OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Ghostzapper was not the only Frank Stronach-bred and owned 4-year-old who went 4 for 4 in 2004. Saintliness, a daughter of Holy Bull, won all four of her starts, albeit in lesser company than her Breeders' Cup Classic-winning stablemate.

Saturday, Saintliness will put her undefeated record to the test when she makes her stakes debut in the $75,000 Affectionately Handicap at Aqueduct. The Affectionately, run at 1 1/16 miles over the inner track, shares billing with the $75,000 Count Fleet Stakes, a race for 3-year-olds that was postponed from last Saturday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - John Zimmerman said More Smoke didn't show enough in the mornings to run him for anything higher than a $25,000 claiming price in his debut last October. Now, Zimmerman considers himself fortunate he didn't lose the colt.

More Smoke won his debut and has gone on to win twice more from three additional starts, including the Dancing Count Stakes at Pimlico on New Year's Day. Now, More Smoke will try to give Zimmerman his first win at a New York track when he runs in Monday's $75,000 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Nick Zito has won two Kentucky Derbies and last year sent out Birdstone to capture both the Belmont and Travers. But when it comes to 3-year-olds, Zito can be a ladies man as well.

In 2003, Zito won the 3-year-old filly championship with Birdstone's older sister Bird Town. This year he may have another top contender in that division with In the Gold, a daughter of Golden Missile, who got her 3-year-old campaign off to a good start with a first-level allowance victory on Thursday.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - A strange thing happened to Mogador in Calder's Grade 3 Tropical Park Handicap. He did not hit the board.

had finished in the money in each of his first nine career starts, but he was a fast-closing fourth after encountering brief traffic problems in early stretch in the Grade 3 Tropical Turf. A son of Danzig, he will attempt to bounce back when he faces 11 rivals in Saturday's $60,000 Lure Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

MIAMI - A group of about 60 Calder-based horsemen gathered at the track Thursday morning to voice their concerns over a variety of issues, with the focus of their attention centered on some of the practices and decisions made by the current leadership of the Florida Division of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.

Penn National Race Course will advance $4 million to supplement purses in anticipation of the introduction of slot machines as part of a new seven-year contract with the Pennsylvania chapter of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association.

The agreement, announced Thursday, was ratified by track management and representatives of the horsemen.

The last time Coronado Rose was seen in the winner's circle, she made history. She lifted Steve Asmussen to a North American record for victories in a year by a trainer on Nov. 20, when she surged to a neck win in the $40,000 Delta Belle at Delta Downs.

Tidal Wave, a 5-year-old with 25 lifetime starts, has only run once in a stakes, finishing third in a $35,000 sprint at Suffolk Downs in January 2003.

Although Tidal Wave's credentials are modest compared to some of his competitors' in Saturday's $50,000 Native Dancer at Pimlico, he does possess one important quality the others lack.

OLDSMAR Fla. - Quiet Optimism, a pace factor in both the Pocahontas and Grade 2 Golden Rod Stakes at Churchill Downs in her last two starts, returns to a sprint distance on Saturday, and leads a field of 14 3-year-old fillies in the 26th running of the $60,000 Sandpiper Stakes.

Quiet Optimism left the winless ranks in her fourth start at Ellis Park, then came back and finished fourth in the Ellis Debutante in her first start against winners.

The roller coaster that Dean Sarvis has ridden in a career that spans nearly two decades has reached perhaps its highest point. The 36-year-old jockey rode five winners Wednesday night at Turfway Park, and with a succession of prime mounts awaiting him through the end of the Turfway meet in early April, he is loving life like never before.