Hollye Lynne is one of the most versatile horses based at Sam Houston Race Park. She has won around one turn and two, on dirt and on turf, and on the front end and from off the pace. Yet on Saturday night, Hollye Lynne will be trying something new. She will be making her first start in a turf route in the $50,000 Jersey Village Stakes.

The 1 1/16-mile turf race is for Texas-bred fillies and mares. Among the leading contenders in the 10-horse field are Wild Encounter, a stakes winner, and Boundus and Senora Tormenta.

The New York Giants showed throughout the season that you don’t need a home field advantage, winning an NFL record 10 road games before defeating the Patriots in the Super Bowl. Yonegwa hasn’t had the success of the Giants, but he’s become a road warrior nonetheless, having run his nine races at seven racetracks. A 3-year-old son of Kafwain, Yonegwa heads the $50,000 Budweiser Handicap at Sunland Park, a five-furlong event for 3-year-olds.

PHOENIX – The Turf Paradise meet titles for 3-year-olds and 3-year-old fillies are up for grabs Saturday in the $100,000 Turf Paradise Derby and the $75,000 Arizona Oaks. The derby (race 8) is run at 1 1/16 miles, and the Oaks (race 7) is at a mile. Each race drew a field of eight.

Calder Race Course has added a four-stakes, $1.15 million day of turf racing in April that includes a bet tied to the Kentucky Derby. Called the Turf Million, it will be conducted on April 26. The 2008 Calder meet opens on April 21.

NEW ORLEANS - It is February, and Better Talk Now is supposed to be on holiday. In fact, it would be entirely reasonable if Better Talk Now, at age 9, were on permanent holiday, retired to graze grass and gaze at nothing in particular in some peaceful pasture.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita president Ron Charles said he was "guarded" about whether racing could resume on Friday, saying that track maintenance crews may need that day to complete a renovation project to improve drainage of the Cushion Track.

Charles said he will make a decision on Friday's program after talking with Ian Pearse, the Australian track consultant and founder of the Pro-Ride synthetic surface, who is working with Santa Anita officials on the renovation. The project consists of adding polymers and fibers to the one-mile main track.

Turfway Park has announced that it will conduct racing on two upcoming Mondays to make up for programs canceled earlier this year. Racing will be conducted on Presidents Day, Feb. 18, and on March 17, when the newly created St. Patrick's Day Handicap, a $50,000 sprint for older horses, will be run.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A disappointing result with his promising 3-year-old Cave's Valley in last weekend's Whirlaway Stakes hasn't deterred trainer Michael Trombetta from coming back to Aqueduct.

Trombetta said he is pointing Spectacular Malibu to Saturday's $75,000 Correction Handicap for fillies and mares at six furlongs. The Correction would be Spectacular Malibu's first race since Dec. 30, 2006, when she was beaten a neck in the Maryland Juvenile Fillies Championship at Laurel Park. Prior to that, she finished second in the Grade 3 Tempted at Aqueduct.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Like most jockeys at this time of the year, Edgar Prado is still looking for his Derby horse. And wouldn't it be ironic if the one he found began his racing career in, of all places, Prado's native Peru?

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Kettleoneup, a leading contender for the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap, is scheduled to make her first start of the year in next week's $50,000 Pippin Stakes at Oaklawn Park, trainer Michael Tomlinson said. The 1 1/16-mile race is scheduled for Feb. 16.

"That's what the plan is as of right now," Tomlinson said.

Kettleoneup had a major work for the Pippin on Monday, breezing five furlongs in a bullet 1:00.60 under regular rider Calvin Borel. The work was the quickest of 33 at the distance that morning at Oaklawn.