Somewhere between getting rock-star treatment on television and social media, throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium, and sending her Converse kicks, custom-made for the first Saturday in May, to be displayed at the Kentucky Derby Museum, Cherie DeVaux still has a vast stable of horses to train.

The 2-year-olds have started arriving en masse, many bound for bucolic isolation at the Pea Patch, Ellis Park, and then there’s the minor task of training Derby winner Golden Tempo toward the Belmont Stakes.

Hall of Fame jockey Joel Rosario is returning to familiar surroundings in an effort to revive his career.

Rosario, a former leading rider at Del Mar, Hollywood Park and Santa Anita in the late 2000s and early 2010s, will begin riding on a full-time basis at Santa Anita on Sunday.

Rosario, 41, is booked on four mounts, including Boss Sully in the day’s main race – the $100,000 Siren Lure Stakes for turf sprinters.

“I’m ready for a change,” Rosario said in a phone interview earlier this week.

The first three months of 2026 were a quiet stretch for trainer Andy Mathis. A little too quiet.

From Dec. 28, 2025, the opening day of the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, through April 23, Mathis had one win from 31 runners, with eight second- and third-place finishers.

A three-win day at Santa Anita on April 24 and another win on April 30 has revived the season.

“Finally, things started to break the right way,” Mathis said on Thursday. 

A legislative committee in Maryland has placed a 45-day delay on the state’s purchase of Laurel Park to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the transaction, according to multiple news outlets.

Trainer Vann Belvoir, who finished ninth in the standings at the recently-concluded Turf Paradise meeting in Arizona, will have a 39-horse stable in California this spring and summer. 

The team arrived from Phoenix on Tuesday, three days after the end of the Turf Paradise meeting. Belvoir had 15 wins from 121 runners at Turf Paradise. Belvoir’s stable will be based at Los Alamitos.

Intrepido, winner of the Grade 1 American Pharoah Stakes at Santa Anita last September, will be turned out at a central California farm in coming days after finishing 16th of 18 in the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs last Saturday.

“He’s getting ready to go to the farm,” trainer Jeff Mullins said on Thursday morning.

Mullins did not specify how long Intrepido will be rested. The colt returned to Mullins’s stable at Santa Anita earlier this week and will soon be sent to Kingfisher Farm in Solvang, Mullins said.

“We want to let him settle,” Mullins said.