Superior Storm, who was scratched out of a stakes Saturday at Louisiana Downs, will likely be pointed for the $100,000 Louisiana Showcase Distaff at Evangeline on July 3, said her trainer, Rick Jackson.

Superior Storm recently spiked a temperature, which forced her out of the $100,000 Louisiana Cup Distaff. Jackson said she has been nominated to the Grade 3, $200,000 Ouija Board Distaff on Lone Star Million Day, but will miss that race, too, because the medication used to treat the fever will not have cleared her system by then.

Awesome Gem and El Gato Malo are set for a Texas invasion. Trainer Craig Dollase said Friday from Hollywood Park that the horses are being pointed for separate stakes on the Lone Star Million Day card Monday, May 31.

Awesome Gem is targeting the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap, while El Gato Malo is set to make his first start of the year in the $150,000 Dallas Turf Cup. David Flores has the mount on both horses, said Dollase, who trains the pair of graded winners for West Point Thoroughbreds.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Emerald Downs-based trainer Doris Harwood is making her second trip to Hastings on Monday. If it goes as well as her first trip here, she will be getting her picture taken with Knight Raider in the $50,000 Emerald Downs for 3-year-old fillies.

Last year, Harwood shipped Winning Machine and Noosa Beach to Hastings to run in the Grade 3, $275,000 British Columbia Derby, and they took home a large share of the purse by finishing first and third.

"That was pretty nice," Harwood said. "Hopefully we'll have as much luck with Knight Raider."

Denise Boudrot, a pioneering female jockey with more than 1,000 victories and the first to win a major race meet title, died May 19 at her farm in Grafton, Vt., after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 57.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Monmouth Park is a bulwark against time. The stately 65-year-old racetrack peddles charm and tradition, and those wares have never faded here. Fresh coats of green and white paint are usually the only things required to spruce up the place every summer. And although the 2007 Breeders' Cup necessitated renovations and a few additions to the facility, the postcard-pretty racetrack has always offered satisfying continuity. Until now, of course.

ELMONT, N.Y. - There is a pick-six carryover of $105,745 into Friday's card at Belmont Park after the wager went unhit for a second consecutive card. There was a modest carryover of $26,595 following Wednesday's card.

Entering the last leg of Thursday's pick six, there was one live ticket with 56-1 shot Mystic Era. But that horse was eased in the stretch, never giving that one bettor a run for his/her money.

OCEANPORT, N.J. -- Garrett Gomez and agent Ron Anderson were keenly interested when news of the 50-day, $50 million summer meet at Monmouth Park first circulated over the winter.

The more they explored the concept, the more excited they became.

"My agent had to feel things out," said Gomez, the nation's leading money-winning rider for a fourth straight year in 2009. "We had to make sure this was actually going down. Once we found out it was going to happen, we started to tell people we were coming this way."

New Madrid's status as a Belmont Stakes starter took a hit Thursday when the 3-year-old could manage no better than a fifth-place finish in a first-level turf allowance race at Belmont.

After dueling outside of Syo Defenceman through modest fractions, New Madrid could not quicken when the real running started in the stretch and he was beaten 3 3/4 lengths by Kindergarden Kid, who rallied powerfully four wide in the stretch. Jockey John Velazquez said New Madrid was "one-paced."

Expansion, winner of the Grade 2 Red Smith at Aqueduct last fall, is being pointed to the Grade 1 Manhattan here on Belmont Stakes Day, trainer Chad Brown said Thursday.

In two starts this year, Expansion finished fifth in the Grade 2 Mac Diarmida at Gulfstream and then fourth in the Grade 2 Elkhorn at Keeneland. Brown said he believes Expansion had significant trouble in the Elkhorn until too late.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association opted not to card either of Sunday's two scheduled New York Stallion Stakes for 3-year-olds due to insufficient entries. The Cupecoy's Joy, for 3-year-old fillies, and the Spectacular Bid, for 3-year-old males, were both scheduled as seven-furlong turf races.