LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Barring some sort of unprecedented coup in the Breeders’ Cup, Julien Leparoux won’t repeat as the Eclipse champion jockey. The 27-year-old Frenchman was honored last year with that ultimate tribute, but a number of factors have conspired against him in keeping the 2010 Eclipse from being in close reach.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Cold weather was the big story Friday morning at Churchill Downs with temperatures in the low 40s when the track opened and perhaps a few degrees lower by the time the sun dawned.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Taking a page from the playbook of other jurisdictions, the New York Racing Association on Sunday will treat its fans to an entire card of races for 2-year-olds, including four overnight stakes, on closing day at Belmont Park.

Any race that runs with eight or more betting interests will trigger a $10,000 purse increase. Seven of the nine races drew eight or more betting interests. Following Sunday’s card, racing on this circuit moves to Aqueduct beginning Friday.

Glory Be Mine’s bid to win her seventh straight race will be one of the focal points of the $2 million New Mexico Cup at Zia Park on Sunday. The program is comprised of 11 stakes, with seven for Thoroughbreds and four for Quarter Horses. All of the races are for horses bred in New Mexico, and with its purse structure, the restricted series is the richest card of its kind in North America.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A leaderless California female turf division seeks clarity Sunday at Hollywood Park, closing day of the Oak Tree meet. Racing continues Thursday night, the opening program of the traditional autumn race meet at Hollywood.

Eight fillies and mares entered the Grade 2 Las Palmas Handicap, a mile grass race won last year by Tuscan Evening. She won eight graded stakes, including six straight, before her tragic death from a heart attack in August.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Zenyatta galloped approximately 1 1/2 miles on the main track at Hollywood Park on Friday, continuing a week-long theme of exercising with enthusiasm under rider Steve Willard.

Unbeaten in 19 starts and the favorite for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6, Zenyatta was scheduled to have her final workout at Hollywood Park on Saturday. She will be flown to Churchill Downs on Tuesday.

As Zenyatta walked off the track following Friday’s gallop, Willard emphasized how impressed he has been with her recent activity.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario − Woodbourne will take another shot at becoming a stakes winner when he returns in Sunday’s $100,000 Labeeb at a mile on turf at Woodbine.

Since being claimed for $50,000 in July, Woodbourne has started in three stakes races, placing twice, including a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile. He also was second to Rahy’s Attorney in the With Approval at 1 1/8 miles.

But Woodbourne flopped last time out in the Grade 1 Nearctic on Oct. 16, finishing 11th of 12, beaten 10 3/4 lengths, after stalking the pace over six furlongs of “good” turf.

The lightly raced Dubai Dancer, an impressive winner of her last two starts, and the frequently raced filly C C’s Pal, who has picked up second or third money in four stakes during her 14-race career, look like the prime contenders in Sunday’s $70,000 Witches Brew Stakes at Monmouth Park.

The mile-and-70-yard stakes, restricted to 3-year-old fillies, drew a field of six and goes as race 9 on a 10-race card.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Indian Apple Is and La Rocca will both return from a layoff Sunday at Woodbine in the six-furlong, $150,000 Ontario Fashion Stakes, with the longer Bessarabian Stakes in mind.

Indian Apple Is has won 2 of 5 outings this year, including the seven-furlong Sweet Briar Too Stakes July 1.

Indian Apple Is was entered in the restricted Belle Geste Stakes Oct. 2, but trainer Bob Tiller said owner Frank DiGiulio Jr. wasn’t comfortable with running her over a turf course labeled good that day, so he scratched her.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Santa Anita will use sand from a Southern California quarry on its new conventional main track surface that is being installed this fall, track president George Haines said on Thursday.

The surface is scheduled to be installed in November, and the project will be completed in time for horses to begin training on the surface on Dec. 6, he said. The track’s winter-spring meeting begins on Dec. 26.