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.

Up In Time won two graded stakes for 3-year-old fillies in 2011, a season that ended on a frightening note. She clipped heels and unseated jockey Martin Garcia in the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes at Hollywood Park on Nov. 25, a scare for the partners that own the filly and trainer Simon Callaghan.

“She all but fell,” Callaghan said. “The rider had no chance of staying on.”

Fortunately, Garcia and Up In Time were not injured in the incident. They will be reunited for Monday’s $100,000 Monrovia Stakes over about 6 1/2 furlongs for fillies and mares on the hillside turf course.

The filly Always Here Too earned a slot in the Jan. 21 Silverbulletday Stakes with an allowance race victory Wednesday at Fair Grounds, and if all goes according to plan with the colt Shared Property, trainer Tom Amoss will have 3-year-olds to run in both the Silverbulletday and Lecomte Stakes on Fair Grounds’ first significant multiple open-stakes card of the meeting.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Rumor, a stakes winner at Del Mar in September, makes her first start in nearly four months in Sunday’s $75,000 Kalookan Queen Handicap at Santa Anita.

The race is designed as a prep for the $300,000 Santa Monica Stakes, a Grade 1 over seven furlongs, but trainer Richard Mandella is somewhat reluctant to think that far ahead with Rumor.

“She’s just kind of delicate,” Mandella said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. − The way she reeled off three consecutive victories here last winter and spring, Nicole H had her connections thinking big. But after an illness sidelined her for the summer and most of the fall, Nicole H will have to start over again if she is to realize those lofty expectations.

As a perennial leading trainer in New Mexico, Henry Dominguez has won a high volume of stakes across the state. But one meaningful race he has never been able to lay claim to is the $110,000 Albert Dominguez Memorial, which is named for his brother. That could change on Sunday. Dominguez will send out top contender Brother Louie in the 1 1/16-mile handicap that will be run at Sunland Park.