HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Eibar Coa walked around the Gulfstream Park jockeys room just like old times Thursday, his miraculous recovery from the horrific spill here that had left him temporarily paralyzed last winter now well documented. But Coa’s visit had less to do with greeting old friends than being a proud papa, showing his 19-year-old son, Kieber, the ropes in preparation for accepting his first U.S. mount aboard Primpfedenel in Saturday’s second race.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The list of winners that Bob Baffert has sent out in the CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park looks like a greatest-hits package for the Hall of Fame trainer. Since 1997, Baffert has won the race five times, with Real Quiet, Captain Steve, Point Given, Pioneerofthe Nile, and, two years ago, Lookin At Lucky.

“I’ve never won it with a bum,” Baffert said Thursday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Saturday’s $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park is trainer Doug O’Neill’s last best chance to grab a Grade 1 victory in 2011.

O’Neill is not expected to have leading contenders in the final two Grade 1 races of the year – the Malibu and La Brea stakes at Santa Anita after Christmas – but has two of the 13 runners in the CashCall in Basmati and Handsome Mike.

“I think we’ve got two serious chances in there,” O’Neill said. “I think we can win. I really do.”[bc_video_id:240403:]

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Rule by Night and This Ones for Phil, two of the fastest sprinters around when they are right, will take the bulk of the action in Saturday’s 53rd running of the $65,000 Gravesend Handicap.

The six-furlong Gravesend, won by the likes of Mr. Prospector and Honorable Miss in a bygone era, is race 8 and is the third leg of a late pick four with a $250,000 guarantee.

As a 3-year-old here last fall, Rule by Night won the seven-furlong Groovy overnight stakes in 1:20.67, just .63 of a second off the track record set by Artax in the 1999 Carter Handicap.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. − The much anticipated return of the undefeated Trickmeister will finally happen at Gulfstream on Saturday, when he makes his first start in nearly 16 months in the $60,000 Harlan’s Holiday Stakes.

Run at 1 1/16 miles, the Harlan’s Holiday came up very strong for an overnight stakes, also luring multiple graded stakes winner Duke of Mischief and steadily improving 3-year-old I’m Steppin’ It Up. The eight-horse field includes Trickmeister’s uncoupled stablemate, Boys At Tosconova, although he is not likely to start.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Zeenut, a fast-closing third in her last outing, will take on the boys in Saturday’s allowance feature at Tampa Bay Downs if she can draw into the body of the race from the also-eligibles. Zeenut is part of a well-matched field of 14 turf runners entered in the mile and a sixteenth race. Only 10 will be allowed to start.

Mike Maker nominated such stalwarts as Baryshnikov, Stately Victor, and Twinspired to run Saturday night in the $50,000 Prairie Bayou Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., but none will go. Instead, Maker will send out the uncoupled duo of Becky’s Kitten and William’s Kitten, both of them homebred 4-year-old sons of Kitten’s Joy owned by Ken and Sarah Ramsey.

PHOENIX – When All Saint went on his tear of winning four straight stakes during the 2010-11 Turf Paradise meet on his way to horse of the meet honors, he utilized his speed, going right out to a clear lead each time and playing keep-away. The 5-year-old All Saint returns to defend his title in Saturday’s $35,000 Hank Mills Sr. Handicap, but there’s a major roadblock he didn’t face in any of those four stakes wins last season: significant other speed.

You don’t make racing’s Hall of Fame like trainer Jerry Hollendorfer did this year without the ability to develop horses.

Hollendorfer has a knack of getting the best out of runners, whether it’s an Eclipse winner like Blind Luck last year, a 2-year-old filly like Hollywood Starlet winner Killer Graces, or a 3-year-old filly such as Halo Dolly, who could be the one to beat in Saturday’s $75,000 Pacific Heights at Golden Gate Fields.

Handle figures were down slightly at the Remington Park Thoroughbred meet that ended Saturday night. The meet followed a 2010 season in which the track posted a 48 percent increase in handle on its live races due to an expanded simulcast network.

Remington Park in Oklahoma City raced 67 dates this year, the same as in 2010, which was its first under the ownership of Global Gaming, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation.