PHOENIX - A field of 10 older horses will contest the $40,000 Coyote Handicap at six furlongs Saturday at Turf Paradise, headed by top local sprinters Newark, Grimm, Cocoa Latte, and Palmerton.

The card will also include the $50,000 Glendale Handicap, which was postponed by rain last weekend. The Glendale, a 1 1/16-mile turf race, lured a field of 10, headed by 124-pound highweight Muir Beach, the best older female on the grounds. She has her work cut out for her, however, as she drew post 9.

The two stakes go as races 7 and 8 on a nine-race program.

Louisiana Downs has boosted the purse of the Grade 2 Super Derby to $750,000 for its 2005 running, and has also increased the distance of the race to 1 1/4 miles. For the past eight years, the Super Derby - the track's premier race - has been worth $500,000, and since 2002 it has been run over 1 1/8 miles.

The Super Derby will be run on Oct. 1, and be telecast live on ESPN.

Adam Kitchingman on Wednesday was announced as the fourth trainer at Santa Anita whose horses will be subject to a 24-hour quarantine, the result of one of his horses testing for a high reading of alkalizing agents, commonly referred to as a milkshake.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Rockport Harbor galloped 1 1/2 miles at Oaklawn Park on Wednesday in his second day back to the track after missing two days of training with a tender foot. Rockport Harbor is scheduled to work seven furlongs at Oaklawn on Friday, said trainer John Servis.

"I haven't been this happy since Derby Day," said Servis, who trained Smarty Jones, on Wednesday. "He's a happy boy, too."

, a top candidate for the Kentucky Derby, is undefeated in four career starts. He will make his seasonal debut in the Grade 3, $250,000 Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn on March 19.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Rock Hard Ten and Congrats, trainer Richard Mandella's two hopes for a third career win in the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap on March 5, had their final major workouts between races on Wednesday.

Taking advantage of the first day of dry weather since last week, Mandella watched the pair work seven furlongs in tandem over a wet-fast track. He later pronounced them ready for the richest race of the meeting.

ARCADIA, Calif. - After a week of wet weather, turf racing returns to Santa Anita on Friday with a program highlighted by a $65,000 allowance race for fillies and mares over 1 1/8 miles.

The allowance race has the feel of a consolation for two fillies who did not run in Monday's $150,000 Buena Vista Handicap after the one-mile race was moved from turf to dirt because of rain.

STICKNEY, Ill. - It is not the bugler's call, but the grinding of 120-foot-tall cranes dismantling a towering metal grandstand that greets opening day of the National Jockey Club at Sportsman's Park. The horses - they're next door at Hawthorne Race Course, where the National Jockey Club meet moved in 2003, and where it begins a 54-day run on Friday.

STICKNEY, Ill. - A railbird could get dizzy watching the Frank Kirby saddle towels buzz around the Hawthorne racetrack during February.

Kirby won the Arlington training title last summer and iced that cake by taking the Hawthorne title last fall, beating out Steve Asmussen both times. Thoughts that Kirby might slow down this year quickly drowned in his sea of morning trainees.

After yet another set of Kirby's horses galloped past the half-mile-pole gap late in training hours Tuesday, three days before the meet opens, Kirby was asked how many he'd worked that morning.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Pampered Princess was 5-1 and her stablemate Adobe Gold was 16-1 when they finished first and second last month in the Banshee Breeze Handicap. Despite their big efforts in that race, trainer Marty Wolfson knows his two fillies will be considered outsiders once again when they go up against Daydreaming in Saturday's Grade 3 Sabin Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Considering it is a winter weekday, Aqueduct's Friday card is solid, containing three allowance races for open company.

The most accomplished runners are in the fifth, a third-level $47,000 allowance sprint with an optional claiming price of $75,000 that drew seven older males, including the Scott Lake-trained entry of Tonic Nights and Curb.

The elder statesman is , an 8-year-old gelding who will be favored despite being the least experienced runner at six furlongs.