INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Hollywood Park will pay a retroactive purse increase of approximately 7 percent to owners whose horses earned prize money from April 23 to June 26 as a result of better-than-expected business during the spring-summer meeting, track president Jack Leibau said Friday.

Liebau projects that Hollywood Park will end the meeting Sunday with an average all-sources handle down approximately 3 percent over the corresponding meeting in 2010. From Southern California sources, Liebau said ontrack and inter-track wagering was down only 1 percent.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – The starting gates are getting ready to spring open again at Canterbury Park. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, along with leaders of the state House and Senate, announced on Thursday evening the framework of a budget deal that would end the 15-day shutdown of state government, which includes the Minnesota Racing Commission.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Rob VanOverschot was pleased with the way Don’twaitforme ran and also how he came out of his comeback race last Sunday. It was a pretty impressive performance.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Love That Dance is the one to beat in the $65,000 Spruce Fir Handicap, and she was assigned the weight to prove it.

Love That Dance will carry 125 pounds, the highest assignment of her career, on Sunday in the one-mile, 70 yards stakes for New Jersey-bred fillies and mares at Monmouth Park. Love That Dance spots each of her seven rivals between eight and 14 pounds, making this a true handicap.

Hippolytus was sent off at odds of 61-1 in Woodbine’s Queen’s Plate, but finished second after stalking the pace and briefly looking like a winner when moving to the lead in midstretch.

In the absence of Inglorious, the filly who ran him down in the Queen’s Plate, Hippolytus is the morning-line favorite for Sunday’s $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie.

The Prince of Wales, run over 1 3/16 miles on Fort Erie’s dirt surface, is the second leg of the Triple Crown for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Dene Court, who had a fast first-out victory, should be strongly backed Sunday at Woodbine in the $150,000 Shady Well Stakes, a 5 1/2-furlong dash for Ontario-bred 2-year-old fillies.

The Mark Casse-trained Dene Court was all business in a June 25 maiden special. She went right to the lead and was pressed through a quick pace before drawing clear in 57.54, which translated into a 79 Beyer Figure.

Dene Court was a $90,000 yearling purchase from a local sale by owner Eugene Melnyk.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – St Liams Halo will be a heavy favorite to win his fifth race in a row when he runs in the $50,000 S. W. Randall Plate at Hastings Sunday. The 1 1/16-mile feature for 3-year-olds and up drew five horses and goes as race 3 on the eight-race card which begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill Downs officials announced Friday a $2.12 million stakes schedule for its fall meet, which runs 21 days from Oct. 30–Nov. 27 and is highlighted by a record eighth hosting of the Breeders’ Cup World Championships.

Aside from the shuffling of the dates of a few stakes, the 2011 fall schedule largely replicates last year’s schedule, when Churchill Downs also hosted the Breeders’ Cup. There was only one purse adjustment: a $25,000 addition to the Grade 2 Falls City Handicap on Nov. 24. The Falls City will now carry a value of $175,000-addded.

INGLEWOOD, Calif.- Acclamation will skip Sunday’s $100,000 Sunset Handicap in favor of the $300,000 Eddie Read Stakes at Del Mar next Saturday, owner Bud Johnston said over the weekend.

The absence of Acclamation leaves the Grade 3 Sunset Handicap with a field of seven. Atticus Jack, a 12-1 shot on the morning-line, was scratched on Sunday morning. The Grade 3 Sunset is run over 1 1/2 miles on turf and is the closing-day feature of the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting.

Forest Mouse and Wally Van headline a rematch of the top three finishers from the Inaugural Stakes as a field of nine 3-year-olds will go 1 1/16 miles in the $40,000 Colorado Derby on Sunday at Arapahoe Park.

Forest Mouse finished first by a length in the Inaugural Stakes but was disqualified for coming out on Wally Van entering the stretch and had the win taken away in that six-furlong race on May 29. The pair should vie for the role of favorite in the Colorado Derby.