Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., has scheduled 17 stakes for Thoroughbreds during its mixed meet that opens on Sept. 13. The slots-rich track, which also runs Quarter Horses, will conduct a 53-day season through Dec. 9. Purses during the meet are projected to average a record $300,000 a day.

The stakes for Thoroughbreds are worth a cumulative $2 million. The schedule is led by the $200,000 Zia Park Distance Championship, a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds and up on Dec. 7. The $150,000 Zia Park Derby, at 1 1/16 miles, will be run Dec. 6.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Won Awesome Dude will get his first shot at graded stakes company in the Grade 3, $400,000 Lone Star Park Handicap here May 26, according to his trainer, Mike Mareina. Won Awesome Dude was a dominant 5 1/2-length winner of the $50,000 Tony Sanchez Memorial Stakes in his last start April 19, and earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 90.

"He's coming off a good race," said Mareina. "He's just been consistent, and it's time to step up and see what he is."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Magnificience was gone, but never forgotten. And even when she disappeared after brilliant victories in both of her starts last spring, trainer Bruce Headley promised the best was yet come.

"People I've never seen before, racing fans, ask, 'How's Magnificience?'" Headley said.

Sunday at Hollywood Park, the answer will be clear. Magnificience returns from a 13-month layoff in a sprint allowance (race 3) that is the first step on an ambitious campaign.

"What am I trying to do? - go all the way to the Breeders' Cup," Headley said.

Trainer Michelle Lovell tested the waters at Louisiana Downs last year, when she shipped in from Texas and won 6 races from 24 starters, including the $50,000 Princess with Shedoesrock. This meet, she has set up shop at the Bossier City, La., racetrack. Lovell has a 30-horse stable settled in for the season that opened on Saturday.

All Giving improved his record on off tracks, getting a perfect inside trip under Eric Rodriguez and splashing to a five-length victory in the $67,750 The Very One Stakes.

Owned by the Concepts Unlimited Stable and Catherine Smith and trained by Flint Stites, All Giving figured as a longshot in the five-furlong The Very One had remained on turf – but it didn’t, because of soggy conditions. Bet down to second favoritism at 5-2, the 4-year-old filly laid several lengths the pace from a favorable inside spot, then surged past front-running Cat on a Cloud at the top of the stretch.

BALTIMORE - Todd Pletcher had a day to forget Friday.

Early in the morning, Pletcher had to scratch Behindatthebar from Saturday's Preakness Stakes due to a bruised foot. A few hours later, Pletcher had to scratch A. P. Arrow from Friday's $250,000 Pimlico Special when the colt displayed signs of the intestinal disorder colic following a van ride down from New York.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - For the first time in about 20 years, Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott will be running a string of horses out of Arlington Park, and not just with a handful of stalls set up to accept shippers from Mott's regular Midwest stable at Churchill Downs. Mott has 24 stalls on the Arlington backstretch, almost all of them already are full, and the Mott stable figures to be a regular participant in Arlington races this summer.

"We needed a place for a few horses to go, and it seemed like Arlington had worked for us before," Mott said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Disfunction has been an overachiever thus far in his career.

And now trainer Julia Carey has decided to give her stable star his first taste of stakes competition in Monday's Grade 3 Vigil.

"He certainly doesn't owe us anything," said Carey, 54, who trains Disfunction for owners Joe Doi and Weila Ye.

"He's done nothing but surprise us, from day one."

The drama sapped from the Woodlawn Stakes by the scratches of program favorites Hatta Fort and Prussian was salvaged to a degree when Termsofengagement, last of six for most of the way, surged to a mild upset in the $50,000 race at Pimlico.

BALTIMORE - Student Council entered Friday's $250,000 Pimlico Special as the only Grade 1 winner in the field and he left the race the same way.

Under Shaun Bridgmohan, Student Council rallied from well off the pace and was able to run down front-running Gottcha Gold to win the Grade 1 Pimlico Special by a neck at soggy Pimlico. Gottcha Gold finished 5 3/4 lengths ahead of Sir Whimsey, who was followed by Temporary Saint, Grasshopper, Ryan's for Real, and Xchanger.