High Resolve had no trouble staying unbeaten and basically untested in four career starts when she won the $45,000 Arizona Juvenile Fillies at Turf Paradise on Dec. 29. Owned by Harry Aleo and trained by Greg Gilchrist, the Northern California-based filly will try the $250,000 Sunshine Millions Oaks at Gulfstream Park in her next start, on Jan. 26. The Sunshine Millions is an eight-race program pitting California-breds against Florida-breds, and is run concurrently at Gulfstream and Santa Anita.

Dale Baird may be gone, but he's not forgotten.

Friends and colleagues of Thoroughbred racing's all-time leading trainer, who died when he was thrown from his truck in an accident along Interstate 70 near Greenfield, Ind., on Dec. 23, will gather at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort on Monday.

In what is billed as a "Celebration of Life," those who knew Baird during his more than 40-year career as an owner and trainer at Mountaineer will share their memories from 1 to 3 p.m. in Salon D of the facility's Convention and Conference Center.

Lone Star Park is constructing a new racing administration building on its backstretch. The project cost is $1.4 million, with $500,000 of that amount funded by the city of Grand Prairie. The building is scheduled to be occupied before the start of the Thoroughbred season April 10.

In addition to racing operations, the new building will house the track kitchen and offices for the stewards, the track chaplain, the Texas Racing Commission, and the Texas Horsemen's Partnership.

Louisiana Downs will begin a Quarter Horse meet Saturday with the $25,000 Harrah's Dash and trial races for the Grade 2, $150,000-added Harrah's Derby. The 40-date meet will run through March 18.

Angelas Toast is the defending champ in the Harrah's Dash, and as a winner of 16 races and $551,286 is the class of the field. His chief threat in the 250-yard race could be First Streakin Lee, who drew gate 10 and who won the 220-yard Evangeline Downs Dash in his last start.

Coach Mike will cut back to the distance of her biggest career win Friday night in the featured eighth race at Delta Downs. The five-furlong optional claimer drew a field of seven horses, including Susie Snooks, who in her last start ran fourth in the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Ladies Sprint at Fair Grounds.

The Beulah Park racing surface received a facelift of sorts during the two-week break between fall and winter racing. The inside speed bias that was apparent late in the fall meet, when the four inside horses and any horse with early speed that could get to the rail had to be considered in exotic wagers, appears to be gone. Quick times - six furlongs were routinely run in the 1:09 to 1:10 range last fall - are also gone. After the first two days of the winter meet, the fastest six-furlong time has been 1:15.03. Two maiden claiming races have gone in times over 1:18.

Canterbury Park will hold the two biggest events of its meet on the same day this summer as part of a $2 million stakes schedule the track released Wednesday.

The $600,000 Claiming Crown - which will return to Canterbury after being run at Ellis Park in Kentucky last year - and the $100,000 Lady Canterbury Stakes are both slated for Aug. 2, far and away the biggest day of the meet.

Santa Anita on Tuesday received unanimous permission from the California Horse Racing Board to move some of its dates across town to Hollywood Park if needed, but Ron Charles, Santa Anita's president, said he believed that would not be necessary.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The wet-weather failure of Cushion Track at Santa Anita will create handicapping uncertainty when the graded stakes schedule resumes this weekend.

Four graded stakes were scrapped when racing was canceled Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. All four are rescheduled for the coming weekend, and evaluating the current form of the principals is now a lot more difficult.

Churchill Downs Inc.'s blockbuster-stakes-day concept has some chops, at least from the look of Saturday's card at Fair Grounds in New Orleans. While no superstars - not yet, at least - appear on the program, the six $100,000 stakes races on the card drew competitive fields with plenty of quality for their respective class levels.