OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Several hours before Richard Migliore rode the 8-year-old Kazoo to victory in last Saturday's Grade 3 , he guided the 3-year-old Sunshine Alpine through his final major workout for this Saturday's Grade 3 Gotham Stakes.

Migliore was aboard Sunshine Alpine for a seven-furlong move that Aqueduct clockers timed in 1:26.83 over the inner track. Like several horses in this field, including possible favorite Keyed Entry, Sunshine Alpine will be making his first start around two turns in the Gotham, which this year will be run on the inner track at 1 1/16 miles.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Brother Derek, the nation's leading prospect for the Kentucky Derby, already has had his final prep for next month's Santa Anita Derby. His list of challengers should become more defined after this Saturday, when a field headed by Sham Stakes winner Bob and John competes in the Grade 2, $250,000 San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With one excusable exception, Heavenly Ransom has steadily ascended the class ladder, putting her on the precipice of graded stakes company. On Wednesday at Santa Anita, Heavenly Ransom will get a stern test to find out if she is ready to move into graded company, when she meets group stakes winners Movie Star and Toupie in the day's seventh race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Barclay Tagg brought the New York-bred Funny Cide out of relative anonymity to win the 2003 Kentucky Derby. Now three years later, Tagg is hoping lightning might strike twice after his lightly raced but extremely talented 3-year-old Showing Up won for the second time in as many starts while setting a track record in topping a strong field of entry-level allowance horses here Saturday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - On paper, Remarkable News is the horse to beat in Wednesday's $35,000 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park. But even trainer Angel Penna Jr. knows his horse cannot afford to make any mistakes in a very competitive field of nine older horses set to go 1 1/16 miles on the turf.

had his two-race win streak snapped when he finished a troubled third on Feb. 16, his first start in more than three months. That race was decided under the same second-level allowance conditions as Wednesday's main event.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Private Vow is good to go. A top-ranked Kentucky Derby prospect, he worked five furlongs in company at his Palm Meadows base in south Florida on Monday morning in his final major prep for the Grade 3, $300,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on Saturday.

Randy Morse knows his trainer cliches, but when referring to Jonesboro's most recent race, he can't help reaching into the bag for an old standby.

"You'll hear trainers say this all the time, but I've never had a horse train that good and run that bad," Morse said of Jonesboro's distant eighth-place finish Feb. 11 in the Essex Handicap at Oaklawn.

ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer hasn't had the best of luck in the Kentucky Derby, but he appears Louisville-bound with Cause to Believe, impressive winner of Saturday's California Derby.

Hollendorfer has trained two Kentucky Oaks winners, Lite Light and Pike Place Dancer, but his Derby experiences have not been nearly as pleasant.

In 1998, he had the likely favorite in undefeated Event of the Year, but eight days before the Derby the colt suffered a knee fracture.

Lost in the Fog, the champion sprinter of 2005, breezed five furlongs before Saturday's first race at Golden Gate Fields in 59.09 seconds, going easily. He galloped out well over the fast track and did not appear at all tired afterward. The work was the fastest of 21 at the distance on the day.

Trainer Greg Gilchrist said the Golden Gate Fields Sprint on April 22 remains the target for Lost in the Fog's 2006 debut.

Beginning Wednesday, Penn National Race Course will accept entries from horses stabled at Laurel Park, Pimlico, and the Fair Hill Training Center in Maryland, ending a ban on Maryland shippers in effect since late January.

Horses from Maryland will be permitted into the Penn National barn area as of midnight Thursday. The track had imposed a ban on Maryland-based horses because of an outbreak, since contained, of equine herpesvirus.