INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Suggestive Boy, the top turf miler in Southern California over the winter, will resume training this week after being given a break for a splint bone injury, trainer Ron McAnally said.

Earlier this year, Suggestive Boy won the Grade 2 Arcadia Mile and Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile on turf at Santa Anita, but was held out of the Maker’s 46 Mile at Keeneland in April after the splint bone injury was detected.

“He’s about ready to start back,” McAnally said Wednesday. “We X-rayed it, and they said it was all healed. It was a little crack. It was very minor.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Jack Frost has a name of great renown, but not from his deeds as a horse trainer.

“My dad was one of 13 kids, all but two of them boys,” said Frost, who lived in and around Huntsville, Ala., for the first half of his 62-plus years. “Everyone always got tagged with some kind of nickname because of our last name. He figured I might as well be the one to make it stick.”

AUBURN, Wash. – Emerald Downs will begin its Friday card 30 minutes early this week, at 6:15 p.m. Pacific, to accommodate an eight-race program that includes the first two Quarter Horse races of the meeting. A field of six will sprint 350 yards in race 1, followed by a mixed group of Quarter Horses and Thoroughbreds going 870 yards in race 2.

It will be like old times Friday when Gary Contessa sends out nine horses on the 10-race program at Belmont Park.

“I haven’t had a day of entries like this in a long time,” said Contessa, New York’s leading trainer from 2006-09, including a record 159 victories in 2007.

Contessa reported that Rydilluc is over a minor foot bruise and on track for the inaugural running of the $500,000 Penn Mile for 3-year-olds June 1 at Penn National.

BALTIMORE – The talent Departing has shown in winning 4 of 5 career starts figures to make him the shortest price among the three newcomers joining the Triple Crown fray Saturday in the Grade  1, $1 million Preakness Stakes at Pimlico. ­Govenor Charlie and Titletown Five are the only other members of the projected field of nine who did not run in the Kentucky Derby.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – For all that Rousing Sermon has accomplished he is light on career wins.

In 16 starts, Rousing Sermon has one stakes win (the 2011 California Cup Juvenile), finished second or third in seven stakes and earned $534,248. He won for the third time in his career in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on April 14 and will be favored to win another optional claimer at Betfair Hollywood Park on Friday.

If he succeeds, the 4-year-old colt may run in a major stakes this summer, possibly the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 6.

BALTIMORE – For Patricia Cooksey, kicking down doors in the male-dominated world of riding was akin to the fight she faced back in 2001, when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

“It was about as tough as battling 11 other male riders in a race,” she said. “The odds are always stacked against you. Sometimes, you just have to approach it like you do riding: Just pick up the reins, take a tight hold, and hold on.”

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – The $50,000 Lady Slipper Stakes for Minnesota-bred fillies and mares is shaping up to be a rematch of last year’s Minnesota Distaff Sprint, with the top five finishers locking horns again in the opening night six-furlong dirt dash.

Leading the way is Minnesota Distaff Sprint champion Polar Plunge, who will be making her 2013 debut. Early in her career the Cam Casby homebred liked to be on the early lead, but trainer Gary Scherer has been able to get her to rate and she should sit behind a contested early pace in the Lady Slipper.

BALTIMORE – The Grade 3, $300,000 Pimlico Special on Friday appears to be a tale of two horses. Last Gunfighter has been in the zone since last fall and seeks his sixth straight win. Richard’s Kid, meanwhile, is attempting to recapture some of his former glory as a multiple Grade 1 winner and a $2.3 million earner.

BALTIMORE - With one eye on a big prize and the other on the future, trainer Bill Mott returns Emollient to dirt in Friday’s Grade 2, $500,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico.