Trainer Todd Fincher has won six of the last 10 Thoroughbred stakes run at Zia Park, and has a little more business to conduct before the season ends Dec. 8.

His streak began on Oct. 18, when Glory Be Mine defeated open company in the $60,000 Permian Basin. The following weekend, Fincher sent out Lydia's Last Step to upset the $60,000 Governor's Cup for 2-year-olds at 59-1. But that was just a glimpse of what was to come Nov. 8, when he won four of the seven Thoroughbred stakes run on the $2 million New Mexico Cup card at Zia.

Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., will begin receiving horses in its stable area on Monday, with the first day of training at the track scheduled for Nov. 23. The Oaklawn meet will begin Jan. 15.

Pat Pope, the track's racing secretary, said he received requests for close to 3,000 stall accommodations. Letters informing trainers of their stall allotments were sent out Friday.

"I see no reason why we won't fill the 1,500 stalls," Pope said of the capacity at Oaklawn.

Kentucky Derby winner Mine That Bird has returned to his New Mexico base and is getting some time off following his ninth-place finish in last weekend's $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic. He is settled in at a Roswell training center facility owned by Mark Allen, who races Mine That Bird in partnership with Leonard Blach.

"He's home at Double Eagle, turned out," said Chip Woolley, who trains Mine That Bird. "We're going to rest him for a while, probably get him back up the first of the year."

Orientate Express is becoming a bit of a giant-killer in the Southwest. He has upset a pair of odds-on favorites in stakes in Oklahoma and New Mexico in his last two starts, and next month will get the biggest test of his career. Trainer Kelly Von Hemel said Orientate Express is being pointed for the $200,000 Distance Championship at Zia Park on Dec. 6.

Last weekend, the horse won the track's prep for the race, the $60,000 Veteran, taking down Song of Navarone, the 3-5 favorite off a series of competitive efforts in major stakes in Southern California.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Zenyatta has not abdicated her throne quite yet, and fans that missed her historic triumph in the Breeders' Cup Classic may have another chance to see her in person.

Hollywood Park and Santa Anita, along with owners Jerry and Ann Moss and trainer John Shirreffs, are making plans for Zenyatta to parade in front of the crowd at both tracks. The date for the Hollywood showcase this fall has not been announced; Shirreffs said Santa Anita "wants to do something opening day (Dec. 26)."

NEW ORLEANS - Sok Sok, who is undefeated at the Fair Grounds, is training to defend his Thanksgiving Day Handicap title on Nov 26.

Sok Sok posted three dominating stakes victories at the last Fair Grounds meet last winter and spring, and seemed poised for a successful year when he won the Duncan F. Kenner here in March. However, after leaving Fair Grounds, Sok Sok went 0 for 5, with only one in-the-money finish. His last effort was a fourth-place finish in Premier Handicap at Zia Park on Sept. 13.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Seven jockeys at the ongoing Hawthorne Race Course meet had won between 19 and 23 races through Thursday. But remove Inez Karlsson, who sits at 21 victories, from the leading-rider discussion.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Roan Inish, in her first start off the plane from Ireland, was a game winner of the 1 1/16-mile Princess Elizabeth Stakes here Oct. 31.

On Sunday, Roan Inish will be looking to double up for her rookie trainer, Carolyn Costigan, when she faces nine rivals in the $150,000 Glorious Song at seven furlongs.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Even as a strong, chilled wind whipped in his face while standing along the rail on a steel-gray Friday morning at Aqueduct, there was no place else trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. wanted to be. Unfortunately for Dutrow, starting Sunday, he will not be permitted at Aqueduct or any other track in North America for the next month.

Benefiting from a shift in the live racing schedule, average all-sources handle for the 101-day Suffolk Downs meet in East Boston, Mass., increased 7.6 percent compared with all-sources handle for a 102-day meet last year, according to figures provided by the track on Friday.