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.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – It stands to reason that a trainer who made his reputation by getting young horses primed for their first starts should be similarly adept with a young horse returning from a layoff. Wesley Ward, as phenomenal as he is with 2-year-old first-time starters, will put that hypothesis to a tangible test Sunday when sending out Gypsy Robin off a seven-month layoff in the Grade 2, $150,000 Beaumont Stakes at Keeneland.

Trainers, like horseplayers, will sometimes stare at a race’s odds in surprise, not knowing what to make of how the public is betting the race.

Defending Lone Star Park training champion Bret Calhoun had that experience when Lone Star Park opened Thursday night. He said he was surprised as his two horses loaded in the gate for Thursday’s opening-race Premiere Stakes, seeing Gold Element and Red Coyote – runners he deemed as major win threats – as somewhat overlooked 4-1 shots apiece.

“I’m thinking somebody knows something I don’t know,” he said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Sunday’s feature at Hastings is the $50,000 George Royal for 3-year-olds and up, a great betting race with 10 well-matched horses going six furlongs. The seventh race, a six-furlong allowance race for 3-year-old fillies that drew six horses, isn’t nearly as attractive from a wagering prospective, but the presence of Claresmiezie makes it just as compelling.

Vamoose and Forest Mouse appear to give their trainer, Henry Dominguez, a strong hand in Sunday’s $100,000 Sunland Park Handicap. The 1 1/18-mile race is the final major Thoroughbred stakes of the meet, which will wrap up on Tuesday.

Vamoose won the local prep, the $50,000 Curribot, by more than three lengths in his last start Feb. 12. Forest Mouse, meanwhile, was second in that same1 1/16-mile race at Sunland.

“I feel strongly about both of them,” said Dominguez. “I expect big efforts from both of them.”

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Tony Dutrow has always thought Tech Fall had the ingredients to be a good horse.

“So far, I’m wrong,” Dutrow said.

Perhaps not. Tech Fall came off a nine-month layoff to win a second-level allowance race last month over a muddy and laboring Aqueduct inner track. Sunday, he tries to take a step forward and become a stakes winner when he meets six opponents in the $75,000 Action Stakes at 1 1/8 miles over Aqueduct’s main track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ian Black admitted to being pleasantly surprised when Fifty Proof was named Canada’s champion older male at the 2011 Sovereign Awards ceremony.

“I thought it was a very open category,” said Black, whose horse was a finalist along with Don Cavallo and James Street. “All three finalists had won one stake. But, I was worried that we’d been gone so long and people tend to forget.”