GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Zayat Stables and Southern California-based trainer Mike Mitchell plan to invade Lone Star Park on Saturday with as many as three horses for the afternoon's series of stakes. Halo Najib is a definite for the Grade 3, $300,000 Texas Mile, while the team's undercard representatives could be Everlasting Beauty in the $50,000 Irving Distaff and Kays and Jays for the $50,000 Richland Hills.

"There's nothing that really fits them at Hollywood right now, so it's a good opportunity to send all three of them," Mitchell said Tuesday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Helen Pitts said she was under the impression that her stable star, Einstein, was in a category all by himself.

"I'm almost sure I've got the only horse to win graded stakes on dirt, turf, and synthetic," said Pitts. "In fact we're just a little shy of being a Grade 1 winner on all three."

CHICAGO - While there is no Triple Crown in the future for Giant Oak, the talented 3-year-old colt will be pointed to another three-race series, Arlington's Mid-America Triple, trainer Chris Block said Monday.

NGLEWOOD, Calif. - Brewing uncertainty accompanies the start of the three-month spring-summer race meet Wednesday at Hollywood Park, where unanswered questions seem to outnumber opening-day runners.

Only 53 horses entered the eight-race program, lighter than the track's racing secretary, Martin Panza, would have preferred. But it was not a surprise. Panza will face an uphill climb for much of the 65-day season, which runs through July 19.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita recorded a 1 percent increase in ontrack attendance during the 84-day meeting that ended on Sunday, but handle figures were not as encouraging.

Ontrack handle was down 3 percent, while all-sources handle, including simulcast and account wagering, was down 12 percent, according to information provided by the track. Final business figures could change slightly, pending the compilation of data from nationwide wagering locations.

The declines in handle was no surprise to track officials.

SunRay Park in Farmington, N.M., has been unable to send its signal to out-of-state tracks since its mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses opened on April 17 because of a dispute with horsemen. Both parties were hopeful the situation would be resolved soon.

It s nothing to do with any simulcast issue, said Lonnie Barber, the director of racing for SunRay.

Six stakes at Calder originally slated as overnight races in 2009 have been elevated to full stakes status on this year's schedule. All six races are for 2-year-olds and have had their purse values increased from $50,000 to $100,000 apiece with the addition of funding from the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association for winning Florida-breds.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - When Reptilian Smarts won Sunday's feature race at Aqueduct, it capped a ridiculous four-day period for trainer Richard Dutrow, who won with seven of the nine horses he sent out here since last Thursday. The seven wins put Dutrow atop the trainer standings for the abbreviated four-week main-track meet, which has five days remaining.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The talented but injury-prone Biker Boy underwent surgery on Monday to remove a small chip in his ankle sustained during a training incident at Churchill Downs on Saturday.

According to trainer Nick Zito, Biker Boy had just exited the racetrack and was on the pavement leading back to the barn when he suddenly reared up and jumped away from the pony that was accompanying him.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It was during the 2008 spring-summer meeting at Hollywood Park that Stella Mark made the successful transition from claimer to stakes horse, winning the Tiznow Stakes for statebreds.

Stella Mark is back in Saturday's $150,000 Tiznow Stakes, and this year trainer Ted H. West is hoping that the now 5-year-old gelding can develop into a graded stakes winner.

"I think he's got a ton of talent, still," West said. "I was thinking of the Pacific Classic last year, he was getting so good. I don't see any reason why he couldn't be as good."