GROVE CITY, Ohio - Beulah Park is gambling on the weather in an effort to lure simulcast dollars as it begins its 75-day winter-spring meeting Saturday afternoon.

Beulah has front-loaded its racing days for the meeting, which concludes May 7, scheduling five days per week in January and February. The move is an attempt to take advantage of the lack of other tracks running nationwide during that time. One potential problem for the central Ohio track is the harsh winter weather that may force cancellations.

Legs O'Neal, who has been chasing top-class Louisiana-bred Happy Ticket, finally gets away from that one Saturday night in a competitive edition of the $50,000 Camelia at Delta Downs in Vinton, La.

The seven-furlong race will be run around two turns, and it is restricted to fillies and mares bred in Louisiana. Others in the race include stakes winners Kylers Midge and Misty Glo, and wire-to-wire threat Where Is My Daddy.

Cat's Cat won the last time she raced six furlongs on dirt - in 2002. She will get back to those conditions Saturday night in the $40,000 San Felipe at Sam Houston Race Park. The race for fillies and mares drew nine, including leading contenders Racing Sundown, Joyce Ann, So Sorry, and Questionable Past.

Back in 2003, Bob Baffert unleashed a Panamanian hotshot on the Southern California 3-year-old ranks. A second by a head in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby sent Indian Express to Churchill with dreams of glory and roses. However, at 10-1, Indian Express was never a factor in the Kentucky Derby, finishing 14th of 16, and came out of the race with an injury.

Few things made Cotton Fitzsimmons happier than beating the Los Angeles Lakers.

So it's only fitting that in the race renamed in honor of Fitzsimmons, the late former coach and executive of the Phoenix Suns and a fixture at the Turf Paradise turf club, some tough Southern California invaders will line up against the Phoenix contingent.

Two-time Quarter Horse champion Ab What a Runner will make her first start since Sept. 25 in the Grade 1, $137,550 Charger Bar Handicap on Saturday night at Los Alamitos

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Like everybody else, trainer Angel Penna Jr. will have to wait another day before finding out if Mr. Light owns the world record for running one-mile on the turf.

Mr. Light was credited with a final time of 1:31.41 when he won Monday's finale over the new Gulfstream Park turf course. That would break the existing record of 1:31.63, set by Elusive Quality at Belmont Park in 1998. But many fans and horsemen have doubts that the clocking - which came in an allowance race - is valid, including Penna, who trains Mr. Light for owner Earle Mack.

HALLANDALE BEACH - Who's going to claim a 7-year-old mare coming off a 7 1/2-month layoff from a Hall of Fame trainer like Allen Jerkens for $50,000?

That question was answered at Calder three weeks ago, when there were no takers for Lilah, who won an optional claiming race by five lengths while running a 97 Beyer Speed Figure, only 1 point shy of her career best.

The next question is, Who is willing to claim an 8-year-old mare coming off a near career-best performance from a Hall of Fame trainer like Allen Jerkens for $75,000?

One day into the first year of the rest of his training life, Steve Asmussen was on pace to win 2,775 races in 2005.

Try this twisted logic: Asmussen won one race on Jan. 1, 2004, and 554 more the rest of the year, smashing Jack Van Berg's single-season training record and vaulting into the race for an Eclipse Award. Asmussen rang in this New Year with five winners, four at Fair Grounds alone last Saturday afternoon, tying a track record. At five times the strike rate, 555 becomes 2,775.

NEW ORLEANS - Janeian will attempt to exact revenge on My Misty Princess in Friday's feature race at Fair Grounds, a $36,000 optional claimer for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on the grass.