OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Roy and Gretchen Jackson have already made their reservations for Louisville, Ky. They're just not sure how many will be in their party.

The Jacksons, who race under the Lael Stables banner, are the owners of Barbaro, who assured his status as one of the favorites for the May 6 Kentucky Derby by winning last Saturday's $1 million Florida Derby. The Jacksons also own Showing Up, who will try to earn a position in the Derby starting gate when he runs in Saturday's Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Brother Derek, the current favorite for the Kentucky Derby, is impressing those closest to him, and those who are considering facing him, as he heads into the Grade 1, $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on Saturday. He came out of his final work on Sunday so well that on Monday he walked under tack, instead of having a day off. And he has scared away all but a handful of serious contenders. As of Monday, only six other 3-year-olds were scheduled to face Brother Derek in the Santa Anita Derby, California's final major prep for the May 6 Kentucky Derby.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Before Brother Derek dominated attention in the Dan Hendricks stable, Runaway Dancer was the main attraction.

A gray gelding, Runaway Dancer won the 2003 Carleton Burke Handicap and the 2005 Jim Murray Memorial Handicap at Hollywood Park, turf marathons that suited his late kick.

The win in the Jim Murray came on the day Brother Derek won his maiden. In the winner's circle after Runaway Dancer won, Hendricks said he was equally excited about Brother Derek's win.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Arousing makes her first start against winners in a $53,000 allowance race at Santa Anita on Wednesday. If she runs well, Arousing could start in the $150,000 B Thoughtful Stakes for statebred fillies and mares at Hollywood Park on Aug. 30, one of the major stakes on the California Gold Rush program.

Owned by Harris Farm and Don Valpredo, Arousing is by Cee's Tizzy and is out of Soviet Problem, the runner-up in the 1994 Breeders' Cup Sprint.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - The anticipated rematch between Round Pond and Happy Ticket is not a given. Trainer John Servis on Monday said he and Rick Porter, the owner of Round Pond, are contemplating whether or not they will run Round Pond in the Grade 1, $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap at Oaklawn Park on Saturday.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Elliecat is the one to beat and Chukkaluk is the one to fear on Wednesday in the featured ninth race at Oaklawn Park. A six-furlong starter allowance, the race is restricted to fillies and mares who have started for a claiming price and who have never won two races. A win by either Elliecat or Chukkaluk will make a March 9 starter a key race. The sixth-place finisher from that race, Two Dime Limit, came back to win here Sunday.

Sweetnorthernsaint will race next Saturday in the Illinois Derby at Hawthorne rather than the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, and will ship from his home base at Laurel Park to Chicago by van on Tuesday, trainer Mike Trombetta said Sunday.

Trombetta said he had picked out the Illinois Derby because it offered Sweetnorthernsaint a better chance to pick up graded stakes earnings he could need to get into the Kentucky Derby.

"The long and short of it is I'm down to crunch time in terms of graded money," Trombetta said.

Apprentice Emma-Jayne Wilson, Woodbine's leading rider in 2005, picked up right where she left off last year by bagging a triple Saturday, opening day of the Woodbine meeting.

Wilson took the fourth race Saturday aboard Shes the Real Deal. She also won on If Moma Aint Happy in the sixth and Whirly Carol in the seventh.

ALBANY, Calif. - Two new local stakes stars flashed on the scene over the weekend at Golden Gate Fields.

One was expected: Smokey Stover, who won the Stinson Beach overnight stakes on Sunday. One was unexpected: Eleanor Rose, who upset Somethinaboutlaura in Saturday's $100,000 .

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Stormy Destin showed a new dimension on Sunday, when she rallied from off the pace for a five length win over Rachelsarompin in the $50,000 at Oaklawn Park. It was another two lengths back in third to Downthedustyroad.

The Rainbow Miss was one of two restricted stakes for 3-year-old horses bred in Arkansas on the card. Heart Appeal won the $50,000 Rainbow and paid $47.60.