All-sources handle and attendance figures for the recently completed 71-day meet at Laurel Park in Maryland fell sharply compared to last year, according to figures released by the track's owner on Friday.

Average all-sources wagering on Laurel's races dropped 7.2 percent, from $2.83 million to $2.63 million, with ontrack handle on the live card dropping 13.1 percent, from $286,000 a day to $249,000 a day. Wagering on Laurel's simulcast signal dropped 6.5 percent, from $2.54 million to $2.38 million a day.

STICKNEY, Ill. - The Wayne Catalano stable has heated up at Hawthorne - and points beyond. Catalano has won with 11 of 29 starters here, and last Saturday had Lewis Michael turn in a strong performance in the Commonwealth Breeders' Cup at Keeneland. But, as has often been the case, Lewis Michael encountered a horse who ran out of his skin, in this case Silent Name, who probably turned in the most impressive Polytrack performance of the Keeneland meet.

"Lewis just ran the best race of his life," said Steve Leving, stable manager for owner Frank Calabrese.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - If horses are judged by the company they keep then Mighty Eros figures to be highly regarded by bettors seeking to find the winner of Sunday's $100,000 Park Avenue Division of the New York Stallion Stakes at Aqueduct.

Mighty Eros, a 3-year-old daughter of Freud, won her debut last month by 11 1/4 lengths, running six furlongs in 1:11.92 and earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 81. The second-, third-, and fourth-place finishers from that race each won her next start.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Mark Casse, last year's Sovereign Award-winning trainer, captured the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks in 2006 with Kimchi, who went on to be voted Canada's champion 3-year-old filly.

Kimchi no longer is in Casse's care, but he has his usual solid outfit and will send out Sanibel and Silky Smooth in Sunday's $125,000 Star Shoot.

The Star Shoot, a six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies, is the first local prep on the road to the June 10 Woodbine Oaks at 1 1/8 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The walls of trainer Juan Reviriego's stable office on the Santa Anita backstretch offer a brief tour of his professional and personal life.

There are photos of Reviriego's career as a jockey and trainer in Argentina, photos of his wife and two daughters, and a few of Reviriego with celebrities such as Julio Iglesias, Rudolf Nureyev, and Willie Nelson.

One wall has a collection of win photos of his American racing stable, a highlight package of the three years that Reviriego, 61, has trained in California.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Wes Hawley will have one of the longest shots in the field when the 133rd Kentucky Oaks is run May 4 at Churchill Downs. Hawley, 44, is not drawing inspiration from the fact that the Oaks was captured last year by the longest-priced winner in race history - Lemons Forever, a 47-1 shot - but from a source far more personal.

AUBURN, Wash. - Several new outfits will be racing at Emerald Downs this season, but most are not strangers to local fans.

Trainer Janet Armstrong, for example, introduced herself to Washington racing last season when she brought Sophie's Trophy down from Hastings to win the Irish Day Handicap for 3-year-old fillies. She returned with Outrageous Limit, who ran seventh in the Tacoma Handicap, and again with Sophie's Trophy, who finished third in the Washington Oaks.

Armstrong is back in force this year, as she brought her entire stable to Washington.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Bob and John, the winner of last year's Grade 1 Wood Memorial, is expected to make his first start as a 4-year-old Saturday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park.

"Right now, if all's well he's definitely coming," said Bob Baffert, who trains Bob and John for Stonerside Stable. "That's what we've been pointing for."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - An appeal by Stronach Stable and trainer Brian Lynch, whose Malakoff was disqualified and placed fifth after finishing first in the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie last July 16, has been denied by the Ontario Racing Commission.

The ORC ruling, released Friday following a hearing which took place March 28-30, finally confirms Shillelagh Slew, who had been moved up to first upon Malakoff's disqualification by the stewards, as the official winner of the $500,000 Prince of Wales.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott completed a sweep of the two turf stakes for 3-year-olds at the Keeneland spring meet when Moudez gamely fought off Bullara to win the 22nd running of the $112,100 Forerunner Stakes on a chilly Thursday afternoon.