AUBURN, Wash. − Jockey Leonel Camacho-Flores, whose rapid development was one of the top storylines at Emerald Downs in 2011, will test the waters in Northern California this winter.

A 27-year-old native of Zacatecas, Mexico, Camacho-Flores will head to Golden Gate Fields, where his mounts will be booked by Vito Lucarelli, the agent for Leslie Mawing, Emerald’s leading rider.

Camacho-Flores began the week with 42 victories, good for eighth in the standings. He won the John and Kitty Fletcher Stakes aboard E Z Kitty last Sunday, his first Emerald Downs stakes win.

The trainer-jockey team of Morris Nicks and Richard Eramia have dominated the standings this meet at Louisiana Downs, and when the season ends Sunday both will have achieved significant career firsts. Nicks, the 64-year-old horseman who opened a public stable in 1967, will pick up his first-ever training title. Eramia, a five-time champion jockey in his native Uruguay, will earn his first North American title, a feat the 32-year-old has been striving for since 2005.

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ELMONT, N.Y. – In Sunday’s $100,000 John Hettinger Stakes at Belmont Park, the 3-year-old filly Hessonite will be taking on older fillies and mares going a distance she has yet to try on a turf course that figures to have been softened significantly by Mother Nature.

AUBURN, Wash. – Emerald Downs will turn the final page on its 82-day meeting Sunday when it presents an 11-race card, highlighted by the $65,000 Gottstein Futurity, the Northwest’s traditional championship for 2-year-olds. Only five horses were entered in the Gottstein, and two of the leading contenders are fillies.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Closing day of Arlington Park’s 2011 meeting is Sunday. The season is not completely going out with a whimper, but with no stakes closing weekend and a modest second-level allowance race headlining the Sunday card, there’s no real bang, either.

MIAMI – Friday was decision day for owner Shivananda Parboo and his father, trainer Bisnath Parboo, regarding the upcoming itineraries of stable stars Giant Ryan and Trinniberg. They finally made plans after both horses had finished cooling out about two hours after each worked a half-mile over a fast Calder strip.

“Trinniberg will ship to New York on Sunday and likely run in the Champagne,” the younger Parboo confirmed. “Giant Ryan will stay here and skip the Vosburgh, which was our original intention although he’s still on target to run in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Happy Clapper, a long-winded 4-year-old filly trained by Michael Doyle, could notch her first stakes victory here Sunday in the $100,000 Flaming Page, a 1 1/2-mile overnight turf stakes for fillies and mares.

But to do so Happy Clapper will have to get past a triple threat from the barn of trainer Roger Attfield, who has Honimiere, Oregon Lady, and Thislilsoulofmine in the five-horse field.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Television images of the upcoming Santa Anita Autumn meeting will have a wider distribution through the Internet, satisfying a demand issued by the California Horse Racing Board last month, the government body announced on Thursday.

In August, racing board officials approved Santa Anita’s application for an autumn meeting, from Friday through Nov. 6, contingent on wider exposure of the track’s television pictures from the HRTV network.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Divisional honors will be on the line in the two major stakes races that close out the 2011 Hastings meet next Sunday. Crew Leader would likely get the nod over St. Liams Halo as the top older horse with a win in the $100,000 Premiers. Emerald Downs-based Class Included would certainly be named the top 3-year-old filly if she beats older fillies and mares in the Grade 3, $100,000 Ballerina.

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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A showdown between Woodbine’s two leading 3-year-old fillies, Anne’s Beauty and Inglorious, highlights Sunday’s $250,000 Selene Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile route with Grade 3 status.