An indecent assault charge against trainer Juan Carlos Guerrero has been dropped, but it is unclear whether Parx Racing, the suburban Philadelphia track at which he was the leading trainer in 2011, will rescind a 10-year ejection handed down as a result of the charges being brought.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – The well traveled All Due Respect will be heavily favored to defend her title when she returns to Gulfstream Park for Sunday’s $60,000 Ocala Stakes. The one-mile stakes is restricted to Florida-bred fillies and mares but has attracted a graded stakes-quality field.

ARCADIA, Calif. – The date of the 2012 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint did not move from November to January, even if the outstanding lineup Sunday in the Grade 3 Daytona Stakes at Santa Anita suggests otherwise.

Regally Ready, Mr Gruff, and Caracortado sprint 6 1/2 furlongs on the Santa Anita downhill turf course in a winter preview of the BC Turf Sprint scheduled for the same course the weekend of Nov. 2-3.

“It’s the three best turf sprinters in the country,” trainer Mike Machowsky said, taking the liberty of including Caracortado on the list.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Six days after having to pull up an eighth of a mile into his last scheduled work because of an accident on the racetrack, Mucho Macho Man returned to breeze an easy five furlongs in 1:03.21 shortly after dawn on Friday.

With exercise rider Nick Petro Jr. aboard, Mucho Macho Man posted fractions of 25.96 and 37.98 seconds for the opening quarter-mile and three-eighths before galloping out six furlongs in 1:18.22. Mucho Macho Man, who finished third in the 2011 Kentucky Derby, will make his 2012 debut on Jan. 28 in the Florida Sunshine Millions Classic.

Fovee finished last of 10 in the $750,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos, the victim of a bumping incident at the start.

“She got hammered,” trainer Juan Aleman said. “There was no chance of running. She got a little bump on a hock, but nothing major.”

Sunland Park’s series for older horses begins Sunday, with multiple stakes winners Red Lead, Vamoose, and Quiet Again meeting in the $50,000 Winsham Lad. The race is the first of three divisional offerings that also include the $50,000 Curribot on Feb. 12 and the $100,000 Sunland Park Handicap on April 15.

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HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Saturday’s Gulfstream Park card will feature a pair of interesting allowance races topped by the seventh event, a one-mile entry-level optional claimer for 3-year-olds matching the undefeated duo of Discreet Dancer and One Sock Down.

Discreet Dancer was a sensational winner of his debut here on opening day, cruising to an easy 9 3/4-length victory and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 98 in the process. That number was downgraded two points from the original Beyer Figure of 100 posted immediately after the race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Jackson Bend, who finished third as the 5-2 favorite in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint, and defending champion Soaring Empire are expected to head a field of six to eight older horses lining up for next Saturday’s Grade 3 Hal’s Hope at Gulfstream Park. Among the others who could compete in the one-mile Hal’s Hope are Bold Warrior, Will’s Wildcat, Anak Nakal, Cool Blue Red Hot, Manicero, and Decisive Moment according to the track's racing secretary, Dan Bork.

The time has come for Charlie Smith to hit the road again, to trek across Louisiana from tiny Haughton to New Orleans. At the terminus of Smith’s trip waits String King, the 4-year-old gelding who has rewarded Smith for several decades of dabbling in the Thoroughbred business. Smith owns a body shop in Haughton, but on the side trains a few horses at the River Point Equestrian and Training Center on the Red Chute Bayou not far from Louisiana Downs. String King, whom Smith bred and owns, is the first horse to win with Smith’s name actually down as trainer.