will have a series of guest announcers throughout the season, including a rare female voice in Jessica Paquette.

Paquette became the first woman to call a race on the New England circuit in 2014, when the track’s regular announcer was unable to get to the track before the races started.

“There was a tornado through the area and our announcer got stuck in the traffic,” said Paquette, a 36-year-old native of Massachusetts. “I broke into the announcer booth and called the first race.”