ARCADIA, Calif. - Good thing for trainer Bob Baffert he had a Plan B with Resplendency. He was going to run her in last week's Monrovia Handicap if it came off the turf, but the morning of the race, it still looked as though the race would remain on grass, so Baffert went ahead and worked Resplendency. Later that morning, the race was moved to the dirt.

ARCADIA, Calif. - There really is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. There is a pick-six carryover of $137,596.24 heading into Thursday's races at Santa Anita, courtesy of rainy weather last weekend that left the main track in sloppy condition and threw mud in the eyes of handicappers on Monday's holiday card.

Trainer Larry Jones never seems short on good fillies. Think graded stakes winners Island Sand, Josh's Madelyn, and Ruby's Reception.

Thursday, two of Jones's latest crop of fillies will be in action at the Fair Grounds meet at Louisiana Downs, when Gold Quarry and recent maiden winner Hoochie Glide start as separate interests in the featured 10th.

The optional claiming race is for 3-year-old fillies going 1 1/16 miles. There are seven in the field, and Gold Quarry, a daughter of Touch Gold, will be the shorter price of Jones's starters and could go favored.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Thursday's featured eighth race came up tough - so tough that the only horse in the field never to have run in a graded stake is the fastest one.

Among the six older males going 1 1/16 miles in this $58,000 allowance/optional claimer, Bahama John is the only runner with triple-digit Beyer Speed Figures on dirt, a feat he achieved in both of his 2005 starts - a big win in the mud last April and a close third in his recent return from a layoff.

Out-of-state simulcast bettors embraced Hawthorne Race Course's 2005 fall-winter meet, which concluded Monday, but the local fan base continued to erode, with an 11-percent drop in ontrack handle during the season.

After firing off eight consecutive wins in New Mexico, Mr. Trieste takes his show to the Fair Grounds meet at Louisiana Downs, where he will make his graded stakes debut in Saturday's $400,000 .

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trainer Greg Gilchrist was happy to greet an old friend this week when Lost in the Fog returned to his barn at Golden Gate Fields.

Lost in the Fog got two months' rest and relaxation at the Southern Chase Farm in Florida, where he grew up, following his seventh-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Sprint, which snapped his 10-race winning streak. His Beyer Speed Figure of 98 also snapped his streak of triple-digit Beyer Figures at 10.

Jockey Jorge Chavez is expected to be sidelined from six to eight weeks after fracturing his collarbone when he was thrown from his mount in Monday's 12th and final race at Calder. Chavez, who needed to win the race to tie Manoel Cruz for the 2005 Tropical-at-Calder riding title, will not require surgery.

ARCADIA, Calif. - No one hit the pick six on a soggy Monday at Santa Anita, so there is a carryover in the pick six to Thursday's card of $137,596.24.

There is no racing at Santa Anita on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Thursday's races begin at 1 p.m. Pacific time. There is an eight-race card, with the pick six beginning with the day's third race. Post time for that race should be about 2 p.m. Pacific time.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The sloppy track at Santa Anita on Monday sucked the left front shoe right off of With Distinction, but even with three shoes, he persevered to outlast Jungle Prince and Jet West in a driving, three-horse finish, in the Grade 3, $112,100 .