INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Wake Up Maggie's win in the restricted Long Beach Stakes on May 14 has left trainer Julio Canani with the expectations of a big summer.

Canani has entered Wake Up Maggie in Saturday's $75,000 Redondo Beach Stakes at Hollywood Park with the intent of using the race as a prep for the $750,000 CashCall Mile on turf on July 5.

Canani is confident that Wake Up Maggie will win the Redondo Beach, which is run over a mile on turf for fillies and mares that have not won a Grade 1 or Grade 2 race at a mile or over this year.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Three jockeys who rode a Triple Crown winner are still living: Ron Turcotte (Secretariat, 1973), Jean Cruguet (Seattle Slew, 1977), and Steve Cauthen (Affirmed, 1978).

But Billy Turner is the only surviving trainer of a Triple Crown winner, having been the conditioner of Seattle Slew when the colt became the first and only horse to sweep the series while still unbeaten.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - As has happened the last several years, the spring session of the Illinois legislature adjourned without passing any bills that would boost the state's troubled Thoroughbred industry.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Storm Mesa, who owns the year's best Beyer Speed Figure for a 3-year-old filly, will likely make her next start in the Delaware Oaks, her trainer, Bret Calhoun, said Wednesday. The Grade 2, $500,000 race will be run at Delaware Park on July 12.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - El Gato Malo, the winner of the Grade 3 Lone Star Park Derby last month, has been taken out of training with an undisclosed injury and is expected to return to racing in the fall, trainer Craig Dollase said on Wednesday.

Dollase declined to reveal the nature of the injury, but said that El Gato Malo was suffering from "wear and tear. We'll just give him some time. It's minor, what it is."

Fair Grounds has relaunched its website, incorporating an expanded information archive for live racing, new video features, and pages dedicated to Fair Grounds offtrack betting outlets and the track's slot machine facilities. The site was given a new address, .

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Taletobetold hardly fits the profile of a horse winless for over a year. An honest filly, she has been running the best numbers of her career, earning Beyer Speed Figures of 90 or higher in four of her last five races.

Yet since winning the Open Mind Stakes at Churchill Downs in May 2007, it hasn't been enough. Matched against some of the best female grass sprinters in this region, she has fallen just short of victory, while running well nearly every time.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Racing at Louisiana Downs switched to its traditional Thursday-through-Sunday schedule this week after beginning the meet May 17 with a weekends-only schedule. As with many issues in the industry these days, track management and horsemen viewed the Saturday and Sunday experiment differently.

"It's tough just running two days a week," said trainer Sam David, "especially for the owners who need to earn some purse money to pay the bills. Some of us have been here since late March when Fair Grounds ended, and now it is the first of June.

ELMONT, N.Y - When Birdstone caught and passed Smarty Jones in deep stretch of the Belmont Stakes four years ago, there was an unmistakable tone of despair and disappointment to race caller Tom Durkin's voice.

"Birdstone wins the Belmont Stakes," said Durkin, without exclamation.

It was the sixth time since Durkin made his first Belmont Stakes call in 1991 that a horse attempting to complete the Triple Crown had been denied. As unbeaten Big Brown takes aim at racing's greatest prize Saturday, Durkin once again is preparing himself for a momentous occasion.

ELMONT, N.Y. - True to the over-the-top programs that virtually all racetracks now stage on their biggest days, Belmont Park has packed its Belmont Stakes card with five other graded races, including three other Grade 1 events.

The two turf races - the Just a Game for fillies and mares and the Manhattan for older males - shape up as the deepest betting events of a 13-race Saturday marathon that begins at noon Eastern and lasts until 7:45 p.m.