ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The slow-starting Killin Me Smalls won a quality maiden special with an impressive stretch kick Nov. 18. He will be back in action in the opener on the final Wednesday card of the Woodbine meet and should be favored in the six-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Several new rules regarding the usage and administration of certain medications in New York that were scheduled to be implemented with Wednesday's opening of Aqueduct's inner track have been amended and will now not go into effect until Dec. 26, according to the New York State Racing and Wagering Board.

The racing board has changed the time frame for the administration of clenbuterol, a bronchodilator, from 21 days to 14 days. It previously had been four days.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Take Charge Indy, winner of the Grade 1 Florida Derby earlier this year, will be back to race again at 4 with his first goal the Grade 1 Donn Handicap on Feb. 9.

WinStar Farm purchased the breeding rights to Take Charge Indy from owners Chuck and Maribeth Sanford earlier this year. Take Charge Indy is by A.P. Indy out of the multiple Grade 1-winning mare Take Charge Lady.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The 82-day layoff that Tiz the Argument has entering Wednesday’s $80,000 Jameela Stakes at Aqueduct is not by design.

“I’ve been wanting to run her for a long time,” said trainer Richard Dutrow Jr., who said he couldn’t find a suitable spot for the 4-year-old filly.

Charles Town Races plans to pay out at least $3.67 million in stakes purses during the 2013 racing season, including the $1.5 million purse for the Charles Town Classic, the track announced Monday.

The total amount of stakes purses does not include the amount the track plans to distribute in the races in the one-day West Virginia Breeders’ Classics, which last year had total purses of $1.345 million for nine races. In the Monday press release, Charles Town said it will announce the purses and schedule for the restricted Breeders’ Classics races at a later date.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Aunt Els had not been among the original nominees to last Sunday’s Ontario Lassie, a $150,000 stakes race for Ontario-foaled 2-year-old fillies.

But after watching Aunt Els score a sharp allowance win over six furlongs here Nov. 23, trainer Norm McKnight decided she deserved a shot, even though she would be trying 1 1/16 miles for the first time.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Youth or experience?

In the racing industry, owners, trainers, and bettors face that question every day when choosing between young, up-and-coming jockeys and older veterans. Whether it’s putting a rider on a horse or betting on that same runner, weighing the pros and cons of youth versus experience is no easy task.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Canterbury Park’s 2013 stakes schedule features five stakes worth more than $100,000, the most in one season since the track reopened in 1995. The Mystic Lake Derby increases to $200,000, while the Lady Canterbury Stakes and the Northbound Pride Oakswill be returning to $100,000. The newly created $125,000 Mystic Lake Mile and $100,000 Shakopee Juvenile Stakes round out the major stakes.

The renamed Chaucer Cup returns to Canterbury next year in the form of the $50,000 Dark Star Cup, run in honor of local media personality and longtime track supporter Dark Star.

Trainer Mel Stute remained hospitalized Monday after suffering a head injury in a fall at his home Saturday evening.

Stute underwent tests Sunday and was in intensive care Monday morning, according to his son, trainer Gary Stute. He said doctors thought that Mel Stute could be transferred to a private room later Monday.

“He’s still pretty disoriented,” Gary Stute said Monday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Doinhardtimeagain, an improving 2-year-old filly, gave red-hot trainer Jerry Hollendorfer his sixth win of the weekend, and third in a stakes, in the $196,000 Soviet Problem Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday.

Ridden by Martin Garcia, Doinhardtimeagain ($15.80) stalked pacesetter Home Journey on the backstretch and into the turn, swept around her and two other rivals in early stretch, and won the seven-furlong race for California-bred fillies by 2 1/4 lengths in 1:23.93.

“We got enough speed in front of and it went great,” Hollendorfer said.