INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Jockey Rafael Bejarano lost his lead in the jockey standings at the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting last weekend when Joel Rosario won seven races on Saturday and Sunday to take a two-race lead.

The race between the two friendly rivals for the riding title will last until the final day of the meeting, July 18. Bejarano can almost bank on taking back one win when Rail Trip starts as a strong favorite in Saturday’s $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With the unofficial start to the second half of the season less than a month away, many of the locally-based 3-year-olds began picking up their training over the weekend in preparation for races such as the Haskell Invitational and Jim Dandy.

On Sunday, about 3 1/2-hours apart, Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver and Belmont Stakes winner Drosselmeyer – both owned by WinStar Farm – put in workouts over the main track. Also on Sunday, up-and-coming 3-year-olds Trappe Shot and Friend or Foe breezed.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Hollywood Park president Jack Liebau said the cancellation of Thursday’s live program because of insufficient entries will not lead to changes in the racing schedule for the final two weeks of the spring-summer meeting, which ends July 18.

Liebau said the track will go forward with an abbreviated three-day racing schedule this week, from Friday through Sunday, and will offer the scheduled four days of racing next week, from July 15-18.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – For more than a decade, the acquisition of high-priced claimers helped trainer Mike Mitchell win some of the biggest races of his career.

Ever a Friend, claimed for $62,500 in December 2007, won the Grade 1 Frank Kilroe Mile the following March. Church Service, claimed for $50,000 in January 2008, won the Grade 3 Dallas Turf Cup in May of that year. On the Acorn, taken for $40,000 in November 2006, later won three graded stakes, including the Grade 2 Jim Murray Handicap in 2007 and 2008.

Goosey Moose will miss the $75,000 Assault at Lone Star Park on Saturday for the first time in six years, but his trainer, Danny Pish, hopes he can make the 2011 running. The race is the main event on the annual Stars of Texas Day program each July.

Goosey Moose has won the Assault four times, starting with his first appearance in the race, in 2004. His most recent score came last year, at the age of 8. Goosey Moose seemed on his way to another Assault appearance until this past winter, when he sustained a ligament injury in a workout at Sam Houston.

Alameda County Fair CEO Rick Pickering took one for the team when he, somewhat reluctantly, requested and received permission from the California Horse Racing Board last Friday to cancel racing on Wednesday, July 7.

“We could have pushed to run that day,” he said, “but the Alameda County Fair is about being a good partner to racing, and this decision was made in the best interest of racing. It will help us have stronger cards the rest of the week and can help other fairs during this time when we have a low inventory of horses.”

Trainer Thad Keller has received a $500 fine and forfeited a second-place purse after his horse Wild Indian tested positive for a muscle relaxant, methocarbamol, at Prairie Meadows. Methocarbamol, commonly used in the treatment of pain and discomfort caused by sprains and strains, is classified by the Association of Racing Commissioners International as a Class 4 substance, one of several therapeutic medications that have limited potential to affect performance.

All Giving and Sunday Geisha, a pair of well-accomplished mares whose recent form has not been nearly as good as last year's, have found a spot where they could regain their confidence Friday night at Penn National.

The 6-year-old All Giving, a stakes winner at three tracks in 2009, and the 5-year-old Sunday Geisha, who won a sprint stakes at Monmouth Park and was runner-up in a $250,000 race at Philadelphia Park last season, are eligible to improve when they face 10 other female sprinters in the $60,000 Day Lilly Stakes.

The New York Racing Association announced Wednesday that it has scrapped a 5-year-old policy that required horses to be isolated in a security barn six hours prior to running in any race at a NYRA track, effective with the start of the Saratoga meet on July 23.