NEW ORLEANS - Thursday's sixth race, a first-level allowance for 2-year-olds going a mile, had the potential to produce runners for the upcoming 3-year-old stakes at Fair Grounds. It resulted in a beaten favorite, a last-minute scratch, and, surprise, Steve Asmussen standing in the winner's circle.

Asmussen's trainee, Uno Mas, rated in third until the turn, then took over from favorite Friesan Fire. Uno Mas finished 2 1/4 lengths in front of Friesan Fire, who finished 11 1/4 lengths in front of third-place Escalon.

Gulfstream Park has asked Florida's supreme court to enforce an earlier ruling that the Seminole tribe cannot offer table games at its seven casinos in the state.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Gayego, winner of the Arkansas Derby in April who set a track record for 6 1/2 furlongs at Hollywood Park on Nov. 30, has been privately bought by trainer A.C. Avila, according to Avila and the colt's former trainer, Paulo Lobo.

Avila declined to reveal the purchase price. The deal was finalized earlier this month.

Beulah Park cancelled racing Friday due to adverse weather conditions. Heavy rain overnight in the Columbus area and warming tempatures caused the track to be covered with water and thawing out. Racing is expected to resumse on Saturday, closing day.

Rosemary Homeister Jr. notched her 2,000th career victory Thursday at Tampa Bay Downs when she rode Rustyshouldrun ($8.40) to a 1 1/4-length win in the seventh race.

Homeister, 35, who began her career in south Florida in 1992, has had nearly 15,000 mounts, which have earned a total of more than $34,482,000 in purses.

Remington Park in Oklahoma City is the latest track to report a decline in average daily handle in an economy that has challenged racing. Purses, however, were up at Remington, which operates a slots casino. The track's 67-date meet closed Sunday.

The return of the Grade 2 San Francisco Mile highlights the winter-spring stakes schedule at Golden Gate Fields in Albany, Calif. The meet begins next Friday and runs through June 14, 2009.

The San Francisco Mile was not run last year because the now-closed Bay Meadows had the bulk of the spring dates in Northern California, and there was no opportunity to run it at Golden Gate. The race will return on April 25 with a $300,000 purse, the richest of the 18 stakes at the meeting.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Nearly eight months after her last start, Tiz a Blend makes her comeback in Saturday's $75,000 Cat's Cradle Handicap at Hollywood Park. How ready she is to return in a race going 7 1/2 furlongs is another matter.

The race is more than a sprint, but not quite a route. "You've got to train it as a mile race," trainer Carla Gaines said. "To say she's dead set and ready, that's a bit of a question."

The surface is also an issue. Owned by Warren Williamson, Tiz a Blend has won 3 of 11 starts, but is winless in four starts on synthetic main tracks.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Before Azul Leon ever ran this past spring, the word was out that he was one of the most precocious 2-year-olds on the circuit. And though he could not handle the likes of Midshipman and Street Hero in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Norfolk Stakes this fall, he has had a productive first season, one that trainer Doug O'Neill hopes ends on an up note on Saturday in the Grade 1, $750,000 CashCall Futurity at Hollywood Park.

Peppers Pride is not the only one who has been perfect throughout her historic 19-race career. Jockey Carlos Madeira has been aboard for every one of those wins in a partnership that was formed when she made her career debut at Ruidoso Downs in July 2005.