HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Noble's Promise, who could go favored in the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby, breezed five furlongs for the race Friday morning at Oaklawn. Trainer Ken McPeek flew in from Florida for the move, which was the first of two the horse is scheduled to have before the April 10 race. McPeek also had Beautician out on the track for some speed work, and he said she is set to make her next start in the Grade 2, $300,000 Fantasy at Oaklawn.

Zenyatta cruised six furlongs Thursday at Hollywood, her first workout since extending her win streak to 15 races in the Grade 1 Santa Margarita Handicap. Mike Smith was aboard for the 1:14.60 drill that clockers dubbed breezing.

"She worked great," Smith said, adding "really, really good."

Trainer John Shirreffs said Zenyatta "came out of her last race very well" and said her Thursday breeze was a "nice, easy work." Shirreffs said Zenyatta will work again Friday, April 2, and confirmed that the Apple Blossom on April 9 at Oaklawn will be her next start.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The only missing piece from the Santa Anita Derby on April 3 is the role of favorite. A field of nine or 10, led by pacesetter Sidney's Candy, is expected for the Derby in which Sidney's Candy would be the indisputable favorite, only if Lookin At Lucky does not run.

Bob Baffert said a decision regarding Lookin At Lucky's participation will be made after he works Sunday.

"I want to run here," Baffert said Friday at Santa Anita. "It gives him four weeks" before the Kentucky Derby.

MIAMI - Calder Race Course will present 50 stakes worth more than $6 million during the Calder and Tropical at Calder meets in 2010, down approximately $300,000 from the overall value of the 2009 stakes program.

The Summit of Speed and Festival of the Sun programs will again anchor the 33-race Calder schedule, although purse cuts have been made to several key races on both programs. The Summit of Speed will be held Saturday, July 10, with the Festival of the Sun to be presented Saturday, Oct. 16.

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Jockey Paco Lopez stole the show here Thursday, winning four races in a row, the second through the fifth, on the 10-race card. The winners, none of whom was favored, ranged in price from Edgemoor ($9.40) to Moose Man ($41.20), two coming from the barn of Eddie Plesa Jr. and the others for trainers Rick Sacco and Steve Klesaris.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - As of Friday, Pleasant Prince held down the all important 20th and final spot on the graded earnings list with $162,500. But with 14 more graded stakes for 3-year-olds still on the calendar leading up to the Kentucky Derby on May 1, it's not a position the Florida Derby runner-up figures to hold on to for very long.

But despite the realities of the math, owner Ken Ramsey and trainer Wesley Ward are sticking to their guns and not planning on running Pleasant Prince again prior to the Derby.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Daniel Centeno, three time leading rider at Tampa Bay Downs and the current leader in the jockey standings with 106 victories this season, will be sidelined until Wednesday as he recuperates from injuries sustained in a spill that occurred during the running of Thursday's eighth race.

Hollywood Park will redirect a portion of money available for marketing and promotions toward purses for lower-level claiming horses at the upcoming spring-summer meeting that begins on April 21, according to the track's racing secretary, Martin Panza.

Panza said the additional money, from the industry-run California Marketing Committee, will be directed to purses for horses running for prices ranging from $8,000 to $40,000, with the bulk of the increases geared toward horses running from $8,000 to $20,000.

After enduring a winter in 2009 he doesn't want to remember, jockey Javier Castellano is enjoying a start to 2010 he won't soon forget.

Hampered by two spills last year at Gulfstream Park, where he finished with 18 wins, Castellano has threaded his way to the top of the jockey standings this year at Gulfstream with 48 winners through Sunday. Though he is unlikely to stay on top because he will leave for Keeneland following Sunday's card - with four weeks remaining in the Gulfstream meet - Castellano has more than erased the bad memories of 2009.

Two New York horsemen's groups put out a joint press release Thursday condemning Gov. David Paterson's proposed plan to restart the bidding process from the beginning to select an operator of a casino at Aqueduct. The plan, if adopted, would likely delay the selection process until the end of the year.

The New York Thoroughbred Breeders and the New York Horsemen's Association said a delay of that magnitude would be a death knell to the $2.4 billion horse racing industry, which accounts for approximately 35,000 jobs statewide.