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.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The quality of the field for Saturday's $250,000 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park has been well documented, although the presence of Derby Watch members Capt. Candyman Can, This Ones for Phil, Notonthesamepage, and Beethoven did little to scare away the opposition.

A full field of 12 3-year-olds was drawn Wednesday for the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth, which will be run at a mile for the first time in the illustrious 63-year history of the race.

There have always only been two options for trainer Bret Calhoun's top 3-year-old prospect Silver City, but as far as paring the two down to one, Calhoun has not gotten very far. In fact, he said Wednesday that he is perfectly content to sit back and wait to determine whether Silver City will remain at his Fair Grounds base to start in the Louisiana Derby, or ship back to Oaklawn Park for another joust with Old Fashioned in the March 14 Rebel Stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The $1 million Santa Anita Handicap has largely developed in recent years into a seven-figure race for locals, save for the occasional invader from the East Coast.

But this year's running on Marcho7 will be different. Court Vision and Einstein are intriguing contenders from Florida, and they will not have come the farthest.

On Wednesday, Dansant, who has won five stakes in England in the last 18 months, left Great Britain for California.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Taqarub has never been behind a horse at any call in any of his three career starts. That modus operandi will likely change when Taqarub makes his graded stakes debut in Saturday's one-mile Fountain of Youth.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The way True Resurgence won a third-level allowance race here on Dec. 11, it looked as though he could be a major player in the older-male stakes run over Aqueduct's inner track this winter.

His connections aimed higher than that, however, and tried him in the Grade 3 Hal's Hope Stakes at Gulfstream Park. For whatever reason, True Resurgence didn't take to the south Florida sunshine and he finished 11th of 14 in the Hal's Hope, 10 lengths behind Delightful Kiss.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Rick Porter bought more yearlings than usual back in 2007, and is reaping the rewards this spring as he owns two of the top-ranked colts on this year's Kentucky Derby trail, Old Fashioned and Friesan Fire.

"We're pretty darn lucky," Porter said Wednesday.