MIAMI - Trainer Joe Calascibetta lost one potential star when unbeaten 2-year-old Cheyann Belief was sold privately shortly after winning his career debut for Calascibetta by 10 lengths here earlier this spring. But it didn't take long for the veteran horseman to find himself another potential star, the 3-year-old filly Pica Slew, who stole the show on Saturday's Summit of Speed Preview card.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Reductions in Arlington Park stakes purses has trainer Jonathan Sheppard thinking twice about his participation in upcoming stakes here, Sheppard said Monday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park officials canceled racing Thursday due to insufficient entries for its scheduled eight-race card. Live racing will resume Friday.

The cancellation is the second at the meeting due to insufficient entries. Racing was also scrapped Wednesday, May 24. Considering the shortage of horses, two cancellations is less severe than many expected for a meet scheduled for 60 days. One year ago, the track raced 55 days.

Mike Cronin, Gulfstream Park's assistant to the president of marketing, and Caton Bredar, the track's executive producer of media development, have been dismissed by Gulfstream's management as part of a "restructuring," track officials said on Tuesday.

Cronin and Bredar, who were brought aboard by the track's former general manager, Ken Dunn, in December of last year, said they were informed last Thursday by the track's current general manager, Steve Calabro, that they would not be retained for next year's meet, which runs from early January to late April.

AUBURN, Wash. - Racing at Emerald Downs resumes Thursday evening with a seven-race card beginning at 6 p.m. Pacific, though horsemen and horseplayers already are looking ahead to Sunday, when the one-mile Budweiser Handicap will help bring the local handicap division into sharper focus.

Star Guitar has been voted Louisiana-bred horse of the year for 2009 by the Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders Association after sweeping the four richest races for his division last year. The board of directors votes on the award from the list of the organization's divisional champions, said LTBA official Roger Heitzmann.

Star Guitar, who is also the champion older horse for the LTBA, is expected to make his next start in the $100,000 Louisiana Showcase Classic at Evangeline on July 3.

Bella Diamante, the Lone Star-based runner who was 14th in the Kentucky Oaks in her last start April 30, has since had a bone chip removed from an ankle. She is targeted to make her return during the fall meet at Remington Park, according to her trainer, Allen Milligan.

Milligan said the $200,000 Remington Park Oaks on Oct. 10 is a goal for Bella Diamante.

Bella Diamante has run second in three stakes, including the Grade 3, $500,000 Delta Princess last winter at Delta Downs. Her last win came in a second-level allowance sprint at Oaklawn in April.

Category Seven has not met a turf course in Louisiana or Texas that she can not handle. A winner at Evangeline Downs, Fair Grounds, Lone Star Park, and Louisiana Downs, Category Seven picked off her second straight allowance win in the region on Sunday and now has three upcoming stakes goals. First up is the $50,000 Top Corsage at her Louisiana Downs base July 3.

"She's a good mare," said Ken Hargrave, who trains Category Seven for James Perron. "We put her on the grass and she just kept winning. We've been awfully lucky to win nine [turf] races with her."

Frank Bernis figured that after more than 22 years as the right-hand man to Tom Amoss, it was time to try something new. Bernis has become the agent for jockey Jamie Theriot, who will ride at Ellis Park and Arlington Park after the Churchill meet ends July 4.

"I've thought about this for quite a while," said Bernis, 41.

Amoss said Bernis was an unsung hero in his stable, which has won more than 2,300 races since 1987.

"Frank's been with me since Day One," said Amoss. "He's been more like my partner than my assistant. He will be greatly, greatly missed."

Patrick-Lawley Wakelin, racing manager for Robert Evans, has been here checking up on the owner's local stock trained by Mark Frostad.

Lawley-Wakelin also took the opportunity to express his delight with the Ontario Racing Commission's decision to reinstate Marsh Side as the winner of Woodbine's 2009 Northern Dancer.

The ORC had heard the appeals by Evans and jockey Javier Castellano on May 26 and released its findings last Friday.

"It was never about the money," said Lawley-Wakelin. "It was about winning another Grade 1, and the importance for his value at stud."