ARCADIA, Calif. – In the three weeks since Goldencents finished fourth in the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita on March 9, trainer Doug O’Neill has focused on teaching the two-time stakes winner to reserve his speed.

NEW ORLEANS – Divide and conquer. That’s the strategy outlined this week by trainer Larry Jones with his talented older females Believe You Can and Joyful Victory, who Jones hopes can remain apart and knock off multiple graded stakes before heading to the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic this fall at Santa Anita.

Northlands Park has scheduled 37 stakes races worth $2.1 million for the 80-day meet that begins May 3 and concludes Oct. 14.

The highlight of the year is the Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby. The premier race for 3-year-olds will be contested over a grueling 1 3/8 miles on Aug. 17. The Canadian Derby is the only graded race at the meet. It will be supported by the $75,000 City of Edmonton Distaff for fillies and mares and the $50,000 Westerner for 3-year-olds and up.

ARCADIA, Calif. – It should be relatively easy to find the winner of a five-horse race, but that is not the case in the $70,000 Santana Mile on Sunday at Santa Anita.

A small field entered the main-track stakes, and for every reason to like each of the five starters there is another reason to be skeptical.

One percent of the purse subsidies flowing to horsemen at New York’s tracks from casinos attached to them will be redirected to the New York State Gaming Commission for equine health-related initiatives under a budget approved Thursday night by state lawmakers.

Priceless Feature has had some close calls in Grade 1 races for Quarter Horses, and on Saturday night he will be a leading contender to nail down his first win at that level in the $100,000 Leo at Remington Park. He is part of a 10-horse field in the 400-yard for 3-year-olds and up that figures to produce starters for the Grade 1, $250,000 Remington Park Invitational Championship on June 1.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Fresh off a dominating win here two weeks ago, Spice Swirl is the one to beat as she headlines the field for the $15,000 Runza Stakes going six furlongs at Fonner Park on Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS -- When Unlimited Budget came here to Fair Grounds last month and won the Rachel Alexandra Stakes, the dominoes started to fall into place for her trainer, Todd Pletcher. He was seeking to keep his elite 3-year-old fillies, including Dreaming of Julia and Princess of Sylmar, separated, and Unlimited Budget made that task easier.

The 50 players with the highest bankrolls at the end of the first two days of the National Handicapping Championship will compete for 10 seats at a “Final Table” and the grand prize of the $1.5 million tournament, the organizers of the event announced on Thursday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Aigue Marine, beaten less than a length by Starformer when the pair met for the first time last fall in the Long Island Handicap, could be primed to turn the tables when the two long-winded fillies square off again in Saturday’s $150,000 Orchid at Gulfstream Park.