Cash Refund looked about the same winning a Fair Grounds optional claiming race on Sunday as he had in his previous start nearly seven months before - fast.

Slew's Tiznow, a two-time stakes winner, has joined trainer Jamie Lloyd's stable.

The 4-year-old Slew's Tiznow has not started since finishing 10th of 11 in the Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap last March, his final start for trainer Doug O'Neill. Owned by Joseph LaCombe, Slew's Tiznow has won 3 of 9 starts and $256,870 and two minor stakes - the El Cajon Stakes and War Chant Stakes.

He was second in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland in 2007.

Macias may have found a home on turf with a victory in his debut on that surface in Monday's $72,150 Eddie Logan Stakes.

Macias ($7.40) ran a mile on turf in 1:35.11, finishing three-quarters of a length in front of Alfarabi, the 3-2 favorite who rallied from last in the field of eight.

Trainer Bob Baffert worked Macias on turf in October but never found a suitable race for the colt, by Purge. With a strong group of 3-year-olds in his stable, Baffert is hoping that Macias can excel on turf.

Dream Empress, the winner of the Grade 1 Alcibiades Stakes at Keeneland in 2008, will need a sharp performance in her next start to continue her racing career.

After the filly finished third, beaten 2 1/4 lengths in Monday's third race, assistant trainer Jordan Blair said Dream Empress will start in another allowance race in January. The result of that race will determine whether she is sent to be bred or races as a 4-year-old.

"We'll make a career decision," Blair said. "We want to see if she wants to be a racehorse."

Caracortado will make his graded stakes debut in the Grade 2, $150,000 Robert Lewis Stakes on Feb. 6, a race that could draw division leader Lookin at Lucky.

Caracortado extended his unbeaten streak to four with a win in last Saturday's $100,000 California Breeders' Champion Stakes at Santa Anita for statebreds.

"I'll have to try one of the bigger races," said trainer and co-owner Mike Machowsky.

ARCADIA, Calif. - California Flag, the winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Santa Anita in November, has returned to California following a fifth-place finish in the Group 1 Hong Kong Sprint earlier this month, but will be back on the road in early 2010.

Trainer Brian Koriner is planning another international trip, to the $1 million Al Quoz Sprint on turf on the Dubai World Cup undercard on March 27.

Trainer Todd Pletcher said he'll likely run two of his top handicap performers, Quality Road and Harlem Rocker, in Sunday's $100,000 Hal's Hope Handicap at Gulfstream. The Grade 3 Hal's Hope highlights the opening-day program of the 2010 Gulfstream meeting.

MIAMI - This Ones for Phil coughed a few times on Saturday morning, just hours before he was to go postward as the likely favorite in Calder's Grade 3 Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap. And his trainer, Rick Dutrow, couldn't have been happier.

Dutrow scratched This Ones for Phil from the Kenny Noe but was able to send him right back out to work a half-mile over the turf at Gulfstream Park the following morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Macias won his second stakes, and first on turf, in Monday's $72,150 Eddie Logan Stakes at Santa Anita.

Macias ran a mile on turf in 1:35.11, finishing three-quarters of a length in front of Alfarabi, the 3-2 favorite who rallied from last in the field of eight. Thomas Baines finished third, 2 3-4 lengths behind the winner.

Macias ($7.40) stalked pacesetter Lucks Mine through early fractions of 23.2 and 46.81 seconds and took the lead in early stretch.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The connections of Wishful Tomcat do plan to try their New York-bred against open company stakes horses again, but they just don't plan to do it right away.

Wishful Tomcat returned from a six-month layoff with a professional 2 3/4-length victory in Sunday's $69,550 Alex M. Robb Handicap for New York-breds at Aqueduct. It was his seventh consecutive victory against New York-breds dating back to December 2007. In between, he did win the Grade 3 Discovery last year, but lost three consecutive tries against graded stakes company earlier in 2009.