Jockey Paul Nolan earned his 997th career victory last week and it's very likely he will earn his 1,000th career victory sometime this week. Nolan, 45, began his career as a jump rider in his native England but has earned the majority of his victories at Canterbury Park after traveling to Minnesota in 1988 to work as an exercise rider. Nolan, who began his riding career in 1990, suffered a broken neck during the 2005 Canterbury meeting. He was the leading rider at this meet last season.

Scat's Princess is one of the leading contenders in the Falls Amiss Handicap on Friday at Horsemen's Park.P

It isn't often that you see a horse in the infield pond at River Downs, but if you were watching on Tuesday you did.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Miss Dorothy finished third in the prep for the Dance Smartly here on June 29, but she is passing on that Grade 2, $300,000 stakes in favor of a comfortable spot here at Woodbine on Friday.

The third-level optional $80,000 claimer for fillies and mares over one mile of turf offers a purse of $78,400 and will go as the sixth race on a solid nine-race program.

The $600,000 WinStar Derby on March 16 will be the richest race of the 77-date Sunland Park meet, which opens on Dec. 12. The season will run through April 22, 2008. It will feature racing for both Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses.

The WinStar is one of 29 stakes scheduled for Thoroughbreds. A 1 1/8-mile race, it will share a Sunday card with three other stakes: the $200,000 Sunland Park Oaks at 1 1/16 miles; the $150,000 Harry W. Henson Breeders' Cup Handicap for fillies and mares at one mile; and the $100,000 New Mexico Breeders' Derby at one mile.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Heavy rains that caused flooding on the backstretch and on major roads near the track prompted Belmont Park officials to cancel Wednesday's live racing card. The track was also closed for simulcasting, though fans could wager on other tracks through the New York Racing Association's telebet and Internet services.

Heavy rain fell swiftly during training hours Monday morning, forcing officials to close the track for training at 8:30. The track had been open during the storms and absorbed a tremendous amount of water.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Like the steady lapping of waves only furlongs away, relative calmness returned to Del Mar on Tuesday morning, one day after trainers expressed concern that the track's new Polytrack surface was much harder on Monday than it had been on previous days. But a decision to have a mid-morning renovation break, and a delay in reopening the track for training, resulted in a dangerous situation in the six-furlong chute that played a role in an accident that injured former jockey Alan Patterson, who is now an exercise rider.

AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Doris Harwood has felt that Smarty Deb is a filly of high quality since she began working with her last fall, in part because she never made any mistakes.

Smarty Deb made a significant mistake in Sunday's six-furlong Angie C. Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, breaking dead last in a field of eight, but the fact that she overcame it seemed to validate her trainer's opinion.

Smarty Deb's gate problems began when she was reluctant to load, leaving the gate crew with few options but to pack her into the gate by brute force.

OMAHA, Neb. - Horsemen's Park fires up for a four-day festival of racing on Thursday as the track celebrates its 10th year of bringing live racing back to Omaha, Nebraska's largest city.

MIAMI - Mission accomplished.

That's how trainer Bill Kaplan would sum up Imawildandcrazyguy's 3 3/4-length allowance win here Saturday, the first victory for the gelding during a 3-year-old campaign that had seen him run fourth in the Kentucky Derby and sixth in the Belmont Stakes.

Trainer Howard Scarberry is starting to think Breeders' Cup with Silent Pleasure, who picked up his fifth stakes win of the year Saturday in the $125,000 Tiznow at Louisiana Downs. Scarberry said he would like to point Silent Pleasure for the new $1 million Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile at Monmouth Park on Oct. 26.