GROVE CITY, Ohio - Beulah Park is scheduled to reopen Monday after canceling its last 11 racing days due to weather-related problems with its racing surface. Beulah has canceled a total of 17 full or partial days since the beginning of the winter/spring meet on Jan. 7.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Followers of the Chicago racing scene have grown familiar with the "bdancing" horses trained by Terrel Gore and owned by Bob and Nancy Bartels. The most notable among them is the Illinois-bred stakes veteran Bluesbdancing, who is training along at Hawthorne toward her 2008 debut. But the one running in the featured fifth race Sunday at Hawthorne, Shadowbdancing, also might be worth tracking.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Rafael Bejarano, the leading rider at Santa Anita, will be out two to four weeks with small fractures to two vertebrae in his back, the result of being thrown in an accident in the final race on Thursday at Santa Anita, his agent, Joe Ferrer, said Friday.

"He should be able to ride in a month," Ferrer said after he and Bejarano left the office of Dr. Dan Capen, a noted orthopedist and horse owner who has treated many jockeys over the years. "It could have been worse."

ARCADIA, Calif. – Rafael Bejarano, the leading rider at Santa Anita, was taken by ambulance to Arcadia Methodist Hospital on Thursday after he was injured in a one-horse spill in the eighth and final race.

Bejarano was thrown hard to the ground when his mount Parisian Art collapsed at the eighth pole and died of an apparent heart attack. Parisian Art was trailing the field and being eased when he went down; Bejarano landed head first. According to Santa Anita president Ron Charles, who was on the track soon after the accident, Bejarano was talking and moving his arms and legs.

Speechifying, a 5-year-old mare owned by Indian Mills Stock Farm and trained by Phil Aristone, was named Pennsylvania's horse of the year Wednesday night during the annual awards program of the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, comprising horsemen who race at Philadelphia Park.

During her 4-year-old campaign in 2007, which began with her running for a $15,000 claiming price against maidens, Speechifying won six races and $291,301, highlighted by a victory in the $250,000 My Juliet Stakes. She was also named top older female and top claiming horse.

The featured ninth race at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark., on Thursday was declared a no contest after the starting gate was unable to be pulled from the racetrack because of problems with a tractor. Wagers on the race were refunded, while bets tied into multiple races were given an "all" in the ninth race.

"We had a tractor malfunction," said David Longinotti, assistant general manager at Oaklawn. "We told it to go, and it wouldn't go. We'll obviously completely check out the tractor tonight, and hopefully we won't have any more problems with it in the future."

AUBURN, Wash. - The Grade 3, $300,000 Longacres Mile heads a list of 35 stakes worth $2,310,000 at the 2008 Emerald Downs meeting, which will begin April 18 and stretch 91 days through Sept. 28.

The 73rd running of the Longacres Mile will enjoy "Win and You're In" status for the $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile when it is run on Aug. 17.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The prospective starting lineup for the $1 million Florida Derby has seemingly grown on a daily basis over the past week. That growth, however, has led the connections of one 3-year-old previously earmarked for the race to seek out a smaller field and theoretically softer spot.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Ramon Dominguez calls himself his harshest critic. But even Dominguez would have a hard-time finding something to criticize about his performance in New York this winter.

With his two wins on Thursday, Dominguez has amassed 105 victories during the first 68 days of Aqueduct's inner track meet. That is believed to equal Eibar Coa's record set in 2005-06. That year, Dominguez had 100 wins.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Pyro established himself as the king of the Fair Grounds road to the Kentucky Derby. Now his stablemate Z Fortune will try to lock up the last two legs of Oaklawn's route. His quest begins on Saturday, when he starts in the Grade 2, $300,000 Rebel. The 1 1/16-mile stakes is the final local prep for the Grade 2, $1 million Arkansas Derby here April 12.