NEW ORLEANS – Cody Autrey’s style of aggressive claiming has earned him a large number of fans and detractors, along with his many wins. Though his first weekend results at Fair Grounds were impressive, with 4 wins from 9 starts, Autrey seems intent on slightly altering his game plan by claiming fewer horses and buying better ones.

Finger Lakes canceled its nine-race card on Friday because of poor weather conditions in the area. Racing was scheduled to resume on Saturday.

Terrain and West Side Bernie, who last raced in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, were among 17 horses pre-entered on Friday in the Grade 3, $750,000 Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs. The 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-olds will be limited to a field of 10 when it is run on Delta's six-furlong track Dec. 5. Final entries for the race will be held Dec. 2.

Jockey Luis Quinonez has won titles at Oaklawn Park and Canterbury, but never at his home track of Remington Park, where he has ridden on a regular basis since 1989. That should soon change. With just three weeks left in the meet, Quinonez has a double-digit advantage in the standings and the continued support of leading trainer Steve Asmussen.

"I can taste it now," said Quinonez, 41, who lives in Jones, Okla., with his wife, Gedda, and their four children. "It would be nice. This is home. If I can hang on to it, it would be very special."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Sam DiPasquale nominated Marina Ballerina to both Saturday's Kennedy Road and Sunday's Bessarabian here at Woodbine.

Both stakes offer a purse of $150,000, but Marina Ballerina would have been facing males in the Grade 3, six-furlong Kennedy Road while the seven-furlong Bessarabian was for fillies and mares only.

And while he was tempted by the Kennedy Road's shorter distance, DiPasquale has elected to keep Marina Ballerina with her own gender in the Bessarabian.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Go back to 2003, and trainer Tony Mitchell won eight stakes races. A filly named Summer Mis accounted for three of them, including a Grade 3 sprint at the fall Keeneland meet.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Churchill Downs racing officials are expecting a small field, with maybe only as many five horses challenging Commentator when the annual fall-meet highlight, the Grade 2 Clark Handicap, is run Friday for the 135th time.

Commentator, the speedy New York-bred gelding with 13 wins from 20 starts, will be the highweight and favorite in the $400,000 Clark, one of four Grade 2 races that will close out the 26-day fall meet during the Thanksgiving weekend. Weights for the 1 1/8-mile race were to be released Saturday, with entries taken and drawn Tuesday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Shakis, who won the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga in 2007 and 2008, was euthanized on Friday after suffering a leg injury following a workout at Hollywood Park, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.

The injury occurred after Shakis worked a half-mile in 49.20 seconds on the main track.

"They had to put him down," McLaughlin said. "It's a real shame. He was a neat horse. It's tough."

Geordie will try to make it two in a row against Indiana-bred 2-year-olds when he faces 11 others in the $100,000 Indiana Stallion Stakes at Hoosier Park on Sunday, the closing day of the meet.

Geordie won at first asking Sept. 19 at Hoosier Park, defeating Indiana-breds by 3 1/2 lengths. The gelding then ran third in the Hillsdale on Oct. 12 before winning the Indiana Futurity at Hoosier by 4 1/2 lengths. The Indiana Stallion should be an easier spot for Geordie, as every horse in the race is not only Indiana-bred, but also sired by a registered Indiana sire.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Shakis, who won the Grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga in 2007 and 2008, was euthanized on Friday after suffering a leg injury following a workout at Hollywood Park, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.

The injury occurred after Shakis worked a half-mile in 49.20 seconds on the main track.

"They had to put him down," McLaughlin said. "It’s a real shame. He was a neat horse. It’s tough."