INGLEWOOD, Calif. - With a stable that numbers approximately 120 runners, trainer Doug O'Neill should be at the top of the standings at Southern California tracks.

O'Neill, 37, won his second consecutive title at the Santa Anita winter-spring meeting that ended Sunday, accenting his title with a stakes double on Saturday.

The Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting opens Wednesday, and O'Neill will have a good indication in the first week of how his stable will fare between now and the end of the meeting, July 16.

CALGARY, Alberta - Kaylee's Magic captured two trophies at the Night of Champions last Saturday evening and narrowly missed a third for Donver Stable and trainer Greg Tracy. Kaylee's Magic was a unanimous selection in the juvenile fillies division after winning three stakes. She was also voted horse of the year and finished second to Beau Brass in a close vote for Alberta-bred horse of the year.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Barclay Tagg wants to return to the Kentucky Derby. It's a just a matter of whether his horse, Showing Up, will let him.

Showing Up came out of his victory in Saturday's Lexington Stakes with a puncture wound to his right foreleg. Tagg said the area has been treated with antibiotics and flushed out and, as of Monday morning, was in decent shape. However, Tagg's experience has taught him that "all of a sudden that thing can get infected and take off on you and then you're in big trouble," he said.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - After finishing second to Bandini going a one-turn mile, Halos Sailing Sain will benefit from a return to two turns Saturday in the Grade 3, $300,000 Texas Mile at Lone Star Park, according to his trainer, Joe Orseno.

The one-mile race is the richest of three stakes here Saturday. It will share a card with the $75,000 Grand Prairie Turf Challenge for 3-year-olds, and the $50,000 JEH Stallion Station for fillies and mares bred in Texas.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In the 70-year history of Keeneland Race Course, an apprentice has never won a riding title.

The end of that drought may be imminent. Julien Leparoux, the 22-year-old Frenchman who leads North American riders in wins this year, holds a four-win lead over his closest pursuers atop the Keeneland standings heading into the final three days of the spring meet.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Todd Pletcher decided that filling the big shoes of John Velazquez was going to require a lot of patchwork. So Pletcher went outside the proverbial box, and the result was a major move atop the North American riding colony.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Santa Anita recorded sizable gains in attendance and handle for its 86-day winter-spring meeting that concluded on Sunday, benefiting from a relatively dry winter and large crowds on two of its biggest days.

The track reported an all-sources average handle of $11.6 million on Santa Anita races, an increase of 9.3 percent over the 2004-05 meeting. Ontrack, the average daily handle was $2,245,531, a gain of 11 percent from last year.

The Louisiana State Racing Commission approved Monday the 2006-2007 racing dates request submitted by Fair Grounds Race Course, returning racing to New Orleans after a year's absence.

With the track damaged and New Orleans evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in September, Fair Grounds held an abbreviated 2005-2006 meet at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City.

The Fair Grounds meet will as usual begin on Thanksgiving - Nov. 23 this year - and run through March 25.

Atlantic City Race Course will hold the first of four all-turf live racing cards on Wednesday. First post is 3 p.m. for the seven-race card.

The meeting, which is one of the more unusual on the U.S. racing calendar, consists entirely of four live racing days: Wednesday and Thursday this week and next. Betting on the races will be available only at the racetrack, which has not held a significant live meet for 10 years but is open year-round as a simulcast facility.

ALBANY, Calif. - Jockey Dennis Carr is coming off the most eventful week of his riding career.

He won the 2,000th race of his career, rode Carthage to victory over Eclipse Award winner Lost in the Fog, was handed a five-day suspension, won a second stakes on Sunday, and then survived Ruttini's fatal breakdown with only a bruised right shoulder.

Carr won his 2,000th race in Thursday's fifth aboard Joan Elle, and he didn't even realize the significance of the victory until he was handed a sign that commemorated the event for the winner's circle photo.