Remington Park will begin offering 10-cent superfecta wagering on its live races Friday in response to requests from patrons. The track is racing Quarter Horses, and the meet will continue through June 5.

The reduced-price wager will be available on straight bets, as well as wheel and box combinations. Remington will also accept 10-cent superfecta wagering on incoming simulcasts from tracks that offer the wager, including Lone Star Park near Dallas, a sister track that, like Remington, is owned by Magna Entertainment.

Sam Houston Race Park will offer 30 stakes worth more than $1 million during its annual Quarter Horse meet, which will open June 24. The 38-date season will run through Sept. 11.

Last year, Sam Houston ran 95 dates for Quarter Horses while picking up dates from Retama Park and Lone Star Park, which hosted the Breeders' Cup.

This year, the top stakes at Sam Houston include the Grade 1, $95,000-added MBNA Texas Challenge Championship on July 9 and the Grade 1, $100,000-added Sam Houston Futurity on Sept. 9.

Patrick Valenzuela made a rare visit to Turf Paradise a week and a half ago to take three mounts, and although he finished off the board in all three rides, he still managed to make quite an impression, particularly on young apprentice Kristina Kenney.

While Valenzuela has won a number of big races, including a Kentucky Derby, Kenney was making her career debut in the final race of the day on May 3 and admits to being a nervous wreck. Valenzuela, 43, the leading rider at the recently concluded Santa Anita meet, apparently sensed her anxiety and tried to help.

Most North American racetracks cap field size at 12. Lone Star Park, however, is willing to take 14 horses at a time. And even that might not be enough to fit in the prospective field for Saturday's Walmac Lone Star Derby.

ALBANY, Calif. - Thursday's feature race at Golden Gate Fields is really a sneak preview.

The 1 1/16-mile allowance race on the turf was written by racing secretary Sean Greely to provide a prep for runners being considered for the $100,000 Rolling Green on June 4.

Adreamisborn and Aly Bubba, second and third in the Grade 2 San Francisco Breeders' Cup Mile at Bay Meadows in their last start, signed up. So did stakes winner Handyman Bill, Irish import Addario, and Adreamisborn's stablemate Symphony Sid.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Danthebluegrassman might not win the feature race Thursday at Hollywood Park, but no starter is more qualified. Six older horses race seven furlongs in the three-other-than/optional $100,000 claimer, and Danthebluegrassman enters with solid credentials.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - On the chance that the pick six carried over again to the Thursday program at Churchill Downs, things stood to get really interesting.

A carryover of $471,588 awaited horseplayers Wednesday at Churchill after failing to be won on Kentucky Derby Day. At least two races with solid favorites were part of the pick six Wednesday, when the total pool was expected to soar well past the $1 million mark. If those favorites, and perhaps a couple of other logical horses, were to prevail, then the Thursday card figures to be, well, just another Thursday card.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The weather forecast for Thursday calls for showers ending early, followed by clearing. One would hope that predicting this sort of thing is easier than figuring out the results of the Kentucky Derby, because four of the races in Belmont Park's pick-six sequence are scheduled for the turf, including the featured $60,000 Voodoo Dancer Stakes.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Thursday's headliner appears to be a shootout between Provobay and Blush, both of whom graduated over the turf and will attempt to clear their first condition on the allowance ladder. A field of 10 will go in the $25,500 race, which is at about one mile on the turf, with the temporary rail set at 10 feet.

, trained by Gerald Romero, narrowly failed in her first start of the year after clearing the field early in an allowance over the Lone Star turf course last month. The result was a career-best 81 Beyer Speed Figure that is tops in Thursday's field.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Stakes-placed Quick in Deed will try to make short work of his seven opponents in Thursday's sixth race at Woodbine. The six-furlong event is the tougher split of a $62,800 allowance for Ontario-sired nonwinners of two.

Quick in Deed has hit the board in each of his four outings, all for trainer Abraham Katryan. He defeated a quality field in his debut Sept. 24 and then finished third in the restricted Bull Page Stakes behind Wholelottabourbon, who was Canada's champion 2-year-old in 2004.