LEXINGTON, Ky. – Data Link got a perfectly timed ride from Alex Solis when notching the first stakes victory of his career in posting a 12-1 upset in the 24th running of the Grade 1, $300,000 Maker’s 46 Mile on a seasonal Friday afternoon at Keeneland.

Trained by Shug McGaughey for breeder-owner Stuart Janney III, Data Link was up in the final strides to nail Turallure, the 7-5 favorite, by a neck on the wire. Doubles Partner was just a half-length back in the field of six older turf runners, while Get Stormy, the pacesetter and 9-5 favorite, was another neck back in fourth.

The New York Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association on Friday released a five-point plan to reform medication policies in Thoroughbred racing and is asking the New York State Racing and Wagering Board to begin the process of adopting its proposal as state law.

“While we are hoping for industry-wide support for our proposal, our first obligation is to New York, and we believe the initiative should start here,” NYTHA president Rick Violette Jr. said.

NYTHA proposes the following plan:

Achilles may make his stakes debut in the $200,000 American Turf Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 4 after extending his unbeaten streak to two races in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Thursday.

Trained by Neil Drysdale for Peachtree Stable, Achilles ($3.20) ran a mile on turf in 1:36.12, finishing a length in front of the $80,000 claimer War Politics. Jockey Joe Talamo had Achilles in second on the backstretch. The colt took the lead in early stretch and pulled away to win by a length.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Sand has been added to Santa Anita’s clay-and-sand main track in recent weeks, a procedure welcomed by some horsemen who say the racing surface is slower and safer than it was earlier this year.

The California Horse Racing Board has yet to release fatality statistics for this year’s meet, which began Dec. 26 and ends April 22, so it is not clear whether there have been fewer main-track casualties compared to last season. But some horsemen say adding sand has made the track safer.

The emphasis is on speed, specifically turf speed, Sunday at Lone Star. Three turf sprints are among the day’s nine races, with two at five furlongs, and another, a starter allowance, contested over just a half-mile.

Among the trio of turf dashes is the day’s richest contest, the sixth race for fillies and mares, a $24,000 second-level allowance with a $50,000 claiming condition.

Mahubo returned to Aqueduct and returned to the winner’s circle, earning a hard-fought neck victory over Indy Scent in Friday’s $75,000 Three Coins Up Stakes.

It was another head back to Rustler Hustler in third. Pocket Cowboys and Kingofthebluegrass completed the order of finish.

Mahubo won for the first time since last Nov. 9 when he made his North American debut in a $35,000 claimer at Aqueduct. He raced three times at Gulfstream with two seconds and a third before Friday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Had things gone to plan, trainer Eoin Harty would be preparing Out of Bounds for next month’s Kentucky Derby.

But, as so often happens on the Triple Crown trail, Harty’s Derby dreams were dashed when Out of Bounds sustained a condylar fracture of his left foreleg on March 5, knocking him out of the spring and summer races.

“Believe me, that was a tough one to swallow,” Harty said Friday from Keeneland.

Overnight purses have been raised in several categories for the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting that begins April 26.

Purses for maiden special weight and allowance races have been raised $2,000 from the start of the 2011 spring-summer meeting, while purses for several categories of claiming races have been raised $1,000.

The condition book for the first two weeks of the meeting from April 26 to May 6, describing the races expected to be run, was published earlier this week.

AUBURN, Wash. – Some of the story lines at Emerald Downs on the first Sunday of the meeting:

◗ Royal Moses will make her 2012 debut in the fifth race, a maiden special weight for 3-year-old fillies. It’s the best race on a 10-race program that begins at 2 p.m. Pacific.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The gelding Obviously and the filly Contested will be strongly favored and, of course, challenged by capable rivals in consecutive allowance races at Santa Anita on Sunday. Their trainers are confident the lightly raced horses can produce wins.

Obviously, a 4-year-old Irish-bred gelding trained by Mike Mitchell, makes his second start of the year, and second in the United States, in a second-level optional $62,500 claimer over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course in the seventh race.