HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Adore the Gold served notice that he'll be a force to reckon with in the $1 million Florida Derby after he worked five furlongs in 57.74 seconds here on Saturday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - It was considered an upset when the 6-1 Hal's Hope won the 2000 Florida Derby. But it will be a shocker to most observers if the Rose Family Stable can do it again next Saturday with another of its homebreds, Hal's My Hope, who figures to go postward among the longest prices on the board in this year's edition of the $1 million Florida Derby.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Jorge Lara came to Oaklawn Park this winter with the intent of helping his longtime boss, trainer Cole Norman, win his seventh straight title at the track. But less than a month into the meet, Lara moved into the role of trainer of most of the horses that were in Norman's care, and under difficult circumstances he is now making his own bid for the title at Oaklawn.

With Bay Meadows closing at the end of the year, a hole on the Northern California racing calendar will need to be filled. The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday refused to give the track a two-year waiver on installing a synthetic surface, and the track said it won't seek dates for next year.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Summer Doldrums, the beaten favorite in last month's Gotham Stakes, worked six furlongs in 1:15.30 Friday morning over Aqueduct's inner track in preparation for a start in next month's Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial.

ARCADIA, Calif. - On Friday morning, two days before Jon Court was scheduled to receive the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in a ceremony at Santa Anita, he had yet to sit down to write a speech. But it was very much on Court's mind.

"Maybe I ought to put together some notes," he said. "I've got more to say than probably the allotted time."

ARCADIA, Calif.-There is a pick six carryover of $113,848 for Friday's eight-race program at Santa Anita.

The program begins at 1 p.m., with the first pick six race, the third race, going off at 2:03 p.m. Pacific. The pick six comprises three races on turf and three on the main track.

The third race is an allowance race on the hillside turf course, which has drawn a field of six. Summer News, who breaks from the rail, will be favored.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A horse that was favored in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, was second by a head in the French Derby, and was a three-time stakes winner in Europe starts in Saturday's $200,000 San Luis Rey Handicap at Santa Anita - and might be a longshot.

Prospect Park's achievements occurred in 2004 and 2005, a long time ago in racing. Since arriving in the United States in the fall of 2005, Prospect Park has made just one start, finishing fifth in an allowance race over 1 1/8 miles on turf on March 3.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - The California Horse Racing Board voted 4-2 on Thursday to deny a request by the Bay Meadows Racing Association for a two-year waiver on installing a synthetic racing surface.

The decision means that Bay Meadows, which opened in 1934, will close after this year, said Bay Meadows president Jack Liebau.

"For racing in California, this is a day of infamy," Liebau said. "Racing in Northern California will never exist as in the past. You're going to have

horses, owners, and trainers leaving."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Lawrence the Roman, a 3-year-old son of Point Given who briefly flirted with the Triple Crown trail, has been retired after developing a problem in a knee, his connections said Thursday.

Lawrence the Roman will attract a lot of interest as a stallion, not because of his race record or his pedigree, but because of a unique concept his owner, Lawrence Roman, plans to put together.

Roman said that he will pay people to breed to Lawrence the Roman, provided he approves of the mare.