HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Training hours proved rather uneventful here Friday morning. At least until a good-looking chestnut with a blaze face sizzled through a half-mile workout in 46.43 seconds shortly after 8 a.m. The work of the day belonged to Grade 1 winner Sky Diva, who shipped locally from Fair Grounds with a half-dozen other horses belonging to trainer Steve Klesaris earlier this month.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Trainer Tim Ritchey would like to see Bon Jovi Girl develop into a candidate for the Kentucky Oaks. She won her 3-year-old debut Thursday at Oaklawn in impressive fashion, and is headed to the Grade 3, $100,000 Honeybee here March 15.

"I would think that would be her next start, and then hopefully the Fantasy," Ritchey said of the Grade 2, $250,000 race to be run at Oaklawn on April 5.

"We gave her a little freshener with the eye to come in here and try to run in the big 3-year-old stakes and go on, hopefully, to the Kentucky Oaks."

ARCADIA, Calif. - When Magnum ended an eight-race losing streak in the Grade 2 San Antonio Handicap on Feb. 8, the victory capped a remarkable and lengthy comeback.

The San Antonio was Magnum's first stakes win since the Grade 3 Lone Star Park Handicap in May 2006. Between the two wins, Magnum's racing career, and life, changed significantly. He was off for 17 months from October 2006 to March 2008 because of minor injuries, and was gelded last year because of oversized testicles that made it uncomfortable for him to race.

The Assiniboia Downs meeting, which opens on May 10, will offer 32 stakes races worth a total of $1,165,000. The track has trimmed the purses of several stakes and dropped another from the schedule.

The purse for the Aug. 3 Manitoba Lotteries Derby, the showpiece of the 65-day session, will be $75,000, a drop of $25,000 from recent years. The purses for five other open stakes have been reduced from $50,000 to $30,000.

"We had to chop a little bit," said Ray Miller, Assiniboia's racing secretary. "We're hurting in this economy like everybody else."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Michael Repole and Steve Sigler will likely be involved in a year-long battle for leading owner on the New York Racing Association circuit. For now, they are engaged in a legal battle over the ownership of a horse.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 7 lost two potential starters Thursday when trainer Doug O'Neill said that Informed and Slew's Tiznow will be directed to other races.

Informed, second in the San Pasqual Handicap on Jan. 10 and fourth in the San Antonio Handicap on Feb. 8, will make his next start in the $1 million Godolphin Mile in Dubai on March 28. O'Neill said he was told that Informed had been invited on Thursday morning.

Will Rogers Downs will roll out a record purse structure during its 44-date mixed meet for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses that opens on Saturday, and the wealth has helped attract a number of new stables to the Claremore, Okla., track.

"I think it's the best horses we've had yet," said Kelly Cathey, track operations manager.

Will Rogers, which operates a 250-machine electronic gaming casino, has budgeted purses at $180,000 a day this meet, up 10 percent over the corresponding season in 2008. Of that amount, $130,000 a day has been tabbed for Thoroughbreds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - When it was confirmed Thursday that Paul Pompa Jr. had sold off an interest in his latest Kentucky Derby prospect, This Ones for Phil, the initial reaction was that the buyer must be Michael Iavarone and the IEAH Stable. After all, the first deal between Pompa and IEAH worked out pretty well for all concerned after Big Brown won both the Derby and Preakness and ultimately an Eclipse Award as the nation's top 3-year-old in 2008.

Rachel Alexandra looked every bit the part of one of the nation's top 3-year-old fillies on Thursday morning, when she breezed five furlongs in an effortless 1:00.80 at her Oaklawn Park base. She is scheduled to make her next start in the Grade 2, $400,000 Fair Grounds Oaks in New Orleans on March 14.

ARCADIA, Calif.-The absence of any winning favorites in Wednesday's pick six races has led to a two-day carryover of $704,945 for Thursday's program.

Santa Anita offers an eight-race program on Thursday, with the pick six covering the third through eighth races. The program begins at 1 p.m. Pacific.