ALTOONA, Iowa – Trainer Ron Moquett enjoyed a big Friday night as two of his horses, Gentlemen’s Bet and Livi Makenzie, won stakes races on opening night of Prairie Meadows’ two-card Iowa Festival of Racing.

Gentlemen’s Bet fended off a persistent challenge from North America’s top rated sprinted Delaunay to take the $125,000 Iowa Sprint Handicap by 1 3/4 lengths. Now 5 for 6 lifetime, the 4-year-old Half Ours colt, according to Moquett, “looked great this morning” and will return to Louisville.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Calidoscopio, the winner of the Breeders’ Cup Marathon at Santa Anita last November, emerged from his win in the Grade 2 Brooklyn Handicap at Belmont Park on June 7 with heat in a leg and has been retired, trainer Mike Puype said.

The 10-year-old Calidoscopio is expected to return to Argentina in coming months, Puype said. Calidoscopio began his career in Argentina before being sent to the United States last fall in advance of the BC Marathon.

Travel problems prevented jockey Robby Albarado from making it to Prairie Meadows in time to ride lightly raced 4-year-old Gentlemen’s Bet in Friday night's $125,000 Iowa Sprint. Albarado’s absence gave David Mello the opportunity to pick up the mount. Mello made the most of his chance by guiding Gentlemen’s Bet to victory over 1-5 favorite Delaunay.

Eleven months ago, Flashy American won her maiden while running for a $25,000 claiming tag. Friday night at Prairie Meadows, the much improved 4-year-old filly Flashy American was a dominant winner in a $100,000 Iowa Distaff.

Israel Ocampo had never ridden the filly Livi Makenzie before he was named as a late replacement for the absent Robby Albarado on Friday night at Prairie Meadows. But Ocampo was wise enough to change tactics, asking Livi Makenzie to stalk the pace rather than go to the front as she usually does in the $100,000 Saylorville Stakes for fillies and mares.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Brian Lynch can return to his barn at Woodbine on Saturday after the Ontario Racing Commission lifted a suspension that it had imposed while conducting its own investigation into an incident in a Woodbine parking lot on May 24.

Lynch allegedly had been involved in a confrontation with jockey Sunny Singh, and was arrested here the following day by Toronto police and charged with uttering death threats and unsafe operation of a motor vehicle.

Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., has received city approval for a 58,085 square-foot addition to its grandstand in a project scheduled to begin in May 2014.

The addition would expand the track’s gaming center, allowing for 500 player positions to be added to the existing 1,000 positions, according to documents from the city of Hot Springs. The expansion was confirmed by Jennifer Hoyt, a spokesperson for Oaklawn.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Itsmyluckyday continues a comfortable recovery from a small fracture of a hip bone suffered while challenging Verrazano in the Pegasus Stakes here on June 16.

The colt, second to Oxbow in the Preakness, is confined to four months of stall rest at trainer Eddie Plesa's barn at Monmouth.

"He's doing great," Plesa said. "He's doing fantastic."

And he's not doing much of anything, letting the injury heal on its own.

Seven stakes winners are among the nine horses entered in the $40,000 Front Range at Arapahoe Park on Sunday. The field for the seven-furlong race includes the winners of the meet’s last two sprint stakes, E F Five and No It Ain’t, as well as defending Front Range winner Hezamazing and sharp Idaho invader Memo to Mya.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Thursday’s $150,000 Swaps Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/8 miles will have a small field. As of Friday, the probable starters included Chief Havoc, Dice Flavor, Java’s War, Tiz a Minister, and Power Broker.