OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Eibar Coa joined a select group of riders Friday, when he recorded his 300th win of the year on the New York Racing Association circuit.

Coa became just the fourth rider to accomplish the feat, joining Angel Cordero and Mike Smith - who both did it twice - and Steve Cauthen, who set the NYRA single-season record for wins with 433 in 1977. Coa's 300th victory came aboard Significant Other in Friday's fourth race, and his 301st and 302nd wins came later on the card, aboard Sir Tyler T and Spooky Mulder.

ALBANY, Calif. - Sierra Nights has yet to do a thing wrong in two starts.

She'll try to win her third straight start in Sunday's Golden Gate Fields feature, tackling seven rivals in a first-level allowance race for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles.

Trainer Gennadi Dorochenko claimed Sierra Nights for $20,000 out of her Oct. 20 debut. He stretched her out to 1 1/16 miles in a starter allowance, which she won with ease.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A well-connected uncle seeks revenge on his niece's family after they stole fame and fortune from him in New York. Sounds like a plot for an upcoming episode of "The Sopranos."

Well, it sort of is. It is also the storyline for Sunday's $65,000 Alex M. Robb Handicap at Aqueduct, where Carminooch seeks to avenge a one-length loss to Accountforthegold in last month's Grade 3 Stuyvesant Handicap.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With an interrupted preparation schedule and modest form in Europe, Valbenny was somewhat ignored in the Grade 3 Miesque Stakes at Hollywood Park on Nov. 25.

That changed in the final furlong. Valbenny caught everyone's attention when she rallied from 10th in a field of 12 to win the one-mile turf race by three-quarters of a length.

"It was a pleasant surprise," trainer Paddy Gallagher said.

PHOENIX - So far it has been a walk in the park for R Big Stuff to prove he's the best juvenile Arizona-bred in training. He gets a chance Sunday to show he's the best 2-year-old on this circuit overall when he leads a solid field of 10 2-year-old males in Turf Paradise's Lost in the Fog Juvenile at 6 1/2 furlongs.

The $50,000 stakes, formerly called the Arizona Juvenile, was named in honor of the 2005 champion sprinter who set a course record in the 2004 Arizona Juvenile and died earlier this year from cancer.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Strong Contender and Sweetnorthernsaint, two of the top 3-year-olds on the 2006 Kentucky Derby trail, will help get the 2007 Gulfstream Park meeting off to a fast start when they square off Saturday in the Grade 3 Hal's Hope Handicap.

NEW ORLEANS - Royal Copenhagen will top a strong field in the $75,000 Furl Sail Handicap for fillies and mares Sunday at Fair Grounds, but only if it is run on the grass. The race is scheduled to be run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf course, but the forecast of rain could move it to the main track.

Winner of the Grade 3 Pucker Up at Arlington Park last year, Royal Copenhagen is part of a string of horses sent by Chicago-based trainer Chris Block to Richard Scherer at Fair Grounds.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The veteran gelding King's Drama has raced in so many marathons the past three seasons that 1 1/8 miles in the Grade 2 San Gabriel Handicap is a mere sprint.

The "short" distance might be reason to consider King's Drama, the 121-pound highweight, vulnerable Sunday in the $150,000 San Gabriel at Santa Anita. Or not.

Distance "is not a problem," trainer Bobby Frankel said about King's Drama. "He was a miler when I got him [from Europe]. The only reason I stretched him out was money."

PORTLAND, Ore. - Tall Pines will attempt to regain her winning ways when racing resumes at Portland Meadows on Sunday after the Christmas break. Tall Pines heads a field of five in the $20,000 City of Roses Handicap for fillies and mares at a mile.

Colonial Downs has cut the purse for its Grade 3 Colonial Turf Cup from $1 million to $750,000 for the 2007 meet and will put the $250,000 difference into overnight purses.

"It was a matter of sitting down, as we do periodically, with our horsemen and figuring out how we want the 2007 meet to look," said Ian Stewart, Colonial Downs president and chief financial officer. "Everybody recognized that we probably needed to increase overnight purses, and the decision to cut the Colonial Turf Cup purse was part of that compromise."