Baltimore Belle, a proven stakes winner in her native Maryland but never before asked to run on a main track out of state, faces Orbiston Parva, whose fondness for the surface at Parx Racing may outweigh her lack of stakes experience, in Tuesday’s $75,000 Sleigh Ride at Parx.

Based at Laurel Park with trainer Mike Trombetta, Baltimore Belle was a two-time stakes winner on dirt in 2001, taking the off-the-turf Dahlia going 1 1/16 miles at Pimlico in late April and the restricted Geisha going a one-turn mile at Laurel last time out on Dec. 10.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Bruce Brown is targeting next month’s Grade 3 Toboggan Stakes for his speedy New York-bred sprinter Dr Disco. While there are two overnight stakes on Jan. 8 for which Dr Disco would be eligible, Brown found what he hopes is a better spot in a $66,000 open-company third-level allowance race that serves as Monday’s feature at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Majestic City, the winner of two sprint stakes last summer, is being rested for 45 days and is off the Triple Crown trail.

Trained by Peter Miller, Majestic City has won 3 of 7 starts and $245,570 for owner Jeff Bloom. Majestic City was 13th in the CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park on Dec. 17, his most recent start. Miller said that Majestic City will be sent to a farm in Hemet, Calif., for a rest.

“He’s just pooped,” Miller said. “We’re going to let him be a horse for 45 days. We’ll bring him back for a late spring and summer campaign.”

ARCADIA, Calif. – With 13 wins in 23 starts, nearly $900,000 in earnings, and a third-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in 2010, Unzip Me has been effective just about anywhere, but she has been particularly deadly on Santa Anita’s hillside turf course, where she has won 6 times in 9 starts.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Trainers Mike Chambers and Darrell Vienna have been fined $750 after they failed to report horses they started at Hollywood Park in December as geldings at the proper time.

The fines come at a time when the California Horse Racing Board is considering stronger penalties for such infractions.

Stalk ‘n roll. That’s the approach Isn’t He Clever took Friday in the $100,000 Riley Allison Futurity at Sunland Park.

Isn’t He Clever tracked the early leaders then drew out by 11 3/4 lengths in the Riley Allison Futurity, which served as a first look at some of the locals who could advance to next spring’s Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Lady of Shamrock won her stakes debut in Friday’s $81,000 Blue Norther Stakes, displaying a stylish turn of foot in the final furlong of the one-mile turf race for 2-year-old fillies.

The victory was the first stakes win for owner Kosta Hronis of Delano, Calif., and it came two years after he formed a stable.

Ridden by Garrett Gomez, Lady of Shamrock ($5.60) won by 2 3/4 lengths over Batalha, finishing in 1:34.24. Byrama, a European import, finished a troubled third. She broke slowly and was in traffic in the stretch.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. -  The Quarter Horse race so vehemently opposed by Florida horsemen scheduled for Saturday at Gulfstream Park was cancelled late Friday evening after the Florida Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association and Gulfstream Park officials agreed on a tentative purse agreement.

There was a small fire in the office at trainer Pat Kelly’s Belmont Park barn Thursday afternoon.

According to New York Racing Association officials, the fire occurred at around 1 p.m., but the office’s sprinkler system was able to extinguish it. While there was some damage to the office, no horses or humans were hurt. Further, none of the horses had to be evacuated, according to NYRA officials.

The Elmont Fire Department was called to the scene and is investigating to find out the cause of the fire.

Three leading contenders for major 3-year-old stakes in coming months worked Friday.

Creative Cause, winner of the Grade 1 Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita in October and third in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs in November, breezed three furlongs in 37 seconds at Hollywood Park. Trained by Mike Harrington, the workout was Creative Cause’s first official exercise since returning to training in early December.

Creative Cause is expected to make his 3-year-old debut in the $150,000 San Vicente Stakes over seven furlongs Feb. 19.