GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Identify the favorite and cash.

That could be the mantra for the current meet at Lone Star Park. Post-time favorites have been winning at a 41 percent rate over the first 38 dates of the meet, compared with the standard third of the time at most tracks. So far, 153 of the 366 races run to date have been taken by favorites, according to statistics provided by Lone Star. And the story was much the same last year, with favorites winning at a 39 percent rate over the course of the 65-date meet in Grand Prairie.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - A coalition of organizations with an option to purchase Fort Erie Race Track and current owners Nordic Gaming have waived a June 11 deadline, allowing both parties to continue to explore ways to keep the racetrack up and running.

The Fort Erie consortium, made up of the town of Fort Erie, the Economic Development and Tourism Corp., and the Ontario Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, entered into a letter of intent with Nordic in March with a 90-day window.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Fairplex Park in September will offer one less day of racing than in recent seasons, Fairplex Park official Kim Lloyd said on Friday.

The track intends to run a 15-day meeting from Sept. 10-28. The meeting will open the day after the Del Mar meeting ends on Sept. 9, and run Thursday through Sunday during the first week.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - One nice day. That's all trainer Ben Perkins Jr. asks, a break in the recent rainy stretch on the Jersey Shore so he can give Joey P. a solid workout.

That's all it takes. One drill, and the amazingly durable 7-year-old gelding will be ready to defend his title in the $250,000 Charles Town Invitational Dash on June 20.

Joey P. won last year's edition by three lengths, the only victory of the 16 in his career garnered outside New Jersey.

"I'm expecting that race to come up tougher," Perkins said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The connections of Tribal Teen are hoping he will be able to carry his speed a middle distance when he stretches out for the first time in the 1 1/16-mile CTHS Sales Stakes at Hastings on Sunday.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - For someone who was not supposed to be at Louisiana Downs this summer, jockey Francisco Torres has been rather high-profile. Torres was just one win behind defending riding champ Don Simington in the standings entering this week's racing, having visited the winner's circle 16 times. Torres, 39, had ridden just 73 mounts compared to Simington's 114.

Originally scheduled to ride at Presque Isle Downs in Pennsylvania this summer, Torres said he and agent Derek Ducoing rethought their plans at the last minute.

A deep group of eight older horses will go six furlongs in the $15,000 President's Cup Stakes. The field includes Tonight Rainbow, who will make his first appearance at State Fair Park since 2006, and The Nutz, who returns to action for the first time since his Dowd Mile win at Fonner Park in April.

The 8-year-old mare Vannacide has been a force through the years at Arapahoe Park, compiling a record of 10 wins, 6 seconds, and 3 thirds from 26 starts at the track to establish herself as one of the top Colorado-breds in training. Sunday, she is the marquee name on a program of four Arapahoe stakes, three of which are restricted to horses bred in Colorado.

Sunday's $50,000 Susan B. Anthony Handicap at Finger Lakes may have lost its star attraction, but the six-furlong sprint for New York-bred fillies and mares is now a more interesting race for handicappers.

Trainer Rick Dutrow indicated Friday that he intends to run the 4-year-old By the Light, 10 for 16 lifetime with earnings of $866,785, in Sunday's $65,000 What a Summer at Belmont Park, where she faces just four rivals, and avoids having to carry the 128 pounds she was assigned for the Susan B. Anthony, where she would have been odds-on.

ELMONT, N.Y. - As they shoot for a rare third victory in the prestigious Whitney Handicap in two months, trainer Nick Zito and his 8-year-old New York-bred gelding Commentator got a confidence boost Friday at Belmont Park.