MIAMI - All Hail Stormy has competed exclusively at five furlongs since switching to the barn of trainer Phil Gleaves for the 2007 campaign and has been a sprint specialist through his career. But after watching the veteran gelding encounter trouble in several of his races here this season, Gleaves will switch tactics and stretch All Hail Stormy out around two turns for the first time in Monday's $26,000 optional claiming feature at Calder, to be decided at one mile on the turf.

ELMONT, N.Y - In response to numerous complaints from horsemen that the New York Racing Association tracks have been too hard, management has agreed to tweak the way it maintains its dirt surfaces.

POMONA, Calif. – Jockey Jose Dominguez was still in pain Friday after being injured Thursday in a spill that forced stewards to declare race 6 no contest and refund wagers that totaled $440,341.

The unusual circumstances unfolded when Dominguez's mount, Irish Honor, clipped heels soon after the start of the 6 1/2-furlong race. Dominguez fell off and lay motionless just past the eighth pole.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Crossing the Line, the electrifying winner of the Grade 2 Del Mar Mile on turf in August, will be sidelined until next spring after undergoing surgery to have a bone chip removed from an ankle, trainer John Sadler said.

The surgery was conducted on Wednesday and eliminates Crossing the Line from two major stakes - the $250,000 Oak Tree Mile at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting on Oct. 7 and the $400,000 Citation Handicap at Hollywood Park on Nov. 23.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Many of the jockeys came back after the first race on Friday at Hawthorne Race Course with some foreign substance coating their silks and - in some cases - their faces. It was dirt, and Chicago racetrackers are not used to this.

MIAMI - Sprinters and long-distance specialists alike will be on display Sunday at Calder with the six-furlong Whippleton and 1 3/8-mile Oliver stakes sharing top billing on the 12-race card. Both overnight events offer a purse of $50,000.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Revved Up, still going strong at age 9, will be paying his fifth visit to Woodbine for Sunday's Grade 2, $300,000 Sky Classic.

A gelding owned by Live Oak Plantation and trained throughout his career by Christophe Clement, Revved Up has won 18 of 39 starts, including 12 stakes, and finished in the money 28 times while earning $1,451,062.

"He likes the course there," said Clement, from his Belmont Park base. "He's training well, and he looks good."

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer Jim Penney certainly knows what kind of horse it takes to win the Grade 3 British Columbia Breeders' Cup Derby. The last horse he brought up from Emerald Downs for the B.C. Derby was Flamethrowintexan in 2004. Flamethrowintexan ran one of the best races of his career to win the derby by 8 1/2 lengths.

Nominations closed last week for the five-race Kentucky Cup series at Turfway Park, including the signature event, the Grade 2 Kentucky Cup Classic, which carried with it a huge question that Carl Nafzger was supposed to answer on Saturday: Will Street Sense run?

With Street Sense, the Classic figures as a terrific race, considering that archrival Hard Spun already has been committed by trainer Larry Jones to the 1 1/8-mile event. Without him, the race is just okay, and Hard Spun will default to being a heavy favorite.

AUBURN, Wash. - Victory Script made it made it seven wins in a row here last Saturday, when she blew away four overmatched rivals by six lengths in a $20,000 starter allowance affair at 6 1/2 furlongs. She needs one more win to equal the mark of eight wins in a single Emerald Downs season set by Halonator in 2005, but trainer Roy Lumm isn't sure she will get the opportunity.