Imahoneytoo is the one to beat when she faces eight other Ohio-bred fillies and mares in the $50,000 Bobbie Bricker Memorial Handicap at Beulah Park.

Imahoneytoo stretches back out around two turns in the 1 1/16-mile Bricker after closing to finish third, beaten three lengths by course specialist Just Michel, in the six-furlong Scarlet and Gray Handicap at Beulah two weeks ago.

Two starts back, Imahoneytoo tracked the pace to the stretch before rallying to score a 2o1/4-length victory in the $100,000 Best of Ohio Distaff going 1 1/8 miles at Thistledown.

Open Meadows is a triple threat, with stakes wins around one turn and two, on dirt and on turf. But there is one area where her resume could be expanded, and she can tend to that detail on Saturday in the $50,000 Ada at Remington Park.

"She's not a stakes winner against open company yet," said Jack Bruner, who trains Open Meadows for Tom Durant.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Bill Sorokolit-owned entry of Anna's Ballerina and Kain's Charm are both possibilities in Friday's Woodbine feature, a competitive 6 1/2-furlong allowance for fillies and mares.

It took Anna's Ballerina 11 starts to win her maiden, which is not all that surprising, since she is out of the late-blooming turf stakes winner, Ballerina Queen. She graduated going 6 1/2 furlongs on the Polytrack Oct. 21, earning a respectable 83 Beyer Speed Figure.

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans took another step toward recovery Tuesday when Fair Grounds Race Course opened up its backstretch to horses for the first time since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city on Aug. 29, 2005. As a small army of construction workers busily finished up repairs and tractors harrowed the racing surface, the first van-loads of horses shipping in from Keeneland settled into their refurbished stalls.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Wednesday provided a golden opportunity to see many of this year's Breeders' Cup starters for the first time since their arrival at Churchill Downs. Unfortunately, overnight rain that continued throughout the morning made training conditions less than ideal, although the turf course was open for business with the dogs set out past the middle of the course.

Most of the Europeans have cleared quarantine and either cantered or galloped over the turf and dirt. Only two horses had recorded works, both at three furlongs over the sloppy main track.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Atticus Kristy barely made it out of a gallop in his last race, but trainer Merrill Scherer is not discouraged. By returning to his favorite surface, the turf course at Churchill Downs, Atticus Kristy is eligible to rebound in a big way Friday, when he is part of an exceptionally deep field of turf-sprint specialists in the $250,000 Cherokee Run Stakes.

Javier Castellano rode Atticus Kristy when he finished sixth in his last start, the Oct. 22 Nearctic at Woodbine, and Castellano rides him again on Friday.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Two years ago, it would have taken much more money than it will take on Friday to purchase Swingn' Notes.

The 5-year-old mare makes her return to the turf in Friday's Bay Meadows feature, a $62,500 optional claimer for fillies and mares at one mile. Swingn' Notes, Slews in Demand, and Thrill After Dark are entered for a claiming tag in the field of nine.

Swingn' Notes, who graduated on the turf as a 2-year-old, will make her first start on that surface since a dull try in the Palo Alto here two years ago.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - What a difference five days makes. When the Grade 3, $100,000 Nashua Stakes was originally drawn for last Sunday, it contained six

2-year-old colts eligible for first-level allowance conditions.

The Nashua, along with its filly counterpart, the Tempted, was postponed because of dangerously high winds. The revised version of the Nashua expanded to a field of eight and got tougher with the additions of out-of-town invaders, Adore the Gold and Xchanger, both stakes winners.

Wave Carver will be favored on Friday to do something that his champion brother Ocean Runaway couldn't do last year - win the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Super Derby.

A year ago, 1-5 favorite Ocean Runaway finished second to Apollitical Time in the Los Alamitos Super Derby. The earner of $1.6 million, Ocean Runaway then set a Los Alamitos 400-yard track record in the Z. Wayne Griffin Directors' Stakes and won the Grade 1 Champion of Champions to secure the champion 3-year-old colt title.

There will be some star power in the house Friday night at Delta Downs. Grade 1 winner Meadow Breeze is set to make an appearance in the $100,000 My Trusty Cat, and the undefeated Tortuga Straits will vie for favoritism with Go Poppa Fooze in the $150,000 Jean Lafitte.

The races are two of four stakes on the program, which is called Jackpot Preview Night. The Jean Lafitte and My Trusty Cat, each for 2-year-olds, are expected to produce starters for Delta's richest races, the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Jackpot and the $300,000 Delta Princess. Both races will be run Dec. 1.