Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., has moved into the final stretch of its mixed meet and will run five significant stakes before the close of the season Dec. 4. The first of those races is on Sunday, with 11 invited Quarter Horses making up the field for the Grade 1, $200,000 Southwest Juvenile Championship.

The final week of the meet will also showcase a pair of six-figure stakes for Thoroughbreds, the $150,000 Zia Park Derby on Dec. 3 and the $200,000 Distance Championship on Dec. 4. There is also a Distance Championship for Quarter Horses, with the Dec. 4 race worth $150,000.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – If he didn’t laugh about it, trainer Gary Gullo would probably cry. Since the spring, it has become a source of good-natured ribbing from his colleagues. But it could all come to an end Sunday.

When Gullo sends out Zellweger in Sunday’s first-level New York-bred allowance feature at Aqueduct, he will be seeking his first win on turf since July 27, 2002. Since Takeiteasyedye won a $35,000 claimer at Saratoga, Gullo has lost with his last 100 turf starters.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ian Howard will be heading back to Ocala this winter, taking a small string to Classic Mile.

But Howard has some important business in the interim, with Bridgeburner slated to go postward in Sunday’s $150,000 Display at 1 1/16 miles and Quaesitor eyeing a maiden race scheduled for next week.

Bridgeburner is owned by Howard’s 27-year-old son, Chris, who is a member of the stable crew and was with his father when the Florida-bred Bridgeburner was purchased in Ocala this April.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Hollywood Park had its first fall meeting in 1981, right about the time Mike Stidham was starting his training career. Stidham began in Florida but quickly relocated to California, and he remained here for more than a decade before eventually winding up in the East and Midwest, where he has developed into one of the more potent forces in the country.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The improving filly All Star Heart was scratched from the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes on Friday at Hollywood Park, after trainer Ron McAnally was not satisfied with her condition.

"She's not 100 percent, therefore we had to scratch," McAnally said. All Star Heart did not get sick.

"When she came back from galloping [Thursday], she was just not 100 percent," McAnally said. "That's all we know at this time."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Coronation Futurity winner Maritimer will meet open company Sunday at Woodbine in the $150,000 Display Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile test that drew eight other 2-year-olds.

Maritimer notched his first stakes Nov. 6 in the $250,000 Coronation for Canadian-breds. He rallied wide from midpack under Luis Contreras to win the nine-furlong stakes going away, in 1:50.91, which translated into a 79 Beyer Speed Figure.

Trainer Sid Attard said Maritimer put it all together in the Coronation.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – There have been plenty of bangs at Churchill Downs this fall, so it probably isn’t unfair to say the 21-day meet will end Sunday with a whimper. Not that the finale is a bad card – it isn’t.

But compared with all the important racing events that have taken place here since the meet began Oct. 30 – two days of the Breeders’ Cup, two Stars of Tomorrow programs, a terrific renewal of the Clark Handicap, and plenty of other notable races in between – the 11-race Sunday program and its mere four allowance races are regular fare.

The 3-year-old Startin Something will try to make her third attempt against her elders a winning one in the $50,000 Bobby Bricker Memorial at Beulah Park on Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile race is for Ohio-bred fillies and mares.

Trained by Tim Hamm, Startin Something was Ohio's champion 2-year-old filly last season. This year she has faced older fillies and mares at Thistledown in the Classen Memorial April 30, and in her most recent race, which came in an optional claimer Nov. 2.

Elder John tries to make it two straight when he heads a field of eight 2-year-old statebreds in the $50,000 West Virginia Futurity at Charles Town on Saturday.

Deliburnsky goes for his third win in the $75,000 Dave's Friend for 2-year-olds at Laurel on Saturday afternoon.

Trained by Tony Wilson, Deliburnsky has made all his starts at Monmouth Park. He won a maiden event July 25 in front-running style. In his next out, Sept. 3 in the Grade 3 Sapling, Deliburnsky had trouble at the start and was rushed up to contest the pace before giving way in the stretch to finish ninth. In his last race Oct. 29, Deliburnsky won in front-running style again, this time in the $60,000 Jersey Juvenile by six lengths.