Recharge, winner of last year’s Sunland Park Oaks, drew the rail in a field of nine for the Grade 3, $300,000 Houston Ladies Classic that runs Saturday at Sam Houston Race Park.

Recharge is 2 for 2 over the main track at Sam Houston, where she won an allowance ahead of the Sunland Park Oaks and won an allowance in her most recent start Jan. 3.

The complete Houston Ladies Classic field from the rail is: Recharge, Our Pretty Woman, Our Davina, Alpine Princess, Hoosier Philly, Free Like a Girl, Miss Code West, Flashy Lass, and Kara.

Corrina Corrina, the all-time richest New Mexico-bred Thoroughbred, did not come out of the starting gate in the Bold Ego on Friday at Sunland Park, but emerged from the incident in good order and is scheduled to run back in the track’s $90,000 La Coneja, trainer Gary Cross said Saturday.

“She’s okay,” he said. “She reared up when they kicked it and didn’t leave the gates.”

The La Coneja is a six-furlong race for New Mexico-bred fillies and mares. It will be run Jan. 31 at Sunland.

Olivia Twist, a half-sister to $3 million earner Skippylongstocking, has been retired, trainer Todd Fincher said last week. The 5-year-old by Mshawish races for a partnership and in her last start Nov. 26 was second in the Zia Park Distaff.

Olivia Twist was a two-time stakes winner during her career and overall compiled a career record of six wins from 15 starts for earnings of $321,572.

“She’s a nice filly, been very good to us,” Fincher said.

Olivia Twist is likely to be bred to Curlin.

The unbeaten Take Charge Tom is on pace to make his next start in the $400,000 Sunland Park Derby on Feb. 16 after winning the local prep last Friday in New Mexico.

Take Charge Tom tracked the pace en route to a length win over favorite Smash It in the $100,000 Riley Allison Derby. For the effort, Take Charge Tom earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 77.

“I thought he ran quite well, first time going two turns – and that Smash It is no slouch,” Robertino Diodoro, who trains Take Charge Tom, said Saturday.

A pair of first-level allowance/$25,000 optional-claiming races – a route over the Tapeta track and a sprint on turf – highlight Thursday’s card at Gulfstream Park, and trainer Mark Casse has horses that loom as contenders in both.

In race 7, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles over Tapeta, Casse sends out Street Earnings, who has to overcome post 9 in a field of 10 colts and geldings. Street Earnings comes into this race having finished second in two starts in this condition, one at this trip last October and one on turf going a mile in November.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Senor Buscador, the 10th highest earning North American Thoroughbred in racing history, has been retired less than a week before his scheduled start in Saturday’s $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational.

Trainer Todd Fincher sadly announced the news just hours after breezing Senor Buscador four furlongs in 49.84 seconds here Sunday morning under jockey Junior Alvarado and only minutes before his name was expected to be in the box when entries were drawn for the Pegasus World Cup, a race Senor Buscador had finished second in a year ago.

After considering running Launch in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Inside Information Stakes at Gulfstream Park, trainer Jorge Delgado appears to have found a better spot for the 4-year-old filly, albeit for far less money, in a conditioned allowance race Wednesday at Tampa Bay Downs.

The six-furlong distance of Wednesday’s $54,500 race 8 was more attractive to Delgado than the seven furlongs of the Inside Information – especially since Launch ran third in the Sugar Swirl Stakes on Dec. 21 at Gulfstream, her first start off a six-month layoff.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The connections of Amedeus Music are hopeful the New York-bred can rekindle the success he enjoyed at last winter’s Aqueduct meet when he makes his first start of this winter’s Aqueduct season in a statebred second-level allowance/optional $45,000 claimer that goes as the feature on Thursday’s eight-race card.

Beginning Thursday, first post for eight-race cards at Aqueduct is 1:10 p.m. and first post for nine-race cards – typically only Saturdays – is 12:40 p.m.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mother Nature pulled a fast one on Banishing, and that’s tough to do.

Banishing is the fastest horse to have raced so far at this Oaklawn Park meet based on Beyer Speed Figures, but even he was unable to outrun the winter weather that pushed his planned Monday start to Thursday.

Banishing was to have stepped up into the overnight stakes ranks for the $145,000 Byerley Turk on Monday, but the entire card had to be moved, as drawn, to Thursday.