Laurel Park has canceled its Friday card due to an uneven racing surface caused by a freeze-thaw weather pattern this week.

“The track is freezing at night and thawing during the afternoon. It is just uneven,” said Sal Sinatra, general manager of the Maryland Jockey Club, which operates Laurel. “Until we can get some consistency, with it being either above freezing or below freezing for 24-7 where we can work it, we are going to be touch-and-go every day.”

Laurel had to cancel its Martin Luther King holiday card last Monday following freezing rain last Sunday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Following another equine fatality at Aqueduct Thursday – the 14th in 26 full cards of racing since the inner track opened on Dec. 3 – several horsemen met with New York Racing Association management, the second such meeting in 12 days.

Unlike the meeting held on Jan. 10, this one was attended by Chris Kay, NYRA president and CEO, as well as owners and NYRA board members Anthony Bonomo and Michael Dubb. Ten trainers – most of them on the board of the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association – also attended the meeting.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Mike Hushion is mulling his options for Scarly Charly and Captain Serious, both of whom won sprint races over the weekend at Aqueduct.

On Sunday, Scarly Charly won a high-caliber second-level allowance race, earning a 91 Beyer Speed Figure. He ran six furlongs in 1:11.07 over a sloppy track. A 6-year-old gelding, he was running in blinkers for the first time.

“I do think the blinkers made a difference with him,” Hushion said. “He’s a horse that looks around a lot.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sweet Reason, the multiple Grade 1-winning filly who was an Eclipse Award finalist in two categories, recently rejoined trainer Leah Gyarmati’s Belmont Park stable and has begun training toward her 4-year-old debut.

Sweet Reason was sent to a New Jersey farm following her eighth-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita in November.

Gyarmati said Sweet Reason had her first day of galloping Wednesday and is likely several weeks away from a breeze.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The narrow margin of victory hardly does justice to Tencendur’s maiden win against New York-breds at Aqueduct on Monday. The 3-year-old Tencendur overcame significant adversity to record his three-quarter-length victory and may be on to bigger and better things in a few weeks.

With limited options for 3-year-old maiden winners, Tencendur could make his next start in the Grade 3, $250,000 Withers Stakes here Feb. 7, trainer George Weaver said.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Lucky Player, the winner of the Grade 3 Iroquois at Churchill Downs in September, likely will make his next start on grass, said trainer Steve Asmussen. Lucky Player finished eighth in the Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park on Monday.

“I don’t think he handled the racetrack at all, watching the replay,” Asmussen said. “He just jumped up and down in the sand, swapped leads in the dirt, wasn’t holding his head the way he does when you watch him train on a good day. We know he’s better than that. He trains like too nice of a horse.”

Angelica Zapata will be looking for the 11th stakes win of her career Saturday night in the $400,000 Houston Ladies Classic at Sam Houston Race Park.

She has invaded from south Florida to be part of an eight-horse field that includes defending champ Rose to Gold, probable favorite Cassatt, and multiple stakes winners Shanon Nicole and Kiss to Remember.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Shared Belief, the winner of the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes on Dec. 26, worked six furlongs in 1:13.20 at Golden Gate Fields on Wednesday, moving closer to a start in the $500,000 San Antonio Stakes on Feb. 7 at Santa Anita Park.

The San Antonio Stakes will be a showdown between Shared Belief, the champion 2-year-old male of 2013, and California Chrome, the 2014 Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old male. Bayern, the Breeders' Cup Classic winner, is a possible for the race.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Instant Replay could get a shot at next month’s Grade 3, $300,000 Southwest Stakes at Oaklawn Park after winning a first-level allowance at the track in eye-catching fashion Monday. Instant Replay was returning to two turns and finished with a flourish in the 1 1/16-mile race run right before the featured $150,000 Smarty Jones.

“He had been working very well and ran to those works,” said Wayne Catalano, who trains Instant Replay for Gary and Mary West Stables. “We were happy with the performance and hope to move forward.”

Trainer Richie Scherer said last week he was aiming Bourbon Cowboy at the Black Gold Stakes, but Scherer, evidently, found a better spot sooner. Bourbon Cowboy, a sharp second to Cinco Charlie in the Sugar Bowl Stakes here last month, is one of eight horses entered in Friday’s featured eighth race, a first-level, turf sprint allowance for 3-year-olds that’s also open to $50,000 claimers.