PORTLAND, Ore. – Derby Rider will race for the first time since winning the Portland Meadows Mile when he takes on six rivals in Monday’s feature, a $7,800 invitational handicap at 1 1/16 miles.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Aqueduct canceled its live racing cards for Saturday and Sunday due to a winter storm that dumped a dangerous mixture of ice, snow, and rain on the Metropolitan area. Aqueduct also canceled Friday's card due to the storm.

Aqueduct remained open for simulcasting on Saturday and was to remain open for simulcasting on Sunday as well.

The Grade 3, $100,000 Cicada Stakes scheduled for Saturday will be run next Saturday. It will be open to all original nominees and re-drawn on Thursday.

Live racing is scheduled to resume on Wednesday with a 1 p.m. post.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Time’s Mistress overtook pacesetter and favorite Devil House on the final turn and went on to a 4 3/4-length win in the $100,000 Honeybee Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Oaklawn Park on Friday. High Heels rallied for second, finishing 2 3/4 lengths in front of third-place finisher Grace Happens.

Devil House, who was seeking her sixth straight win, finished fifth in the Honeybee.

NEW ORLEANS - At the end of the 2004-05 meet, the first season of Churchill Downs Inc.'s stewardship of Fair Grounds, track president Randy Soth noted that the meet should end with a big event rather than peter out after Louisiana Derby Day. Track management accordingly has lined up a series of stakes races for the final weekend of the meet, which is next weekend. Thursday and Friday feature smaller restricted stakes for Mississippi-owned horses and Alabama-breds; Saturday's and Sunday's cards each feature five stakes races.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Classify, the winningest horse of the Oaklawn meet with three victories here since January, will likely move into stakes company for her next start, said her trainer, Steve Asmussen. A 3-year-old filly, Classify has not lost at the meet, winning her maiden here Jan.o21, a $75,000 optional claimer on Feb. 15, and a $100,000 optional claimer on March 11.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Who knows what will happen in the War Emblem Stakes, a 3-year-old route race on Sunday at Hawthorne, but Shannon Ritter, the trainer of likely favorite Quite Acceptable, already had anxious moments over the race.

Racing officials at Turfway Park are expecting a full field for their signature event, the Lane's End Stakes, the Grade 2 race set for next Saturday at the Florence, Ky., track.

NEW ORLEANS - At the end of the 2004-05 meet, the first season of Churchill Downs Inc.'s stewardship of Fair Grounds, track president Randy Soth noted that the meet should end with a big event rather than peter out after Louisiana Derby Day. Track management accordingly has lined up a series of stakes races for the final weekend of the meet, which is next weekend. Thursday and Friday feature smaller restricted stakes for Mississippi-owned horses and Alabama-breds; Saturday's and Sunday's cards each feature five stakes races.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Price Tag did not arrive on these shores until late last fall, after the Breeders' Cup, so her chances of competing for a championship were slim. But she should be in the mix this year, judging not only by her victory in the Matriarch Stakes last fall, but by the ease with which she came back to the races on Friday at Santa Anita.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Adore the Gold got back to serious business at Gulfstream Park on Friday morning, working five furlongs in 1:00 under exercise rider Carlos Reyes.

The bullet drill was his first since finishing fourth in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth on March 3 and one of two works penciled in before his next start in the $1 million Florida Derby on March 31.