INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jockey Joel Rosario grabbed a spot in Hollywood Park's record book with a six-win day Friday. By doing so, he may have clinched the riding title at the fall meeting.

Rosario, who began the day with a three-race lead over Rafael Bejarano, ended the program with an eight-race advantage, 31 to 23. The fall meeting ends Dec. 20. There was racing on Saturday and Sunday over the weekend and four days of racing this week - Thursday through Sunday.

Rosario won with 6 of his 7 mounts Friday, tying a record shared by three Hall of Famers.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Lava Man's expected comeback in Saturday's $100,000 Native Diver Handicap at Hollywood Park is unlikely to happen.

Lava Man's trainer, Doug O'Neill, said on Friday that Lava Man is "not officially" out of the Native Diver, but said he did not see a scenario in which the 8-year-old would run. Intermittent rain began falling in Southern California early Friday and was expected to continue into Saturday. O'Neill said he was reluctant to run Lava Man on a synthetic surface that encountered rain.

Trainer Todd Pletcher confirmed that Quality Road will return to the scene of his finest hour, Gulfstream Park, to open his 2010 campaign in the Grade 3 Hal's Hope Handicap on opening day, Jan. 3. Quality Road moved to the top of the 3-year-old division last spring with his impressive victory in the Grade 1 Florida Derby.

Quality Road worked for the first time since arriving at Palm Meadows on Monday.

Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw, Okla., which was shuttered on Nov. 28, has been purchased by Cherokee Nation in a deal that closed Thursday. The tribe operates Will Rogers Downs near Tulsa, but said there are no immediate plans for use of its new acquisition.

"We had an opportunity to purchase property that is within our tribal jurisdiction so we always closely consider that and see it as a wise business decision to take advantage of that any time we can," David Stewart, the chief executive officer of Cherokee Nation Entertainment, said in a release issued Friday.

MIAMI - Restrictions that prohibited horses from shipping in or out of Calder will be lifted Sunday, nearly two weeks after a quarantine was imposed on three barns following a confirmed case of equine herpesvirus. But entries at Calder may not benefit as much as hoped due to shipping restrictions put into place by Gulfstream Park and the Palm Meadows training center.

NEW ORLEANS - Trainer Michael Stidham is off to his customary hot start at the Fair Grounds, and has yet to let his veterans loose on the oval.

Entering the weekend with 5 wins from 34 starts, Stidham looks poised to turn in another strong meet. He plans to send Secret Getaway, one of his stable's top horses, out to defend his crown in the Tenacious Handicap on Dec. 20.

Off since a disappointing fifth in the Grade 2 Cornhusker at Prairie Meadows on July 27, Secret Getaway has been training well over a track he loves.

It is not an uncommon story. A young man in his 20s, frustrated with his job prospects, decides to return to school.

What is uncommon is when a young man returns to school to become . . . a jockey.

That is the path Ben Creed took a little more than two years ago, when he left his job at UPS to join Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron's North American Riding Academy in Lexington. And now he finds himself not just a rider but currently the co-leading rider at Turfway Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The connections of Stardom Bound hope that a return to the West Coast will result in a return to form for the champion 2-year-old filly of 2008.

According to Michael Iavarone, co-president of the IEAH Stables, the majority owner in the filly, Stardom Bound will make her next start in the Grade 2, $150,000 El Encino Stakes at Santa Anita on Jan. 17. Stardom Bound has won four Grade 1 races at Santa Anita, including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in 2008.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - For the second consecutive day, Hollywood Park needed two days to fill entries for a weekend card, and the product offered Sunday is similar to Saturday's program - low on horses.

Sunday's nine-race program drew 57 horses. Saturday's nine-race program drew 59 horses. The number of actual horses that will compete is expected to be lower after late scratches because of illness or injury.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - There were high hopes for Honour Devil when he joined trainer Kiaran McLaughlin's New York stable in the spring. But as winter closes in and 2009 closes out, Honour Devil's promise has yet to be fulfilled.

The Argentine-bred Honour Devil gets one more chance to make an imprint on North American racing when he runs in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Queens County Handicap at Aqueduct. It will be Honour Devil's final start here as he is expected to re-join his previous trainer, Michael de Kock in Dubai, following the Queens County.