TORONTO, Ontario - Leroidesanimaux's tour de force in last September's Atto Mile at Woodbine has been assigned a rating of 124 to top the 2005 edition of the Canadian Thoroughbred Ratings.

The purpose of the Canadian Thoroughbred Ratings, compiled by Woodbine's vice president of Thoroughbred racing, Chris Evans, is to rate the relative abilities of horses who raced in Canada last year, based on their single best performance.

Any horse who raced in a stakes in Canada is eligible for consideration, with a minimum rating of 90 the cutoff.

CHICAGO - A shakeup late last week has altered the management structure both of Hawthorne Race Course and Hawthorne National LLC, Hawthorne's loose merger with the National Jockey Club, with Thomas Carey out as president and general manager of Hawthorne Race Course.

Carey, who became director of operations at Hawthorne in 1999, resigned last Friday "to pursue other opportunities," according to Jim Miller, Hawthorne's director of publicity and assistant general manager. Carey is the son of Thomas Carey II, who preceded him as Hawthorne's president at GM.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A two-day pick-six carryover of $751,394 will overshadow the $75,000 as the focus of Wednesday's program at Santa Anita.

Wednesday's card will be the 11th in the first 31 racing days of the winter-spring meeting to include a carryover, and the second card with a two-day carryover.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The third-place finish by the 2005 Kentucky Derby winner, Giacomo, in Saturday's Strub Stakes at Santa Anita may have disappointed many of the ontrack crowd of 20,263, but not trainer John Shirreffs.

Making his first start in nearly eight months, Giacomo rallied from 10th in the field of 11 to finish third, five lengths behind the impressive winner, High Limit. The Strub result was something of a preview of the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 4, a race that will also feature the Strub runner-up, Top This and That.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - This time last winter, Harlington was among trainer Todd Pletcher's top Kentucky Derby prospects. But an ankle injury put an end to those dreams before they really got too far off the ground.

On Wednesday, will continue his comeback when he goes off as the solid choice against nine rivals in a third-level optional claiming and allowance race at Gulfstream Park. The race offers a $37,000 purse and is carded at 1 1/8 miles.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Generals Matz, Pletcher, Brothers, and Zito have happily reported that all their young troops returned safe and sound from Saturday's battles and should be ready to resume the fight for the right to invade Louisville, Ky., on the first Saturday of May.

Barbaro returned well from his three-quarter-length victory over Great Point in the 1 1/8-mile Holy Bull Stakes, said his trainer, Michael Matz, on Monday. The win was the first over the main track for Barbaro and kept his record perfect in four career starts.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - While all the focus regarding New York-based 3-year-olds has been on Achilles of Troy, owner Ernie Paragallo isn't totally convinced that the steel gray son of Notebook is the best 3-year-old in his barn.

Paragallo, who heads the family-owned Paraneck Stable, is equally as high on Scanlon's Song, who won his maiden most impressively on Jan. 28. Paragallo is considering running both 3-year-olds in Saturday's $65,000 Whirlaway Stakes at Aqueduct, the second two-turn race for 3-year-olds run this winter in New York.

ALBANY, Calif. - Golden Gate Fields opens its 65-day spring meet Wednesday with a different look to its stakes schedule. The meeting ends May 7.

For the first time, every stakes is worth at least $100,000, highlighted by the Grade 2, $400,000 San Francisco Breeders' Cup Mile on April 29. Each of the meet's three Grade 3 races - the All American on Feb. 20, the Golden Gate Fields Handicap on March 25, and Yerba Buena on May 7 - will have a purse of $150,000.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Bay Meadows's thrilling jockey race not only went down to the last day but also to the last race. When apprentice Martin Garcia brought Sloat Blvd home 1 1/4 lengths in front of Bear Cub in the ninth and last race Sunday, it gave him 47 victories and a tie for the title with Russell Baze.

For Baze, the title is his 27th straight at Bay Meadows. He also has won the title the past 35 Bay Meadows meets in which he has ridden. It is the first riding title anywhere for Garcia.

Don Rice, a six-time leading trainer at Tampa Bay Downs, has been suspended and ruled off the track for 30 days after two of his horses tested positive for excessive alkalizing agents, Tampa officials said Monday.

Rice, who has saddled six winners this year from 72 starts, is also facing an additional six-month suspension because a third sample from one of his horses has also tested positive, according to Margo Flynn, a spokeswoman for Tampa. Additional confirmation tests are being conducted on the third sample, Flynn said.