EAST MARLBOROUGH: Next spring

May seems like a very long time off, but the Willowdale Steeplechase organizers just put out a press release saying they've changed the date of the popular race: it's now going to be the day before Mother's Day rather than Mother's Day itself. The release quoted chairman W. B. Dixon Stroud Jr. as saying that the move was made so that families "will no longer have to choose between a Sunday celebration with Mom or a day at the races." The 2020 date will be Saturday, May 9.