STICKNEY, Ill. - Chris Emigh is a successful, well-established, 38-year-old jockey with multiple riding titles and a family. A different sort of person might be lying low this time of year, spending some time with the kids, maybe even kicking back on a Caribbean beach. But no, there was Emigh on a bitter-cold Thursday and Friday in Chicago, riding for all he was worth over a frozen racetrack at Hawthorne.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - To the naked eye, it appeared Gooch's Dream won the featured seventh race on the turf Thursday at Hollywood Park. But the photo-finish camera showed Kbello the narrow winner, a result that lit up the phone lines at the track, caused Mike Machowsky, the trainer of Gooch's Dream, to file a formal complaint Friday, and left both the stewards and the track's photo-finish operator painstakingly explaining that the result was, indeed, correct.

NEW ORLEANS - Expected to be one of the strongest stables at the Fair Grounds this year, the Larry Jones barn has neared full strength with the Tuesday arrival of Old Fashioned. An impressive winner of last Saturday's Grade 2 Remsen at Aqueduct, Old Fashioned's trip south went smoothly, according to Jones.

"Everything's good," said Jones of Old Fashioned, who is undefeated in three starts. "He just got in and he hasn't been over the track yet."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Coming off a record-setting meet at Churchill Downs, trainer Mike Maker hopes to continue his roll this winter in New York. Maker will have 25 to 30 horses stabled here this winter to run during Aqueduct's inner-track meet.

Maker, 39, won 31 races at Churchill Downs, a record for a fall meet. As a former assistant to D. Wayne Lukas, Maker spent one winter in New York running things for his boss.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Roger Attfield has been extremely busy the last couple of weeks at his off-season base of Payson Park, where he has 35 horses, with five more to come following the conclusion of the meeting here Sunday.

But Attfield will be back in town Friday for the 34th annual Sovereign Awards, where he will be front and center as a finalist in the trainer category and for his divisional candidates Not Bourbon and Callwood Dancer.

One Lucky Buck will have a new look Sunday when he seeks his second straight stakes win at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., in the $200,000 Distance Championship Handicap. He will add blinkers for the 1 1/8-mile race following a clear win in the $55,000 Veterans in his last start, Nov.o8.

"He wants to drift out on the turns a little bit, and in the stretch in his last race he drifted, so after that race we decided to train him in blinkers," said Bart Hone, who trains One Lucky Buck for Adam and Paul Lewis. "It's kept him from drifting. He's training very good."

GROVE CITY, Ohio - Three jockeys were taken to local hospitals after a three-horse spill at Beulah Park in the third race on Friday.

Ronnigan, ridden by Jareth Loveberry, broke down while dueling for the lead entering the turn of the five-furlong race, throwing Loveberry over his head and to the ground. Classic Style, ridden by apprentice Chris Fackler, fell over the fallen horse and threw Fackler to the ground, and then Casino Sally, ridden by Wilkin Ortiz, fell over them.

Livin Lovin, the impressive winner of the Tempted Stakes at Aqueduct in her last start, has been scratched from Friday night's Grade 3, $500,000 Delta Princess at Delta Downs with a small chip in her left ankle, according to trainer Steve Klesaris.

Klesaris indicated that the 2-year-old daughter of Birdstone will have surgery and then be off two months. Klesaris expects Livin Lovin to rejoin his stable in the spring.

The colts have long had their Jackpot, but now the fillies are getting some serious cash, too. Delta Downs has boosted the purse of the Princess from $300,000 to $500,000, and the one-mile race, which will be run as a graded stakes for the first time Friday night, has drawn an excellent match-up in C. S. Silk and Livin Lovin.

C. S. Silk is expected to start as a slight favorite following her appearance in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. She set a hot pace and finished seventh to probable champion Stardom Bound in the mile and a sixteenth race Oct. 24 at Santa Anita.

Golden Yank has been cross-entered in two of Zia Park's biggest weekend stakes, the $150,000 Derby and the $200,000 Distance Championship, but on Thursday trainer Gary Thomas said the plan is to run Saturday in the Zia Park Derby. The appeal is that the 1 1/16-mile race is Golden Yank's last opportunity to compete with straight 3-year-olds.

"This is it," Thomas said. "I don't think we can let the derby go by, for sure."