OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Liquor Cabinet captured the first stakes victory of his career Saturday, and the way he won the Grade 3, $109,800 Aqueduct Handicap suggests there may be more in his future.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Trainer Nick Zito will move Ice N Lemon to the turf on Tuesday, when the once promising colt makes his comeback in the optional claiming feature at Tampa Bay Downs. The 1 1/16-mile turf race offers a second-level allowance condition.

Buddy Winnett Jr., who has been riding quite a few of Zito's runners here the past few weeks, will be aboard Ice N Lemon, who makes his first start since August. Now 4, Ice N Lemon has a series of five workouts over the local strip in preparation for Tuesday's race.

NEW ORLEANS - Tiz Wonderful is unlikely to run in the Kentucky Derby after suffering a minor tendon injury that will sideline him indefinitely, trainer Steve Asmussen said Saturday.

"He rapped his right fore, and we're going to give him some time off. How much, I don't know," said Asmussen. "Right now, we're just going to walk the shedrow with him for a while until hopefully everything gets better."

Asmussen indicated that Tiz Wonderful would probably not be ready to run in the Kentucky Derby.

NEW ORLEANS - Monday's feature at Fair Grounds drew a pair of horses who showed ability early in their careers but who are now working on comebacks after being sidelined for lengthy periods by injury.

Well Said and Sorcerer's Stone, both four years old, will meet at 1 1/16 miles in a third-level optional claimer, but once upon a time they ran against some of the better horses of their generation.

NEW ORLEANS - Fair Grounds has suffered from a steady barrage of rainstorms in recent weeks, causing a number of turf races to be switched to the main track and creating cards built around dirt sprints that barely fill.

Sunday's card is a case in point. With rain in the forecast, the feature is an entry-level allowance for older fillies and mares, which drew a field of six. Four of the entrants having been racing with allowance company, and two are claimers whose trainers see an opportunity to land a chunk of the video poker-enhanced $44,000 pot.

PHOENIX – One day after Against the Law tries to reestablish herself atop the local 3-year-old filly pecking order in the Sun Devil, R Big Stuff will try to do the same in Sunday’s $40,000 Rattlesnake. A one-mile event for 3-year-olds, the Rattlesnake lured a field of 10.

ARCADIA, Calif. - If Boboman is a legitimate Grade 1-caliber turf horse, he will win the Grade 2, $150,000 San Marcos Stakes on Sunday at Santa Anita. But the San Marcos is not easy, and even though he is a Grade 1 winner, Boboman does face issues.

The San Marcos, run at 1 1/4 miles, drew a deeper field than the Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup that Boboman won last month, and before he establishes himself as undisputed division leader, Boboman must outrun three well-regarded Bobby Frankel trainees.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - The 1-horse won the first race at Oaklawn Park, and for the large, loud crowd that turned out for the track's first day of a 56-date meet on Friday, it was on. Oaklawn's opening day is a major social scene in Arkansas, and temperatures around 45 degrees and cloudy skies did little to deter 20,070 patrons from turning out for a card in which Irish Dreamer upset the featured $50,000 Dixieland Stakes, race 8.

All-sources handle on the nine-race card topped $4.5 million.

DEL MAR, Calif. - In the stable area parking lot at Del Mar racetrack, Kevin Gregory is conducting a science project. He has got individual piles of sand, rubber, and two types of fibers. Every other day, a big tanker truck filled with liquid wax pulls up. On those days, from morning until night, Gregory repeatedly mixes all the ingredients in an oversized green cylinder and produces a finished product that Del Mar racetrack is hoping will help quiet years-long concern regarding the safety of its main track.

NEW ORLEANS - It was a dank, misty afternoon at Fair Grounds and the light was already failing as the mud-spattered horses and jockeys returned following Thursday's seventh race, but 16-year-old apprentice jockey Joe Talamo III was beaming like a sunny day in June. Talamo had just ridden his third winner of the day, and his mount, Flambeau Man, was now undefeated in four starts at the meet. It was the kind of scene that has become commonplace this season, as Talamo turns the race for leading rider into his own special coming-out party.