Chalk players cashed plenty of tickets on Tuesday at Fairmount Park as six of the eight races on the card were won by favorites. Cart Teacher and Sir Talc, winners of the first and last races, were the only non-favorites to win, but both were close second choices in the wagering.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Look across the Arlington Park racetrack and you see a long line of willow trees. Look across Hawthorne Race Course and you see a line of smokestacks. But this year, as the scene shifts from suburban Arlington back to urban Hawthorne, the focus isn't on what sits around the properties, but the surface that lies atop their ovals.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Arlington Million winner Jambalaya will not see action again this season due to an injury.

Catherine Day Phillips, who trains Jambalaya and is his owner in partnership with her husband, Todd, said the gelding was sent to Kentucky on Tuesday for an MRI and an acute bone bruise at the end of a cannon bone was discovered.

CHICAGO - Arlington Park expanded its racing season and tacked on more time as a dark-day simulcast host when 2008 Illinois racing dates were allocated Tuesday during a meeting of the Illinois Racing Board, but Arlington racing officials left feeling miffed.

Arlington had asked for a major expansion of its 2007 meet, applying for a 115-day 2008 meet that would have run through Oct. 15 and forced a scheduling change to the Hawthorne Gold Cup. The board, in a 7-3 vote, settled on a more moderate Arlington expansion.

Octave, a two-time Grade 1 stakes winner in New York this summer, heads a field of eight 3-year-old fillies that were entered Tuesday for Saturday's Fitz Dixon Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park.

Based at Belmont Park with trainer Todd Pletcher, who has won the Cotillion three times since 2002, Octave drew the rail and will carry high weight of 123 pounds in the Grade 2, $750,000 stakes at 1 1/16 miles. She is the 7-5 favorite on the track's morning line.

AUBURN, Wash. - Favorites won all seven of the stakes on Washington Cup Day last year, and the chalk-fest continued for much of Sunday's Washington Cup V program.

Louisiana Downs set out to lure a superstar to the Super Derby by offering to double the purse to $1 million this year if a Triple Crown race winner was part of the field. And while Street Sense, Curlin, and Rags to Riches all chose different paths, the track has still landed one of the hottest 3-year-olds going for Saturday's race.

MIAMI - Trainer Bill Kaplan watched Imawildandcrazyguy work an easy half-mile over the turf here Monday morning and shortly thereafter made his way to the racing office to enter his Grade 1-seasoned 3-year-old in Saturday's $100,000 Needles Stakes. The Needles is carded at 1 1/16 miles on the grass.

Corey County on Tuesday morning became the first of the air arrivals for Saturday's program of $1.3 million in stakes at Louisiana Downs. He has traveled from the Southern California stable of trainer Neil Drysdale to run in the $200,000 Unbridled Breeders' Cup.

The 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up is one of five stakes on a card that features the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby. A second flight bringing horses to town for the races was due in Wednesday. It was to originate in New York and stop in Louisville, Ky., before arriving in Louisiana.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Bear Now and Leonnatus Anteas, two of the most talented 3-year-olds here at Woodbine, headed out Tuesday for engagements south of the border this Saturday.

Bear Now has been entered in the Grade 2, $750,000 Cotillion, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies at Philadelphia Park.

Leonnatus Anteas is slated for the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby, a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds at Louisiana Downs.

Jerry Baird, who was aboard Bear Now for the first time when she won the seven-furlong Duchess here last time out, retains the mount.