HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Kate’s Main Man, a $35,000 claim at Oaklawn Park in 2010 who pushed past $500,000 in earnings last season, makes his return Sunday in the featured eighth race. The optional $50,000 claiming race at a mile drew seven older horses, including Omniscient, the probable favorite off a close fourth in the $125,000 Delta Downs Mile. Kate’s Main Man, who was named the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association’s claimer of the year for 2010, races for Randy Patterson and is trained by Randy Morse.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Jimmy Iselin was 26 years old when the New York Jets, then partly-owned by his father, Phil, upset the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III. Iselin, like all Jets fans, is still waiting for the Jets next Super Bowl appearance.

Sunday, approximately three hours before the New York Giants and New England Patriots tee it up in Super Bowl XLVI, Iselin will be wearing his father’s Super Bowl ring when he saddles the 7-year-old mare Still Waiting in a first-level New York-bred allowance race that serves as Aqueduct’s feature on a nine-race program.

MIAMI – Calder Race Course will present 58 stakes races worth over $6.6 million in purses during its 2012 season, which begins on April 9.

The rich Summit of Speed on July  7 will again highlight the schedule, offering six stakes worth $1.3 million highlighted by the Grade 1 Princess Rooney Handicap and Grade 2 Smile Sprint Handicap. The Summit also includes the Grade  3 Azalea and Carry Back stakes for 3-year-olds. The purses of both the Princess Rooney and Smile have been raised to $400,000 this summer, up $50,000 apiece from a year ago.

Federal prosecutors in Florida have charged the former superintendent of Calder Race Course in Miami with fraud for his alleged participation in a kickback scheme that could have cost the track as much as $4.5 million over a decade, according to an indictment released Thursday by the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida.

The 77th running of the Longacres Mile is, as usual, the highlight of the 2012 Emerald Downs stakes schedule. The 81-day meet at the Seattle-area track begins April 13 and runs through Sept. 23.

The Grade 3, $200,000 Longacres Mile will be run Sunday, Aug. 19, on a card with the $65,000 Emerald Distaff. Awesome Gem came in from California to win the Mile last year.

 OZONE PARK, N.Y. - King and Crusader, who won two races over Aqueduct's inner track in four days including the Jimmy Winkfield Stakes, could make his next start in the Grade 3, $400,000 Gotham Stakes on March 3, trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said Thursday.

King and Crusader, a son of Lion Heart, won a restricted optional claimer on Jan. 13 going a two-turn mile and then came on Jan. 16 to take the six-furlong Jimmy Winkfield.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Inherit the Gold, whose 104 Beyer Speed Figure earned in the Haynesfield Stakes on Jan. 22 at Aqueduct is the highest recorded in a two-turn race thus far in 2012, is targeting the $75,000 Mr. G.J.G. Stakes on Feb. 12, trainer Jim Hooper said.

Inherit the Gold won the Haynesfield by 6 1/4 lengths, running 1 1/16 miles 1:43.05 over the inner track.

Hooper was initially thinking of waiting for the $75,000 Kings Point on March 3 or the $150,000 Excelsior on March 17.

Algorithms, a runaway winner of the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes here Sunday, had his Beyer Speed Figure for the race elevated from a 98 to 105. That’s the highest number earned by any 3-year-old to this point of the season.

Andrew Beyer of Beyer Associates said the change was made due to what he believes is a problem with the timing system.

Trainer Graham Motion also is weighing his options for the return of Toby’s Corner who has not started since upsetting Uncle Mo 10 months ago in the Grade 1 Wood Memorial. Toby’s Corner has been training steadily for his return since arriving along with stablemate Animal Kingdom at Palm Meadows last month.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Jockey Ryan Curatolo is appealing a decision by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board that denies him the ability to ride with a three-pound weight allowance for his contract-holder, Flying Zee Stable.