Thanks to three supplemental nominations, Saturday’s $65,000 Garland of Roses Stakes will go with a five-horse field.

Of the 18 horses nominated, only Cinco de Mayo Mio, absent from the races since May, and Ms Vanenzza, who has not run since September, entered the six-furlong Garland of Roses.

The racing office scrambled to fill the race, getting Isn’t She Grand, a recent starter allowance winner at Parx; Afaaf, last in a Nov. 18 turf race, and C.C.’s Pal, third in the Grade 2 Go for Wand last Friday, to enter.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Ramon “Mike’’ Hernandez officially retired from training Wednesday, passing the mantle of oldest active trainer on the backside of New York Racing Association tracks to Frank “Pancho’’ Martin, who turns 86 on Saturday.

NEW ORLEANS – Okay, so the Keeneland Polytrack played sizzlingly fast many October afternoons during the fall meet this year. Still, what Applauding pulled off Oct. 14 was amazing.

A 2-year-old filly making her career debut, Applauding raced six furlongs in 1:07.76, the fastest three-quarter mile time by .54 of a second recorded during Keeneland’s synthetic-surface era. What does Applauding do for an encore? We will see in race 6 on Friday at Fair Grounds, an entry-level allowance race also open to $50,000 claimers that attracted six entrants.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Carlos Martin on Wednesday was preparing to say goodbye to more than half his stable, as approximately a dozen horses he trains for Flying Zee Stables were about to head to Maryland for that outfit’s dispersal to be hosted by Fasig-Tipton at Timonium.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – An encouraging effort in her first two-turn race looks as though it has set up Sunburn to break through her first allowance condition in Friday’s featured seventh race at Hollywood Park.

After five sprints, Sunburn stretched out around two turns on Nov. 6 at Santa Anita and finished second in a one-mile grass race behind Secret Code, who came out of that race to win again. All that bodes well for Sunburn on Friday, when she returns in the same allowance condition for California-breds, this time going 1 1/16 miles on Hollywood Park’s turf course.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A delay in transporting injured jockey Daniel Vergara to a local hospital after he was injured on Saturday at Hollywood Park has prompted Darrell Haire, the local representative of the Jockeys’ Guild, to look into the matter and present the findings to the California Horse Racing Board at its next monthly meeting.

She’s All In has always been a useful filly as a winner of 9 of 18 starts. But she seems to have stepped up her game in recent times, and on Friday night will be seeking her fourth consecutive win when she defends her title in the $50,000 Ladies on the Lawn at Remington Park.

The one-mile race for Oklahoma-bred fillies and mares was scheduled for turf, but it is being run on the main track after last week’s decision to call off turf racing for the remainder of the meet.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Inglorious, who was the toast of the Canadian racing world after capturing the Woodbine Oaks and Queen’s Plate during a three-week span here this spring, has been on the farm for a couple of months now.

“She’s still having a break in Ocala,” said Josie Carroll, who trains Inglorious for the Donver Stable of Vern and Donna Dubinsky. “She’ll probably come over to me at Palm Meadows after Christmas. We’ll start her up and then decide what direction we’re going in.”

Trainer Roger Attfield, who won a pair of Grade 3 races over the turf, the My Charmer and W.L. McKnight, here at Calder last weekend, will seek to extend his local graded stakes streakwhen he sends out a pair of contenders, Hollinger and Mobilizer, in the Grade 3, $100,000 Tropical Turf on Friday's closing-day program.

Hollinger will attempt to turn the tables on his personal nemesis Stormy Lord, who proved the better of the pair by slim margins earlier this year at Woodbine in both the Ontario Jockey Club and Labeeb stakes.

MIAMI – The 2011 Calder racing season ends one month earlier than usual but will go out with a bang as Friday’s 10-race closing-day program features a pair of Grade 3 stakes on the grass, the $150,000 La Prevoyante and $100,000 Tropical Turf handicaps.

Racing on the south Florida circuit moves across town to Gulfstream Park on Saturday.