Three stakes winners whose recent form has gone sour will try to regain some confidence against slightly easier competition in Monday’s featured ninth race at Parx Racing.

The 3-year-old Vindy City, winner of the Miss Preakness in May; Miss Blue Tye Dye, who collected six stakes victories against Pennsylvania-breds between August 2008 and October 2009; and Indy’s Alexandra, winner of the $100,000 Three Ring as a 2-year-old nearly three years ago, are among eight fillies and mares set to race 6 1/2 furlongs in a third-level optional $40,000 claimer.

PORTLAND, Ore. – The second richest race in track history and a new low pick four takeout highlight the 64th season at Portland Meadows, which gets under way Monday.

The 75-day meet includes two special cards. On Sunday, Dec. 12, the track will put on its annual Oregon Championship Day, which features a pair of $20,000 races, the Bill and Janet Wineberg for 2-year-olds and 2-year-old fillies. On Saturday, Jan. 29, the $80,000 Portland Meadows Oaks will be run.

Lone Star Park will serve as the official accreditation center for next year’s Super Bowl, with some 10,000 game-day workers to pick up their credentials at the track and be shuttled from it to Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

The Super Bowl is Feb. 6. Lone Star was chosen as the “employee hub” by the National Football League and the North Texas Super Bowl Host Committee.

PHOENIX - The extreme outside post wasn’t a problem for heavy favorite Hezamazing as he had no trouble posting an easy win in Friday’s $25,000 Bienvenidos Stakes, the opening-day feature for the Turf Paradise meet.

Sent off the 7-10 favorite in the mile main-track event, Hezamazing, a 5-year-old gelding owned by Carlyle Rollins and trained by Rich Houghton, showed speed to dog pacesetter Just Jebicah from the start, moved up to challenge for the lead with Sax, gamely ran that rival into defeat, and pulled away to win by three lengths under jockey Wilson Dieguez.

Retired Hall of Fame jockeys Ron Turcotte and Chris McCarron will both be at Remington Park in the coming week for different events tied to the track’s $400,000 Oklahoma Derby next Sunday.

Turcotte, who rode 1973 Triple Crown winner Secretariat, will be at Remington on Oklahoma Derby Day to sign autographs. Turcotte will be joined by recently retired jockey Otto Thorwarth, who played Turcotte in the Disney movie Secretariat that is to be released Friday. Remington plans to give away movie posters while supplies last on Oklahoma Derby Day.

No Other Tone will be going down a new path on Sunday, when she makes her two-turn debut in the $60,000 Chaves County at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. The one-mile race for fillies and mares drew a field of eight, including A.P. Flatter, a winner of back-to-back stakes in July and August.

No Other Tone has been sprinting for a living, and has a 5-for-11 record at one turn. But she will branch out in the Chaves County, and gets pedigree support for the added ground as a daughter of Iowa Derby winner Touch Tone.

The two “wife” horses who created an Internet and media sensation when they finished one-two at Monmouth Park are entered side-by-side in a Sunday race at Monmouth in their first rematch since that memorable Aug. 22 stretch duel.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Between them, Bourbon Bay and Champ Pegasus have accounted for four graded stakes wins in turf marathons in Southern California this year.

When they meet for the first time in Sunday’s $250,000 Clement Hirsch Turf Championship at Hollywood Park, they do so at a time when their careers are headed in different directions. Literally.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Jockey Tyler Baze has ended plans for a comeback in 2010 while he continues to recover from facial injuries suffered at Del Mar in late July, according to his agent, Vic Stauffer.

Baze had hoped to be ready for the start of the Oak Tree at Hollywood Park meeting, which began Thursday, and then postponed his comeback to next weekend. He is now hoping to return for the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting, which begins Dec. 26, Stauffer said.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Tell a Kelly remains the top 2-year-old filly in California, but circumstances change Sunday when she races a longer distance against a tougher field than she crushed in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante at seven furlongs one month ago.

The Grade 1 Oak Leaf Stakes, over 1 1/16 miles at Hollywood Park, is the West Coast prep for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies. Tell a Kelly’s trainer, John Sadler, believes distance is a non-factor.