NEW ORLEANS - Say "Louisiana-bred," and it's no trouble conjuring a vision of maiden-claimers running five furlongs at Delta Downs. But greenhorn owners Keith and Ginger Myers and trainer Glenn Delahoussaye, have another idea.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Lentenor's bid to secure a spot on the Kentucky Derby trail took a slight detour on Wednesday when he suffered a half-length setback at the hands of Doubles Partner in the featured eighth race at Gulfstream Park.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Conveyance led the charge of six Southwest hopefuls who worked at Oaklawn on Wednesday, when he breezed a half-mile in 48.40 seconds in hand. Jockey Calvin Borel was aboard, with Martin Garcia to ride Conveyance in Saturday's rescheduled Southwest, said the horse's trainer, Bob Baffert.

"Calvin did me a big favor by working him," Baffert said.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The San Luis Rey Downs training center in Bonsall, Calif., faces closure within a month after officials with the company that owns the facility notified trainers earlier this week that they do not intend to keep the facility open beyond March 15.

But a group of trainers at San Luis Rey Downs are working on a potential business plan with training center owner Magna International to preserve the year-round facility, according to trainer and facility manager Leigh Ann Howard.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Ramon Dominguez won the first five races at Aqueduct on Wednesday, but good fortune gave way to bad luck in his quest to equal and/or break the New York Racing Association record for most wins on a single card.

After winning the first five races on the card, Dominguez had a tough trip when third in the seventh race. In the eighth, Dominguez was aboard Liston, who stumbled out of the gate and then was bothered by a loose horse throughout the race. Dominguez finished last aboard Liston, the 4-5 favorite.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Bruce Levine, the trainer of Buddy's Saint, was letting the cold water from a hose cascade over the colt's right front ankle outside his Gulfstream Park barn on Wednesday morning. It was Levine, though, who seemed more in need of a being hosed down before Buddy's Saint runs in the Grade 2, $250,000 Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth Stakes here on Saturday.

Asked if he was nervous, anxious, or excited, a tense Levine said, "That first word."

"I've got no backups, no one in the bullpen, no one sitting on deck,"

A Kentucky Oaks Day fund-raiser to benefit breast cancer awareness and research will be held for the second straight year when the filly classic is run April 30 for the 136th time at Churchill Downs, track officials announced Wednesday morning at a media conference at the Louisville, Ky., track.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A win, a second, and an incomplete. For trainer John Sadler, his weekend was pretty darn good, and sets the stage for better things to come.

Sadler has at least two promising 3-year-olds in Sidney's Candy and Dave in Dixie. The jury is still out on Domonation. Sidney's Candy, rebounding from a surprisingly flat try in his comeback race six weeks ago, added his name to the list of top Kentucky Derby contenders with an overpowering, 4 1/4-length in the on Monday at Santa Anita.

NEW ORLEANS - First Polytrack, then turf, and now dirt - there apparently is no racing surface on which the 3-year-old filly Chantilly Nayla cannot succeed.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - The field for the Grade 3, $250,000 Southwest, which was rescheduled for Saturday after being canceled Monday, should be about the same as its original cast of 10. The connections of Conveyance, Mission Impazible, Cardiff Giant, and Domonation have all expressed their intent to run back, while top Oaklawn-based runners Dublin and Dryfly are a go for what is the first of two preps for the Grade 1, $1 million Arkansas Derby.