MIAMI - For the first time since early May, a name other than Cruz sits atop the Calder jockey standings after red-hot apprentice Jermaine Bridgmohan kicked off the Tropical at Calder meeting with a hat trick on Monday. The Calder meet ended Sunday.

Bridgmohan, who finished ninth in the standings during the Calder session despite not accepting his first mount until three months into the meet, figures to give Manoel Cruz a run for his money to defend the Tropical title that he won last season by a single victory over Jorge Chavez.

Dontbotherknocking has been unbeatable over Remington Park's turf course the past two years, and on Friday night he will attempt to push his local record to 4 for 4 when he defends his title in the $100,000 Remington Green.

The 1 1/16-mile turf race is one of five undercard stakes supporting the $250,000 Oklahoma Derby. Together the races are worth $675,000, making the program the richest of the meet at Remington.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland has become the first American track to make public the tracking and recording of the precise footage a horse actually runs in a race. As of Wednesday, the track is regularly displaying the results of the Trakus technology that computes those numbers shortly after the running of each race.

ARCADIA, Calif. - After a seven-week break, apprentice jockey Martin Garcia has quickly regained a place among the top riders in Southern California.

Garcia, who finished among the leading riders at the Hollywood Park and Del Mar meetings during the summer, returned from a suspension and a wrist injury on Thursday. He had not ridden since the first week of September at Del Mar.

On Friday's Oak Tree card at Santa Anita, Garcia has mounts in five of the eight races, including Wakanda in a $42,000 allowance race on the hillside turf course.

The makeup of Friday night's $250,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park is somewhat unusual as its top three contenders, Louisborg, More Than Regal, and Sensational Score, are all closers. They are dependent on pace, something that could be lacking in this year's running of the 1 1/8-mile race. With the expected scratch of Master of Disaster, there appears to be no dominant speed in what will become an 11-horse field, a situation that might place greater demands on the three favorites.

"It's going to make some difference," said Tony Richey, who trains Louisborg.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Relaxed Gesture and Meteor Storm, the one-two finishers in last year's $2 million Canadian International, arrived here at Woodbine early Wednesday morning for their rematch in Sunday's Grade 1, 1 1/2-mile turf feature.

Relaxed Gesture, trained by Christophe Clement, vanned up from Belmont along with stablemate Naissance Royale, who is slated to run in Sunday's Grade 1, $1 million E.P. Taylor for fillies and mares.

The Grade 2, $84,780 Southwest Challenge and the $35,540 West/Southwest Juvenile Challenge, the final two stakes of the 2006 regional Challenge series, will be contested at Turf Paradise on Sunday.

The winners of those two stakes will be the final two qualifiers to their respective stakes during the Challenge Championships at Lone Star Park on Nov. 11.

Tricky Dust should be favored to secure his seventh straight win when he starts in Saturday's $60,000 Herman Jefferson Stakes, an 870-yard race at Zia Park.

The defending Herman Jefferson winner, Tricky Dust's six-race winning streak includes five stakes, all at 870 or 1,000 yards, and he has been the odds-on favorite in his latest four starts.

Governor's Cup Derby winner Wave Carver and 2005 champion 2-year-old Higher Fire head the three trials to the Grade 1, $700,000 Los Alamitos Super Derby on Friday evening.

Wave Carver has developed into a premier 3-year-old at Los Alamitos with a win in the Grade 2 Governor's Cup and seconds in the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby and the Grade 1 Golden State Derby. Those two runner-up finishes are his only defeats from six 2006 starts.

Cole Norman makes winning look easy, but to secure his ninth straight training title this meet at Louisiana Downs he had to overcome significant personal adversity. Not only was Norman healing from a broken neck sustained last December, but he also was in a car crash in May, then watched his wife, Tamara, undergo neck surgery in September.