The Aqueduct stewards ordered all Paraneck Stable-owned horses scratched from races on Saturday and Sunday after trainer Frank Amonte Jr. failed a drug test. Paraneck had four horses scratched on Saturday and was to have had two more scratched on Sunday.

While state steward Carmine Donofrio would not comment on the specific reason why the horses were ordered scratched, both Amonte and Ernie Paragallo, the authorized agent for the Paragallo-family run Paraneck Stable, confirmed Saturday that Amonte failed a drug test administered to him by the stewards earlier in the week.

Taking command soon after the start, Indigo Girl relaxed nicely under Kerwin Clark and captured Friday night's $75,000 Goddess Stakes at Evangeline Downs in front-running style. Culinary staged a modest rally to finish second, 6 1/2 lengths behind, followed by Ballroom Deputy, three-quarters of a length back in third.

The favorite, Precocious Kat, saw her four-race win streak come to an end as she turned in an even effort and finished fourth.

ARCADIA, Calif. - While durable racemare Ticker Tape has powered through a four-race winter campaign, lightly raced and top-class filly Argentina has been carefully managed and, until Sunday, well hidden.

meet Sunday at Santa Anita in the Grade 2 Santa Ana Handicap, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares that also includes another hard-working filly. Silver Cup already has won two graded stakes at the meet, and enters as the 118-pound topweight.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The Kentucky Oaks is out for Folklore. Trainer Wayne Lukas said Friday that Folklore, the 2005 champion 2-year-old filly, remains in light training, but will not run in the Oaks after wrenching a knee Jan. 16 in the Santa Ynez Stakes.

"We know we're not going to make the Oaks, so there is no need to push her," Lukas said.

Folklore won 4 of 7 last year, including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, and finished third in her only start this year in the Santa Ynez.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The always-deep Todd Pletcher stable dips into the bench to tap Fleet Indian and Tomorrows Lady for the Grade 3, $100,000 Next Move Handicap on Sunday at Aqueduct.

They face only three rivals on the final day of the Big A's inner-track season. Racing on the main track returns Wednesday.

Under ideal circumstances, Bohemian Lady is the horse Pletcher would send out in this 1 1/8-mile race for fillies and mares.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The fight for the jockey title adds an element of drama to the final weekend on the inner track at Aqueduct.

Eibar Coa and Ramon Dominguez are locked in a tight battle, with Coa leading, 101-97, through Friday. The inner-track meet concludes Sunday, and racing shifts back to the main track Wednesday.

The riding title would be the first in New York for either rider. Of the two, Dominguez is more excited about the battle.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - It has been 13 starts and 20 months since Request for Parole last visited the winner's circle, when he captured Monmouth Park's Grade 1 United Nations Handicap during the summer of 2004. Trainer Stanley Hough is hoping that streak will end when he drops Request for Parole back into the allowance ranks for Sunday's $46,000 feature at Gulfstream Park.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Nick Zito will run a horse in the $1 million Florida Derby. But it won't be Great Point.

Great Point's courageous second-place finish in the Grade 3 Holy Bull Stakes on Feb. 4 thrust him into the national 3-year-old picture. But Great Point, a son of Point Given banged an ankle leaving the starting gate and did not beat a horse one month later in the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth Stakes. He has yet to recover from the effects of that mishap.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - There are a number of reasons to like first-time starter on Sunday in the $50,000 Vulcan Stakes for 3-year-old registered Alabama-breds at Oaklawn Park.

For starters, he is bred by Bobby Pruitt.

"It's a strong recommendation," said Larry Robideaux Jr., who trains Ivor's Empire for Mary Anne Pruitt.

Bobby Pruitt has bred some quality Alabama-breds through the years, including Comalagold, who last fall upset top-class turf sprinter Nicole's Dream in the $40,000 Majorette Handicap at Louisiana Downs.

ALBANY, Calif. - Handicappers may only have to study the chart of one race as they make their decisions about playing the Golden Gate Fields feature Sunday.

On March 3, Gilded Bertrando, Panama Lane, Phil the Brit, and Slew a Soldier finished second, third, fourth, and fifth in a 1 1/16-mile allowance race. On Sunday, they meet again in a one-mile allowance race. Two new faces - Decathalete, who won the race held immediately after the one the other four ran in on March 3, and Cherokee Charlie - round out the field.