INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Barry Abrams is going to have to switch from lox and bagels to barramundi and Vegemite. After sending out Unusual Suspect to victory on Saturday in the Grade 1, $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, Abrams said Unusual Suspect would be heading to Australia to race next year, with designs on the Melbourne Cup and what Abrams views as a more favorable environment to become a potential stallion.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Talk about a preview of coming attractions. Last fall at this meet, Lookin At Lucky won the Hollywood Futurity and Blind Luck took the Starlet, the biggest races of the season for 2-year-olds at Hollywood Park. Both went on to be division leaders this year.

The Futurity and the Starlet are next month, but some of the horses hoping to take a step toward those important Grade 1 races will be in action this weekend in seven-furlong prep races.

Turfway Park has trimmed overnight purses for the upcoming four months of racing at the Florence, Ky., track as a means of maintaining the integrity of its traditional stakes schedule.

Turfway ran only one stakes at its 16-day fall meet, canceling several other stakes, including the once-prestigious Kentucky Cup series for the first time since its 1994 inaugural. The decision to trim overnight purses was “prudent, given the circumstances,” said the track’s president, Bob Elliston. “It’s important to have a stakes schedule.”

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A pick six carryover just shy of $100,000 awaits players on Thursday at Hollywood Park, and the fresh money figures to be greater than normal for a single-day carryover, what with three dark days to replenish the bankroll, and plenty of time to pore over the past performances for Thursday’s races.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Garrett Gomez suffered “bad bruising,” but nothing worse, to his ailing right shoulder, according to results from a magnetic resonance imaging test taken last Friday, said Ron Anderson, agent for the star jockey. Gomez still is in enough pain that he will forgo riding at the balance of the Churchill Downs fall meet and will return to action on Nov. 28, Hollywood Derby day at Hollywood Park.

MIAMI – Howie Tesher was a mainstay on the New York circuit for decades before relocating permanently to Calder this spring. And from the looks and sound of things both on and off the racetrack, life in south Florida is really agreeing with the veteran horseman.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The 2010 meeting at Woodbine Racetrack already has been a memorable one for trainer Liz Charalambous, who celebrated her first stakes win when Secret Wish upset the $127,000 Algoma on Sept. 6.

But Charalambous is not through yet and will be looking to add another chapter to her history book when she sends out General Brock to do battle in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Kennedy Road at six furlongs.

General Brock, a Kentucky-bred 4-year-old gelding, will be making his stakes debut in the Kennedy Road.

The Santa Anita Derby has been enriched from $750,000 to $1 million for next year’s running on April 9, part of an enhancement to the purse structure of Santa Anita’s prep races to the Triple Crown, the track announced Tuesday.

The boosting of the Santa Anita Derby is part of a $450,000 stimulus package to Santa Anita’s stakes races for 3-year-olds at the upcoming winter-spring meet, which opens Dec. 26. The track also has boosted the purses of two Santa Anita Derby prep races – the Robert Lewis and the San Felipe – from $150,000 to $250,000.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – A quarter of a century into his training career, Eric Reed is starting to get rolling. After winning a total of just 18 races during a three-year span (1997-99) not too long ago, Reed already has passed the 100-win milestone for 2010 and couldn’t be much happier with how his stable has grown and flourished.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A field of promising maiden 2-year-old fillies will square off over 1 1/16 miles at Woodbine Racetrack in Thursday’s opener, which includes the stakes-placed Sense of Pride.

Sense of Pride never threatened when she debuted on the grass Oct. 3. She was prominent throughout the $252,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes on Oct 30 but flattened out late to finish third.