Lane's End Farm has dropped its sponsorship of the Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland Race Course, ending 12 years of being the title sponsor of the Grade 1 race for 2-year-olds.

The Breeders' Futurity is run on the first Saturday in October. A Grade 1 race since 2004, its purse was $500,000 last year when Square Eddie prevailed. The 1 1/16-mile Polytrack race often serves as a major prep for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, serving last year as a Win and You're In race, with victory guaranteeing a BC berth.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association will produce five one-hour television shows during the course of the Saratoga racing season that will air on MSG-Plus, a regional network that is available on satellite outlets. The programs will offer live coverage of the graded stakes races to be run on five of the six Saturdays of the meet. The lone exception is Travers Day (Aug. 29), as the Travers will be covered by ESPN.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Way back in June, Triumphant Flight won his debut at Hollywood Park in a five-furlong maiden race for statebreds.

It is that performance that gives trainer Eric Kruljac confidence that Triumphant Flight can run well in Saturday's $70,000 San Miguel Stakes at Santa Anita. The San Miguel, run over six furlongs for 3-year-olds, will be Triumphant Flight's first start since a second-place finish in the California Cup Juvenile here last October.

Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La., has boosted the purse of its richest race, the Grade 2 Super Derby, from $500,000 to $750,000 in the most significant change to its 34-race stakes schedule, worth more than $3.3 million. The 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds will be run on Sept. 19.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Time is running out on trainer Nick Zito to get one of his 3-year-olds to the Kentucky Derby. Perhaps his best chance at this stage is Just a Coincidence, who Zito confirmed on Wednesday as a starter for the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial to be run here on April 4.

The Wood has been kind to Zito, who has 3 wins and 2 seconds from 10 starters in this race since 1990. Though it took six tries for Just a Coincidence, a son of Forestry, to earn a maiden win, he has put together two straight victories in one-turn mile races at Gulfstream Park.

Trainer Bob Baffert first started visiting Sunland Park as a 14-year-old kid tagging along with his father. Sunday, he has two bullets to fire at the meet's richest race, the $800,000 Sunland Park Derby. Baffert will send out Mayor Marv, the morning-line favorite for the 1 1/8-mile race, and Mythical Power, a recent Santa Anita maiden winner who wil be ridden by Garrett Gomez.

"It's a lotta money up for grabs," said Baffert.

NEW ORLEANS - Jockey Patrick Valenzuela's first season at the Fair Grounds appears to be done. Valenzuela took off his scheduled mounts last week, and his agent, Paul Pembo, said the stewards told him Valenzuela was suspended for the last three days of meet, which ends Sunday.

"I haven't seen the official statement," said Pembo. "But the stewards called me in and told me not to take any more mounts for him for the rest of the meet."

ARCADIA, Calif. - The dream of starting Square Eddie in the Kentucky Derby on May 2 remains for owner Paul Reddam and trainer Doug O'Neill.

Despite not starting since January because of a cannon bone injury, Square Eddie, winner of the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland last fall, has resumed training and could be trained up to the Kentucky Derby, Reddam and O'Neill said Wednesday.

Reddam said that weekly X-rays in the last month have shown enough improvement to allow Square Eddie to resume full exercise.

NEW ORLEANS - When Angel Montano and his ownership team, also known as his sons and son-in-law, claimed Geniver for $16,000 in May of 2008, she was already 7 years old, and gave no indication that her best days were still ahead.

Handicappers can brush up on their competitive nature this Sunday when the second installment of Fonner Park's Handicapping Contest is held, featuring the day's live racing card.

The contest is limited to the first 60 paid entries and requires a $25 entry fee, plus a $100 bankroll that will be deposited to the player's account through the mutuel system. Contestants are free to choose the amount they wish to wager from their bankroll on any race and in any pool offered on Fonner Park's card.