Zenyatta galloped 1 1/2 miles on Hollywood Park’s main track on Thursday, two days before her final workout in preparation for the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 6.

Zenyatta began her gallop near the head of the stretch and did a complete circuit before pulling up on the backstretch. Ridden by exercise rider Steve Willard, the unbeaten 6-year-old Zenyatta showed enthusiasm throughout the exercise.

“She’s in the bridle,” trainer John Shirreffs said. “I’d have to say she’s stepped it up a notch. She’s a little more intense.”

Stolis Winner will attempt to become Quarter Horse racing's all-time leading earner when he runs in Saturday night's $25,000 B.F. Phillips Jr. Handicap at Lone Star Park. He is the 126-pound highweight in the 400-yard race, which is restricted to horses bred in Texas.

Stolis Winner will have to win the first-place check of $13,750 to surpass Refrigerator's all-time earnings mark of $2,126,309. Stolis Winner, a past World Champion, has earned $2,114,731.

Delta has a one-mile allowance for 2-year-olds on its card Saturday night, which could produce starters for the Grade 3, $1 million Jackpot on Nov. 20. The field of 10 includes Fort Hood, winner of the $50,000 Stardust at Louisiana Downs in July, and Category Killer, a 15-length maiden winner last out at Hoosier Park for trainer Tom Amoss.

Kentucky Oaks alumna Bella Diamante will make her first start since that Grade 1 classic on April 30 in Saturday night's featured eighth race at Remington Park in Oklahoma City.

The $35,000 optional claiming sprint has second-level allowance conditions, and with the right kind of effort Bella Diamante will return to stakes action next month at Delta Downs, said her trainer, Allen Milligan.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Points of Grace concluded a championship campaign here last season with a half-length victory in the $100,000 River Memories over a mile on turf. And while a second straight Sovereign Award in the filly/mare turf category would seem to be beyond her reach, Points of Grace should be a going concern in the River Memories.

Fort Erie racetrack closed its doors for the 2010 season on Tuesday after a 78-day meet that began May 1. The average daily handle from all sources for the 2010 Fort Erie season was $633,100, compared with $721,221 last year, a 12 percent drop. Ontrack wagering on Fort Erie's races increased fractionally, according to the track.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Every fall for 20 years, the one-day California Cup program was among the well-attended highlights of the Oak Tree race meet at Santa Anita.

Times have changed. The California Cup will be held for the 21st time Saturday, and for the first time it will be run somewhere other than Santa Anita.

Oak Tree and the seven-stakes Cal Cup program moved this fall to Hollywood Park, where Cal Cup attendance Saturday is expected to fall short of the 17,885 at the Cal Cup in 2009 at Santa Anita.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – At 12:05 p.m. Thursday – a mere 3,291 days after legislation passed allowing casinos to be built at New York racetracks – the New York Racing Association’ chairman, Steven Duncker, stood in a corner of the first floor of Aqueduct, wearing a hard hat and safety goggles and holding a mallet.

A minute later, Duncker, along with politicians, union workers, and officials from the Malaysian-based company Genting New York, smashed individual square blocks of concrete in a ceremonial groundbreaking of a casino many felt would never be built.

It has been a while since a new face showed up in Chicago from out of state, his connections trying to take advantage of the horse’s Illinois-bred status, but there is just such an entrant in the Bucks Boy Handicap, the last of 10 races and the finale of a six statebred-restricted stakes sequence Saturday at Hawthorne.