LEXINGTON, Ky. - Cloudy's Knight, the 10-year-old gelding who has earned more than $2.5 million and would have been a solid favorite Friday in the closing-day Elkhorn Stakes at Keeneland, might have to be retired after suffering a tendon injury in a Monday workout, trainer Jonathan Sheppard said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The quest for that perfect Derby workout continued Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs, and while it might not have been perfect, Lookin At Lucky delivered a performance that came close enough to keep the bandwagon fully loaded and trainer Bob Baffert brimming with confidence.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When it came to training his Kentucky Derby horses, D. Wayne Lukas always kept everybody in the dark.

Lukas, a four-time Kentucky Derby winner, would traditionally send his Derby hopefuls out to train before dawn. None of his horses wore their personalized saddle towels, which would have identified them to both the media and public alike.

Stewards at Penn National Race Course have issued two suspensions totaling 90 days to trainer Anthony Adamo for the illegal possession of hypodermic needles and the "intent to administer an unnatural and unauthorized substance" to a horse owned by Michael Gill.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Euroears is set to make his two-turn debut Saturday against a diverse group of older horses in the Grade 3, $200,000 Texas Mile. Mythical Power, winner of last year's Lone Star Derby, flew in Monday from Southern California for the race, while Jonesboro, the defending champ, and Star Guitar, a 10-time stakes winner, also are a go.

The Texas Mile will share a card with two other stakes, the $50,000 Grand Prairie Turf Challenge and the $50,000 Irving Distaff. All are designed as stepping-stones to rich stakes on the Lone Star Million Day program May 31.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Eskendereya led a star-studded contingent of trainer Todd Pletcher's South Florida-based horses who arrived at his Churchill Downs barn shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday.

Eskendereya was joined on the flight by fellow Kentucky Derby starters Rule, Discreetly Mine, and Mission Impazible, as well as Devil May Care, who will run in either the Kentucky Oaks or Derby. Also aboard were Oaks contender Alailea, and the older, Grade 1-caliber sprinter Munnings.

The filly Devil May Care, considered one of the leading contenders for the Kentucky Oaks on April 30, could be entered instead in the Kentucky Derby on May 1, a scenario her trainer, Todd Pletcher, termed "a possibility" on Tuesday morning.

LOUISVILLE, KY. - Watching the contenders train in the weeks leading up to the Kentucky Derby is a little like playing the lottery, since any morning could be the one when you hit the jackpot and see a horse whose final Derby workout sets him (or, as would have been in the case last year with Rachel Alexandra, had she run in the Derby rather than the Oaks) apart from all the others.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Jockey Richard Migliore's riding career could be in jeopardy after it was discovered last week that he refractured the vertebrae in his neck. Migliore will undergo surgery at a Manhattan hospital next week.

It is believed Migliore suffered the fracture when he was thrown from a horse Jan. 23 at Aqueduct, but the injury was not diagnosed until Migliore met with a neurologist in Manhattan last Monday. Migliore first suffered a broken neck in a spill at Belmont Park in 1988.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Spring is in the air at Hollywood Park. But are there enough horses on the ground?

Hollywood opens Wednesday for a three-month meet on the main track handicappers consider the most consistent and fair synthetic surface in Southern California. Hollywood also marks the launch point for a fresh crop of 2-year-olds ready to begin their careers.