INGLEWOOD, Calif. – For most of the owners and trainer chasing Saturday’s $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park, the focus of the race is the lucrative prize. A win or placing in the Grade 1 race would greatly help the chances of gaining a berth in the Kentucky Derby in May, a field determined by graded stakes earnings.

Joinem, a 3-year-old Johar gelding, won his career debut last June at Churchill Downs by more than 10 lengths, and he has finished first or second in all four of his starts to date. Joinem was one of 10 horses entered in the featured eighth race Thursday at Fair Grounds, and he looks like a horse with a decent future, but forgive trainer David Carroll for being far more wrapped up in the present.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The final week of the Hollywood Park fall meeting begins Thursday with a pick-six carryover of $106,356.

The pick six covers the third through eighth races on an eight-race program that begins at 12:30 p.m. The meeting ends Sunday. The Santa Anita winter-spring meeting begins Dec. 26.

But first, bettors will be chasing pick-six races on Thursday that feature fields of six, eight, seven, eight, eight, and 11.

ALBANY, Calif. – Trainer Billy Morey will be paying close attention to one of his clients, Don Brauer, from now on.

Brauer, a part owner in Sir Al, who has won more than $100,000 since joining Morey’s barn 16 months ago, has tipped Morey about several horses.

Morey has purchased two: Hudson Landing, winner of last spring’s Alcatraz Stakes, and Positive Response, who scored an impressive wire-to-wire victory in Saturday’s Gold Rush Stakes.

“He shoots horses at me from time to time,” said Morey. “These are the only two we both really liked.”

Dan Fick, who has held high-ranking positions with The Jockey Club and the American Quarter Horse Association, has been hired as director of racing and racing secretary for Remington Park, the track’s president, Scott Wells, said on Tuesday.

Fick replaces Fred Hutton, who had been with Remington for the past decade. Fick is to assume his new position on Jan. 1.

“I think Dan Fick will bring leadership, vision, and a breadth of experience in the industry, which is a natural fit for Remington Park,” said Wells.

“Dan has an extraordinary background.”

Parx Racing canceled its 10-race Tuesday program because of track conditions and wind-chill conditions, according to Sal Sinatra, racing secretary at the Bensalem, Pa., track.

“The track was wet yesterday and froze up overnight,” Sinatra said. “We actually might’ve been okay by the first race (12:25 p.m. Eastern), but another factor was that the wind chill is in the single digits. We just didn’t want to take any chances, so we called off the races early enough to give everybody the notice they need.”
 

An expanded simulcast network helped Remington Park in Oklahoma City experience a 48-percent increase in handle on its live races during its 67-night meet that ended Saturday. The season was the first Thoroughbred meet under the ownership of Global Gaming, a Chickasaw Nation subsidiary that last year purchased the facility for $80 million from MI Developments.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Peppi Knows, who shipped in to upset the Whirlaway Stakes here last winter for Penn National-based trainer Tim Kreiser, returns to the scene of his most lucrative payday in Wednesday’s $60,000 Cosmic Bob overnight stakes at a mile and 70 yards.

Peppi Knows was second in last year’s Remsen at better than 20-1, before posting a mild upset in the Whirlaway, a race in which heavily favored Eightyfiveinafifty bolted and lost his rider in the early stages.

Vincent Timphony, the former trainer who won the first Breeders’ Cup Classic with Wild Again in 1984, died on Monday, his former wife, Scarlet, said.

Timphony was 76. He was removed from life support at Arcadia Methodist Hospital, adjacent to Santa Anita, on Saturday after suffering a series of strokes, Scarlet Timphony said.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Vincent Timphony had his last starter in 2002. He had runners who placed in stakes at Fairplex Park and Turf Paradise in the late 1990s.

The signal from Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla., has been unavailable on Twinspires.com, the largest account-wagering operation in the United States, since the track opened its meet on Saturday because of a contractual dispute between the two parties, officials said on Monday.