Brett Creighton literally raised Humble Smarty, an orphan as a foal who on Sunday will be going for his 16th career win when he starts in the $55,000 Lea County at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M.

The 5 1/2-furlong race for 3-year-olds and up also drew Kineticat Yankee, a stakes winner against Quarter Horses at Ruidoso Downs in July, and Jam’n Jackson, who will be seeking his third consecutive win Sunday.

But the horse to beat is Humble Smarty, a 7-year-old gelding who lost his stakes-winning mother, Humble Danzig, at birth.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A 2-year-old filly making the third start of her career is about to make a big splash in a division that could use a little help.

Charm the Maker will be heavily backed Sunday in the $100,000 Sharp Cat Stakes at Hollywood Park, where she meets five rivals in a 1 1/16-mile race that could propel her to favoritism next month in the Grade 1 Hollywood Starlet.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Making his second start of the year, Boys At Tosconova got back in the win column in Friday’s third race at Aqueduct, stalking a slow pace set by Hillswick to the stretch, and edging away late to take an allowance sprint for nonwinners-of-three races lifetime by 2 1/2 lengths.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Not only does Steve Asmussen have the surefire 2-year-old filly champion in My Miss Aurelia, but he also has a 2-year-old colt that stands to make a major impact in his division in the coming months as well.

Asmussen was thrilled with the way Hierro won a seven-furlong maiden race Wednesday at Churchill Downs, drawing off to prevail by 5 1/4 lengths, and the future Hall of Famer agreed the colt would have to rank among his most promising prospects for the classics next spring.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – It’s tempting to label Cool C Note as a synthetic or turf horse, considering how well the 5-year-old has fared over those surfaces lately, but trainer Mike Tomlinson said that wouldn’t be fair.

“He’ll run over broken glass,” said Tomlinson. “Maybe he’s a touch better on Poly or grass, but the way he’s worked over the dirt here at Churchill Downs, I just had to give him a shot over it.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Tu Endie Wei has the superior Beyer Figures, but Kitty’s Got Class has never lost. The two gifted fillies will clash Sunday in the $150,000 Glorious Song Stakes, which could have Sovereign Award implications in the 2-year-old filly division.

Tu Endie Wei took Woodbine by storm when she mounted an impressive wide rally from off a sizzling pace to win her June 25 debut in the My Dear Stakes. For covering five furlongs in 56.93 seconds, she was awarded a fat 91 Beyer.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — There’s an intriguing shipper in town for Sunday’s $150,000 Glorious Song at Woodbine, as Lexington Pearl checked in from England via Amsterdam last Saturday for the seven-furlong race for 2-year-old fillies.

Lexington Pearl races for Pearl Bloodstock Ltd., the nom du course of Sheikh Fahad al Thani, a member of the royal family of Qatar. Lexington Pearl is slated to remain in North America following the Glorious Song with trainer Graham Motion at his base at the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland.

The spring and summer of 2000 was a great time for trainer John Servis. His 3-year-old filly Jostle won the Grade 2 Black-Eyed Susan and two even more prestigious Grade 1 stakes in New York, the Coaching Club American Oaks and the Alabama.

Flash forward to 2011, and Servis has a son of Jostle who is showing signs he may have inherited some of his dam’s talent.

Adirondack King, a daylight winner of back-to-back key races, looks like a solid favorite in the first of two restricted $75,000 stakes for 2-year-olds on Sunday’s card at Parx Racing.

No one hit the pick six at Golden Gate Fields for the seventh consecutive day Thursday as the longshots Country Gold ($92.60), One Mo ($25.60), and Alashir's Storm ($20.60) ensured a carryover of $335,167 for Friday's card.

Thursday's pick six returned $16,317.20 for 5 of 6 correct after bettors chased the six-day carryover of $106,725.

Friday's pick six begins with race 3, scheduled post time 1:47 p.m. Pacific.

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The Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission on Thursday approved a 67-day meet for Prairie Meadows in 2012 that will run from April 20 to Aug. 11 and have a Thursday-to-Sunday race week, a change from recent years when the track raced Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays.

With its $32 million hotel due to open by April 1, Prairie Meadows is hoping that the Thursday-through-Sunday schedule will help bring in fans for the entire weekend and boost its casino revenue, as well as ontrack betting on horse races.