Trainer Mark Casse, whose major victories include Triple Crown races in both the United States and Canada as well as at the Breeders’ Cup and Royal Ascot, and Wise Dan, a two-time Horse of the Year and six-time Eclipse Award winner, were announced on Wednesday by the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame as this year’s inductees from the contemporary ballot.

There will be five others among the Hall of Fame induction class of 2020. Jockey Darrel McHargue and the 1870s racehorse Tom Bowling were chosen by the historic review committee, and three persons – Alice Headley Chandler and the late Keene Dangerfield Jr. and George Widener Jr. – were announced as Pillars of the Turf.

All are scheduled to be inducted on Aug. 7 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., where the Hall of Fame is located, but the annual ceremony, held at the Fasig-Tipton Sales pavilion, is in jeopardy owing to the coronavirus pandemic. In a release, the Hall of Fame it is “monitoring state and health regulations in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic and will be acting in accordance with those policies and best practices.

“A decision on the status of the 2020 induction ceremony will be forthcoming,” the release said.

Casse and Wise Dan were the only two of the 11 finalists on the contemporary ballot who garnered at least 50-percent support from the Hall of Fame’s 167 voters, who could select as many candidates as they wished. The nine who failed to make the cut were the horses Blind Luck, Game On Dude, Havre de Grace, Kona Gold, and Rags to Riches; trainers Christophe Clement, Doug O’Neill, and David Whiteley, and jockey Corey Nakatani. The Hall of Fame does not release vote totals.

A full story with details on all the inductees will be up in a bit at www.drf.com