INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park will close its main track for up to three days in the coming weeks to conduct maintenance on the synthetic surface, track president Jack Liebau said on Tuesday.

Liebau said that 20 tons of fiber and rubber will be added to the Cushion Track brand synthetic surface sometime after the current meet ends on Sunday. The material is being shipped by boat from England, where the Cushion Track surface was manufactured.

Trainers based at Hollywood Park have been critical of the surface in recent weeks, noting a rising number of injuries.

Unbridled Belle will try to become the fifth repeat winner and sixth two-time winner of the Delaware Handicap when she faces 10 other older fillies and mares in Sunday's 71st running of the $1 million race at Delaware Park.

A 5-year-old mare trained by Todd Pletcher, Unbridled Belle got post 9 at Tuesday morning's draw and was established as the track's 2-1 morning-line favorite. She will carry 122 pounds, one pound more than 3-1 second choice Hystericalady and three pounds more than Spring Waltz, the third choice at 5-1.

Candy Ball's connections had to make a judgment call last week at Louisiana Downs. Their options were to run Candy Ball in a high-end optional claimer for fillies and mares at 7 1/2 furlongs on turf or against males in the $50,000 Independence.

The went for the stakes, and Candy Ball delivered with a dominant 2 3/4-length win. For the effort, she earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 92.

"She ran a big race," said Andrew Leggio, who trains Candy Ball for Rancha Fresa.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - In a fairly serious blow to the race, Forever Together was declared out of Saturday's $150,000 Modesty Handicap on Tuesday by trainer Jonathan Sheppard. So, while the Modesty may still get a field larger than average when the race is drawn Wednesday, it will go without the one starter with top-class potential in the female turf division.

AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Howard Belvoir is a straight shooter. After Wasserman had won his second straight Governor's Handicap in a thrilling four-horse photo finish, Belvoir was asked if the gelding reminded him of his former star Red Eye Express. Belvoir told it like it was.

"Naw," he said. "He doesn't compare to Red Eye."

Later, at his leisure, the trainer elaborated on his feelings for Red Eye Express, who won 22 races at Longacres in the early and mid-1970s.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Joe Move is one of the few Thoroughbreds to win his first stakes race after his first crop of foals hit the ground.

The rarity occurred on Saturday, when Joe Move pulled off a 20-1 upset in the $50,000 Lone Star Park Turf Sprint.

"He got it out of his system and won," said Richard Bird, who owns and trains Joe Move.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It didn't come in a stakes race but the most impressive performance here last weekend was delivered by Starticus, a comfortable winner of a six-furlong turf race that was timed in a track-record 1:07.39.

Owned by Danny Lococo, trained by Ralph Biamonte, and ridden by Corey Fraser, Starticus won for the third time in as many starts this season, while competing under third-level allowance conditions in Saturday's $80,000 optional claimer.

M J's Enchanteur ($5), claimed for $40,000 in January, won his fourth race since coming to trainer Scott Lake's barn and first stakes when he held off Springs Road by three-quarters of a length in the $57,750 Oh Say for 3-year-old sprinters at Delaware Park.

Trainer Bill Mott shipped a horse in from New York to win the Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap at Philadelphia Park for the second time in three years on Monday.

Sharp Susan ($5.20), following the same path that produced a win for 2-5 favorite Pommes Frites in 2006, used the Grade 1 Just a Game at Belmont Park as a stepping-stone to the Doc Penny.

Cody Autrey, one of the leading trainers at Lone Star Park this summer, has been fined $12,500 and suspended seven days as part of a stipulated agreement with the California Horse Racing Board for two positive tests for the banned medication guanabenz found in his starters at Del Mar last summer.