For the first time in four years, Larry Jones and his wife, Cindy, were several hundred miles away from Louisville when the Kentucky Derby was run. Watching the race on television from their temporary home in Delaware was just fine for them.

"It was the best Kentucky Derby I've had out of the last three," Larry Jones said Tuesday morning at Delaware Park, where he was getting on about eight or nine horses for Cindy, the new head trainer of the stable. "Hard Spun [second in 2007] was a pretty good Derby, but the other two kind of sucked."

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Arlington Park could continue limping forward, its future uncertain, if the Illinois state legislature doesn't pass legislation bringing electronic gaming to the state's racetracks. Or, if gaming at tracks is legalized, Arlington could become a suburban Chicago entertainment hub with a horse racing purse structure more than double that currently offered.

Jockey Glen Murphy was arrested at Prairie Meadows on Monday afternoon and released later in the day by the Iowa Department of Criminal Investigations, which was acting on what it thought to be an outstanding warrant.

ALBANY, Calif. - Three-year-olds will be in the spotlight Saturday, and not just at the Preakness. They will run at Golden Gate Fields in the $60,000 Alcatraz, a 1 1/16-mile turf test.

The track, which cut several stakes earlier this year, retained the Alcatraz and the Golden Poppy, a turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies, in part because of the depth of the local 3-year-old division.

MIAMI - The weather has really started to heat up in south Florida since April turned to May and so too have the big guns in trainer David Fawkes's arsenal, Duke of Mischief and Big Drama.

Both Duke of Mischief and Big Drama moved another step closer to their next start when they worked here Sunday morning. Duke of Mischief is preparing for another possible shot at a Grade 1 victory, while Big Drama readies for his much-anticipated 2010 debut, which could come locally within the next month.

The New Jersey Racing Commission has denied a stay requested by Bruce Levine and has ordered the trainer to begin serving a 15-day suspension on May 22, the first day of the Monmouth Park meeting.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It was a big weekend for Rail Trip. Not as big for Zenyatta. Rail Trip raced, and Zenyatta merely practiced. But even if they do not meet in a race this summer at Hollywood Park, the microscope is always on the top horses in California.

Rail Trip scored a solid comeback win Saturday, a 3 1/4-length victory in the Grade 2 Mervyn LeRoy Handicap that was his seventh win from 10 starts. It was his first start since September, and a race he was expected to win at 1-2 odds.

Super Saver won't be the only favorite who will be coming off a mere two-week layoff when he runs back this weekend with Calvin Borel aboard in a big race at Pimlico. Tidal Pool will be doing the same when Borel rides her as the favorite in the $175,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, the highlight of a 13-race Friday card at the Baltimore track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Terry Jordan is back in the spotlight, with no small thanks due to Hollywood Hit's explosive performance in Sunday's $153,500 Vigil.

Stretching out to seven furlongs in the Grade 3 Vigil, and coming off a win here in the six-furlong Jacques Cartier - for which he was saddled by trainer Danny O'Callaghan - Hollywood Hit did what he did best under regular rider Jim McAleney.

Horsemen and riders at Mountaineer Park in West Virginia have reached a tentative agreement on a new scale for losing mount fees, and jockeys have agreed to ride until the horsemen's organization has a chance to vote on the deal, according to a representative of the riders.

Heriberto Rivera Jr., a regional manager for the Jockeys' Guild, said that the Mountaineer Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association agreed to vote on the new scale for mount fees by May 27. The new scale will raise the minimum losing mount fee at the track to $65, up from $50.