OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. hopes the year-end hot streak for his stable is only the beginning of a resurgence.

While he is on par to have his worst statistical season in almost a decade, Dutrow has enjoyed a stellar November, winning 16 races from 31 starters through Sunday. The bulk of his success has come at Aqueduct – his home track – where he has gone 13 for 25 during the first 13 days of the fall meet, which ends Sunday with the final day of racing over the main track.

NEW ORLEANS – In some ways, New Orleans never changes. Tourists strolling Bourbon Street with sweet, potent drinks might be lifted from a scene 20 years ago. Live oaks arch across neighborhood streets, the smell of sweet olive mixing with the under-scent of mold creeping into and seeping out of beautiful old buildings fallen into disrepair – this could be the early 21st century or the mid-20th.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday authorized the establishment of three casinos and a slots parlor in the state by signing legislation that cuts racing into a share of the casino revenues and requires Suffolk Downs to increase its number of live racing dates.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The locals love coming out to Churchill Downs on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and not just to escape from the in-laws. The racing happens to be terrific, too.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Basmati, the runner-up in the $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot in Louisiana on Saturday, will make his next start in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park on Dec. 17, trainer Doug O’Neill said.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – It might be best to wait until after scratch time to begin handicapping Thursday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct.

Though 10 were entered for the traditional Thanksgiving Day feature, the gate could be only half full when the six-furlong stakes is run at 2:42 p.m. Eastern. First post for the nine-race Thanksgiving Day card is 11:25 a.m. with last post at 3:10.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park’s Cushion Track was used for training Monday, one day after rain inundated a section of the track and forced the cancellation of three races.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Bob Black Jack, who once held the six-furlong world record, will make his first start around two turns on turf in Saturday’s $250,000 Citation Handicap.

Bob Black Jack’s career has been plagued by injuries, which have limited the 6-year-old to 12 career starts. A gelding, Bob Black Jack has made only two starts in the last two years, winning the Grade 2 San Carlos Handicap in February 2010 and finishing second in the California Cup Sprint at Santa Anita on Oct. 29. In between, he was sidelined with a suspensory injury.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – My Miss Aurelia, the undefeated winner of the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies at Churchill Downs and the surefire 2-year-old filly champion of 2011, is being shipped from Churchill to the Ocala area for a brief freshening before gearing back up for the classic races in her division next year, it was announced Tuesday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Steve Margolis, whose current base is Churchill Downs, is in the process of relocating to Fair Grounds, where he figures to be a major player at the meeting that begins Thursday.

But Margolis, in absentia, also plans to be keeping an eye on Woodbine this Sunday, with Splendiferous slated to go postward in the $150,000 Display Stakes.

Splendiferous, a Kentucky-bred 2-year-old who is owned by Jake Ballis, has started three times on the turf and would be making his Polytrack debut in the 1 1/16-mile Display.