A winter blast on the first day of spring forced Will Rogers Downs near Tulsa and Remington Park in Oklahoma City to cancel their Saturday programs. Will Rogers was to have opened its Thoroughbred meet Saturday afternoon, while Remington s night card was to have featured the Grade 2, $310,000 Oklahoma Quarter Horse Futurity.

Will Rogers was hit with ice and snow on Saturday and more was forecast overnight, said Kelly Cathey, the track s racing secretary and operations manager.

We re expected to have 8 to 12 inches of snow, Cathey said Saturday.

Conveyance is one of eight early probables for the Grade 3, $800,000 Sunland Park Derby on Sunday, March 28. The race will be the richest of six stakes worth a cumulative $1.4 million on the card. Also on the program, which is the most lucrative of the meet, is the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks.

Overcoming a slow start, Liam's Dream slipped through inside the leaders turning for home, and drew clear to win Saturday's at Aqueduct under Rosie Napravnik.

Liam's Dream was last after checking at the break, but recovered to make up some ground inside as Southern Truth cut fractions of 22.27 and 45.34 seconds under pressure from Bickersons, the 7-10 favorite.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - While Tempted to Tapit, one of the leading 3-year-olds stabled in south Florida this winter, did not run in Saturday's Florida Derby, the Risen Star Stakes runner-up did make his presence felt during training hours earlier in the day.

ARCADIA, Calif. - More than five months have passed since trainer Doug O'Neill won his last stakes, with Bench the Judge in the California Cup Juvenile last October. The drought has not been for a lack of trying; O'Neill has had 37 starters in stakes throughout the nation since then.

In April, O'Neill could break out of that slump in two lucrative races. Thomas Baines starts in the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 3, and Enriched is being pointed to the $1 million Charles Town Classic in West Virgnia on April 17.

Tickets for the 142nd Belmont Stakes, scheduled to be run Saturday, June 5, at Belmont Park, are now available online at Ticketmaster.com and also through downloadable forms at nyra.com. The New York Racing Association announced the availability Friday.

Reserved seating applications can be requested by calling the NYRA reserved seating office at (800) 814-7846, or through nyra.com.

Reserved seat prices for the Belmont range from $20-$120.

NEW ORLEANS - General Quarters is back on track to run in the Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap next Saturday after missing three days of training with a swollen ankle.

General Quarters had been preparing for his third stakes race of the Fair Grounds season and had been scheduled to work last Wednesday, but he injured himself while coming off the track Sunday.

"He kicked his left front ankle," owner-trainer Tom McCarthy said. "He comes off the racetrack awful tough, and if you don't get him right away he goes to dancing, and he kicked himself."

Convocation returned from a 7 1/2-month layoff with a visually impressive five-length victory Thursday in a first-level allowance race going a mile. He had not run since finishing fifth in the Jim Dandy last year. Prior to that, he was second in the Dwyer at Belmont Park.

Trainer Jimmy Jerkens said Convocation was injured behind last summer, and that necessitated time off. He returned to the barn in late December.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Jockey Garrett Gomez, who led the nation's riders in earnings last year, will spend the spring riding in Kentucky and the summer in New Jersey or New York, his agent, Ron Anderson, said Friday.

Gomez, who won the Eclipse Award as the nation's outstanding rider of 2007 and 2008, plans to ride at Santa Anita through early April. He will ride at Keeneland in April, beginning the week of April 5, and ride at Churchill Downs in May and June before considering a move to Monmouth Park in New Jersey, Anderson said.

If the connections of Tampa Bay Derby winner Odysseus elect to run their horse again before the Kentucky Derby, they will likely choose between the Arkansas Derby or Blue Grass, trainer Tom Albertrani said Friday.

"We're thinking of one more race, all subject to how he's training," Albertrani said. "If we don't think he's up to it, then we'll wait the seven weeks."

Albertrani said Odysseus galloped Friday morning at Palm Meadows.