Gulfstream Park has ceased its simulcast operations and closed its card room until further notice, the track announced Friday. Tickets, Gulfstream's new sports bar and show room, will also be closed after the NBA's Eastern Conference championship round ends on Friday or Sunday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine has introduced a new stakes race surveillance program, which will first be applied to the $1 million Queen's Plate on June 25.

Woodbine also plans to use the program for the July 23 Northern Dancer, Sept. 17 Woodbine Mile, and the Oct. 22 Canadian International and E.P. Taylor.

MIAMI - Trainer Marty Wolfson entered two horses, Broadway View and Mister Fotis, in last Monday's Grade 3 Memorial Day Handicap but ran neither. Wolfson scratched Broadway View early in the day and Mister Fotis several hours before post time.

Don't be surprised if Cat Criminal blossoms into a stakes-caliber 3-year-old in the near future.

Making only his second career start and racing for the first time since recovering from a fractured hind ankle, Cat Criminal crushed his competition by 10 3/4 lengths in a two-turn maiden race on Memorial Day at Delaware Park. His impressive performance going 1 1/16 miles was worth a Beyer Speed Figure of 98.

On the day when her former high school classmates were preparing for graduation ceremonies, Rosie Napravnik rode two more winners at Pimlico.

"I didn't even realize they were graduating tonight," said Napravnik when reminded last Friday that it was graduation day at Hereford High School in Baltimore County.

The $40,000 Rise Jim Stakes is the main event on the live racing program anchoring Sunday's Hot Dog Safari at Suffolk Downs.

With Sprinkle of Gold and Reprized Strike matching up in the six-furlong sprint, the Rise Jim features a clash between the last two winners of the Norman Hall Stakes for statebred juveniles, which Reprized Strike captured in 2004 and Sprinkle of Gold won last year.

CHICAGO - Silver Bid keeps himself occupied between starts munching oats and hay, whinnying, looking around at stuff - you know, being a horse. It's trainer Joel Berndt who spends time looking over his shoulder, wondering how long this can last.

Silver Bid is 8, but except for a whitening gray coat, you wouldn't know it. After briefly slowing during the second part of last year, Silver Bid has come back into form in 2006, and heads into the summer atop, as usual, the Illinois-bred sprint division.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Plate Trial traditionally is the local prep of choice for the $1 million Queen's Plate, which will be run this year on June 25 here at Woodbine.

This year's running of the $150,000 Plate Trial goes Sunday, with a field of eight set to compete over 1 1/8 miles.

While the focus will be on stakes winners Edenwold, Atlas Shrugs, Thinking Out Loud, and Pyramid Park, the others will be looking to take a larger step up toward the Plate.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Florida-based trainer Myra Mora, instead of returning to Calder Race Course, shipped 11 runners here to Fort Erie after the Tampa Bay meet ended.

Her friend and fellow-trainer Bruce Anderson instigated the change. Anderson competes at Tampa and here.

"He ran a horse for me here two summers ago," said Mora. "I decided to try Finger Lakes, but it didn't work out there for me. I took most back to Florida but I sent two to Bruce to train here. He raced one at Woodbine and had one start here."

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Ericka's Lass, one of two stakes winners in the field, will have to be at her best if she hopes to repeat in the $40,000 La Verendrye here at Assiniboia Downs on Sunday. The six-furlong La Verendrye has drawn a field of eight fillies and mares.