ARCADIA, Calif. - Patrick Valenzuela seeks to widen his five-win lead in the jockey standings Thursday at Santa Anita, where he is named to ride five horses, including Dreams Come True in the seventh-race feature.

Nine fillies and mares entered the 1 1/8-mile turf race, a two-other-than allowance. It is a race Dreams Come True can win with slight improvement over her U.S. debut. Bobby Frankel trains the 4-year-old Dreams Come True, who won 2 of 7 in France before a promising runner-up finish in her first start in the U.S.

ARCADIA, Calif. - An ambitious winter racing schedule that included three graded stakes wins has not derailed the Santa Anita Handicap winner Rock Hard Ten. Only a month after his March 5 Big Cap triumph, Rock Hard Ten is quickly picking up the tempo. He worked an easy half-mile in 49.40 seconds Tuesday for trainer Richard Mandella, who marveled at the colt's recovery from his winter program.

"I thought I'd need to send him to the ranch, but he went to eating 12 quarts of oats and putting on weight," Mandella said.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Lord Albion is not the best horse running at Bay Meadows on Thursday.

That designation may go to Healthy Addiction, who will go in the day's feature race, a $50,000 optional claimer for fillies and mares at one mile.

may not even be the best horse in the $16,000 one-mile claimer he is entered in.

But Lord Albion, a 7-year-old gelding stepping up with a two-race winning streak, has become one of the most respected runners on the grounds. He is an iron horse, making his 24th start, for his fifth barn, over a two-year period.

Due to severe storms in the Acadiana region, Evangeline Downs Racetrack & Casino made the decision to cancel its racing for Monday, April 11, 2005. Racing resumes Thursday night, April 14th, as scheduled.

ARCADIA, Calif. - In the aftermath of Sweet Catomine's fifth-place finish as the favorite in the last Saturday, her owner and trainer have split, and the California Horse Racing Board has filed a complaint against owner Marty Wygod for alleged violations of three racing board rules.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - It has all the makings of a classic sprint. A flashy speedster with an outside post will try to kick clear of a never-say-die grinder with an inside draw when the $200,000 Vinery Madison Stakes is run Wednesday at Keeneland.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Nearly every probable starter for the 81st Blue Grass Stakes had his final prerace blowout Sunday or Monday, including a five-furlong drill by the probable race favorite, Sun King.

Sun King, with Maxine Correa aboard, went five furlongs Monday in 1:00.80 over a fast Churchill Downs surface. Sun King is one of at least six 3-year-olds expected to start Saturday in the $750,000 Blue Grass at Keeneland.

"He works very, very even, which is a great attribute that he's got," said trainer Nick Zito, who oversaw the work. "I like what he's doing right now."

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Pick a horse, any horse.

The field for the Grade 3, $100,000 Fifth Season Breeders' Cup at Oaklawn Park on Wednesday is so competitive, a case can be made for each of the eight entrants. Absent Friend should go off as a slight favorite in the 1 1/16-mile race, which is part of the track's Racing Festival of the South.

The festival is a program of nine stakes run over the final six days of the meet, which concludes Saturday with the $1 million Arkansas Derby.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Rockport Harbor, who missed training because of a blood clot, will pass the Arkansas Derby on Saturday and make his next start in the Grade 2, $325,000 Coolmore Lexington at Keeneland on April 23.

Rockport Harbor worked seven furlongs in company in 1:25.60 on Sunday morning under jockey Stewart Elliott. Before he leaves for Kentucky, which trainer John Servis said will be either Sunday or Monday, Rockport Harbor will work here once more.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A pick six carryover of $179,222 and an intriguing meeting between two improving older horses are the highlights of Wednesday's eight-race program at Santa Anita.

Awesome Dividend and Courtly Jazz risk three-race winning streaks when they meet for the first time in a $60,000 optional claimer. Both Awesome Dividend and Courtly Jazz are undefeated at this meeting. They have four other rivals in the one-mile sixth race.

The pick six covers races 3-8, a series that consists of five races at a mile or longer and one sprint on the hillside turf course.