NEW ORLEANS – Albarado, Bridgmohan, and Theriot are the best-known names among the Fair Grounds jockey colony. James Graham is Mr. Steady As You Go. Rosie Napravnik and Miguel Mena are comers. And none of them is leading the meet in wins as of Jan. 21. On top of the standings is one Richard Eramia, and pretty much nobody – certainly not Eramia himself – would have expected it when the 2010-2011 season began in late November.

Trainer Nick Zito scratched Dialed In, his top 3-year-old prospect, out of Friday’s featured ninth race less than three hours before post time due to the sloppy racetrack. Zito said he would likely run Dialed In, a son of Mineshaft, back in the Grade 3 Holy Bull a week from Sunday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. − Gleaming and Stephanie Got Even will be seeking their fifth straight wins Sunday, when they step into stakes competition for the first time in the $50,000 American Beauty at Oaklawn Park.

Their task will not be easy. The American Beauty, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares, drew Decelarator, a multiple stakes winner at Oaklawn who in her last start was second in the Grade 2 Raven Run at Keeneland; Bella Diamante, a stakes winner last out at Delta Downs; and Vertical Vision, who faced males in a Remington Park stakes in December.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A few years ago, owner Roddy Valente and trainer Bruce Levine campaigned the talented but fragile New York-bred colt Bustin Stones through a 6-for-6 career capped by a victory in the Grade 1 Carter Handicap in April 2008.

Valente and Levine are back with the New York-bred filly Lots of Stones, who on Sunday seeks her sixth consecutive victory – from seven career starts – in an open company second-level allowance race at Aqueduct. Lots of Stones and Bustin Stones are not related.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Three weeks later and a furlong shorter than planned, top turf mare Eclair de Lune returns Sunday as the class of the field in the $75,000 Megahertz Stakes at Santa Anita.

A Grade 1 winner last summer for owner Richard Duchossois and trainer Ron McAnally, Eclair de Lune was scheduled to return Jan. 1. But wet weather interrupted her training from Dec. 9 to Dec. 30, and McAnally scratched her from the Grade 2 Robert J. Frankel at 1 1/8 miles.

Texas Tempest might get an ideal pace setup Sunday when she makes her stakes debut in the $50,000 El Paso Times at Sunland Park. And that’s not all she has going for her in the 6 1/2-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies. Texas Tempest also is the best bred runner in the field as a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Purge.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Although the $60,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint Handicap is officially the feature race on Sunday’s program, it is the undercard that should draw the most attention, with a pair of attractive allowance races featuring a number of once-prominent horses on the docket.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. − Trainer Wesley Ward is hoping to get an invitation to the $1 million Al Quoz Sprint on Dubai World Cup day for his turf sprint specialist Great Attack. Sunday’s $60,000 Gulfstream Park Turf Sprint could be a means to that end.

Great Attack and Stradivinsky are the two major players among a field of seven entered in the Turf Sprint, a five-furlong race, but only six are expected to start.

Live racing was canceled at Aqueduct Friday because track officials feared the effects of an overnight storm might cause damage to the inner track. It was the third weather-related cancellation of the winter meet.

Aqueduct and Belmont Park will be open for simulcasting.

Tapizar demolished four rivals Jan. 15 in the Sham, earning a 97 Beyer while propelled by the bias. Making his first start since Nov. 27, the Steve Asmussen trainee confirmed his status as one of the elite 3-year-olds in California even while racing greenly off the turn. Tapizar will remain at Santa Anita and aim for the Santa Anita Derby on April 9.