GROVE CITY, Ohio - The Fortune Six, the Beulah Park exotic that pays its jackpot only when there is a single winner, has reached an all-time high carryover of $403,341 going into Wednesday's card.

Regular and open nominations to the 12th annual Claiming Crown are due Friday. The six-race, $500,000 series is set for July 24 at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn. Further information is available at claimingcrown.com.

Three-year-old fillies grab the spotlight Saturday in the $60,000 Golden Poppy at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. It is the final stakes race for 3-year-old fillies on Golden Gate Fields's reduced stakes calendar.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Phone messages tend to pile up for the trainer with two Kentucky Derby hopefuls. A little before 5 a.m. Pacific on Tuesday, John Sadler was still catching up, returning unanswered calls from last weekend from the office at his Santa Anita barn.

"Sorry for the delay," said Sadler. "With all the traveling between here and Arkansas and some other stuff I had going on, things kind of got away from me."

If trainer Bret Calhoun is not careful, he might just alter his reputation. The 45-year-old, regarded early in his career as a trainer of 2-year-olds, proved this past week at Lone Star Park, as he has all year, that he can win with any kind of horse, even with veteran runners competing against horses half their age.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulfstream Park submitted a request earlier this month to the Florida Division of Pari-Mutuel Wagering to change the rule regarding multiple-leg wagers in cases where there is a late surface switch from turf to dirt in one or more of the races in the sequence. Unfortunately for Gulfstream Park president Ken Dunn and his customers, that request came too late to help alleviate another frustrating situation here Sunday, which was similar to the one on Feb. 27 that initiated the track's desire to change the rule.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Two days before he is to ship to Louisville for a run at the May 1 Kentucky Derby, Gotham Stakes winner Awesome Act worked five furlongs in 1:01.53 Tuesday morning over the Belmont Park training track.

It was Awesome Act's first work since he finished third behind Eskendereya and Jackson Bend in the at Aqueduct on April 3. It is the first of three scheduled works he is to have before Derby, said trainer Jeremy Noseda.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Ken McPeek said Tuesday morning that Noble's Promise, second on the graded earnings list and a potential key domino in who does and doesn't make the field for the May 1 Kentucky Derby, is "maybe 50-50 to make the race."

Noble's Promise colt emerged from his fifth-place finish in the Arkansas Derby with cuts and scrapes and a lung infection. The Cuvee colt has $738,000 in graded earnings, second only to Lookin At Lucky on a lengthy list that extends far beyond the 20-horse cutoff point.

Awesome Act will be taking his show on the road earlier than expected.

Initially slated to remain in New York until five days before the Kentucky Derby, Awesome Act is now scheduled to leave Belmont Park on Thursday evening and will arrive at Churchill Downs on Friday morning. Awesome Act, who won the Gotham here on March 6 before finishing third to Eskendereya in the Wood Memorial on April 3, will have his major work for the Derby next week and then likely a blowout the week of the race. Awesome Act was scheduled to breeze Tuesday at Belmont.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The Aqueduct stewards suspended jockey Fernando Jara seven days for an incident that occurred in the stretch of last Saturday's Grade 3 Comely Stakes. But the trainer of the horse who suffered the greatest impact in the incident is mad at his own rider for putting his filly in a precarious situation.