INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The stakes sweep that trainer Paddy Gallagher scored on the weekend of Oct. 21-22 at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting has been one of the highlights of his year. On Oct. 21, Berriestoheaven won the Anoakia Stakes for 2-year-old fillies, followed a day later by Dilemma's win in the Sunny Slope Stakes for 2-year-olds.

Both of those sprint stakes were preps to races at Hollywood Park this weekend. Dilemma will start in Saturday's $100,000 Hollywood Prevue Stakes, while Berriestoheaven will return in Sunday's $100,000 Moccasin Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Strike Softly completed a productive campaign Sunday with an emphatic victory in the $151,200 Jammed Lovely here at Woodbine.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The contrast in styles between Cavallo Pazzo and Tuffertiger is a compelling aspect of Wednesday's $47,000 allowance feature at Aqueduct.

Both horses have earned Beyer Speed Figures of 90 or better in their last two races, but have done so with radically different strategies. Cavallo Pazzo, unbeaten in two starts this year, raced on or very close to the pace in his victories at Delaware Park. Tuffertiger is a drop-back sprinter who would appreciate a lively early pace.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Bai and Bai returned from a six-month layoff to win her turf debut in the Palo Alto Handicap at Bay Meadows last Saturday, encouraging trainer Bill Delia to consider trying her in some major races.

Among the stakes under consideration for the California-bred Bai and Bai are the Grade 1 La Brea at seven furlongs for 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita in December and the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Santa Anita Park in January.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Anyone without a Daily Racing Form or simulcast program might have wondered why Julien Leparoux wasn't back riding Sunday at Churchill Downs after serving a three-day suspension for a riding infraction.

Leparoux hadn't taken an extra day off - he was in California to ride favored Grande Melody to a third-place finish in a $60,000 stakes at Hollywood Park for his mentor, trainer Patrick Biancone. But when Churchill resumes action Wednesday following a two-day break, Leparoux will be back on familiar ground, accepting mounts in eight of the 10 races.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Legal Move hasn't made many wrong moves of late, and will seek his third straight stakes victory Wednesday at Woodbine in the $125,000 Frost King, a seven-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired 2-year-olds.

Legal Move was second or third in each of his first three outings over three different surfaces, all in maiden special company. He graduated easily in the Sept. 4 Simcoe Stakes, for graduates of local yearling sales, winning with a 79 Beyer Speed Figure.

The pick six was too difficult for bettors to conquer on Saturday and Sunday, resulting in Wednesday's massive carryover. The pick six covers the third through eighth races on a program that begins at 12:30 p.m. Pacific. Harvard Avenue goes in race 7.

Harvard Avenue's quick return is not a major concern for trainer Doug O'Neill, but he said he was not always targeting Wednesday's race.

The racing office "hustled me in there," O'Neill said. "But the horse is doing great."

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - A horse shortage, triggered by an outbreak of equine herpesvirus at Monmouth Park, badly hurt business at the Meadowlands Racetrack meet that concluded Saturday night.

Average ontrack handle at the 33-day meet was $265,424, a 28 percent plunge from 2005. Combined handle, including all wagers on Meadowlands races from simulcast and offtrack locations, fell 12 percent, to $1.64 million. Attendance averaged 3,298 per card, a decline of 19opercent from 2005.

Rocky Gulch became the first New Mexico-bred Thoroughbred to surpass $1 million in earnings on Sunday, when he outgamed El Minuto for a neck win in the $212,100 New Mexico Cup Classic at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M. 

The race was one of 11 stakes run on the $2 million New Mexico Cup card. There were seven races for Thoroughbreds and four stakes for Quarter Horses on what was the richest day of racing at Zia.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A sequence of longshots at Hollywood Park on Sunday has led to a two-day carryover of $541,201 for Wednesday's eight-race program.

An upset win by Turks Rebecca ($60.20) in Sunday's seventh race and Citronnade ($12.40) in the eighth race helped create the carryover.

Wednesday's program begins at 12:30 p.m.