INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Wilko, the winner of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile, was found to have a quarter crack in his left front foot on Friday, the day before a scheduled start in Saturday's Grade 1 .

Trainer Craig Dollase said that Wilko was "95 percent" likely to start in the Hollywood Futurity, where he could clinch the Eclipse Award for outstanding 2-year-old with a victory.

Dollase said the quarter crack was diagnosed after Wilko returned from a gallop on Friday morning. Dollase said the foot would be soaked and patched on Friday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It has been nearly three months since the connections of Declan's Moon decided to bypass the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and instead wait for Hollywood Park's fall stakes races, the Prevue and the Futurity. Since then, "everything's just gone totally according to schedule, which is rare," said Ron Ellis, who trains Declan's Moon.

Declan's Moon won the Prevue handily, then came back to work to Ellis's satisfaction.

"The race worked out like we hoped, in terms of the type of race he ran, and the way he came out of the race," Ellis said.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Trainer John Shirreffs played the role of upsetter last weekend, when Hollywood Story won the Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap at Hollywood Park.

This weekend, Shirreffs will have the same role in lucrative races over 1 1/16 miles when Giacomo starts in Saturday's $449,500 and Kenza runs in Sunday's $300,000-estimated Hollywood Starlet. Both horses are owned by Jerry and Ann Moss.

Both starters deserve respect, particularly Kenza, who placed third in a division of the Miesque Stakes on turf last month.

MIAMI - Trainer Graham Motion had modest expectations for his two long-distance grass specialists in this year's Breeders' Cup but came way with a win in the Turf with Better Talk Now and a second-place finish in the Filly and Mare Turf with Film Maker.

On Saturday, Motion brings three other of his long-distance grass specialists to Calder, where the prospects look bright for Dr. Brendler in the $200,000 and Humaita in the $200,000 La Prevoyante Handicap. Motion will also start Colonial Bay in the McKnight.

MIAMI - Which Medallist will show up for Saturday's $100,000 Kenny Noe Jr. Handicap at Calder? Will it be the one who earned Beyer Speed Figures of 110 and 112 winning the Grade 2 Dwyer and Grade 3 Withers Stakes earlier this year? Or the same horse who has been beaten a combined 40 lengths in his last three starts?

Even trainer Allen Jerkens is not sure what to expect from Medallist, one of many contenders in a strong field of sprint specialists for the seven-furlong Kenny Noe.

Investigators with the Arizona Department of Racing and the Department of Public Safety raided several barns at Turf Paradise in Phoenix on Wednesday, confiscating undisclosed substances from seven of them, according to the director of the track's racing department, Geoffrey Gonsher.

Citing an ongoing investigation, Gonsher would not identify the drugs that were found or the trainers whose barns were raided, but said the drugs would qualify as controlled substances. Approximately 15 barns were searched, Gonsher said.

Remington Park in Oklahoma City closed out its 65-date Thoroughbred meet Dec. 5 with gains in attendance and handle.

Remington handled an average from all sources of $364,030 daily on its live races, an increase of less than 1 percent over last year, while average daily attendance was up 2.7 percent to 1,589. Daily purses at the track rose 9.9 percent to $83,000, and the average field size was 9.4 horses, up from 9.0 in 2003.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Most horses are no longer still running at age 8, much less running at their best. Black Silk is not like most horses.

Black Silk had a record of 3 for 40 when the year began. Sunday, he could be among the top three betting choices when he starts in the Grade 3, $100,000 Gravesend Handicap at Aqueduct, the last graded stakes to be run in New York this year.

Tim Smith, the former president of the National Thoroughbred Racing Association, will head a group next year that will issue recommendations to legislators on how to best structure racing in New York.

PORTLAND, Ore. - A field of 10 2-year-old Quarter Horses, including a pair of stable couplings, will vie for a purse of $59,000 in Saturday's renewal of the Far West Futurity Finals at 400 yards.

Jazzn Boots and One Fast Trick, who won the two fastest trials run here on Dec. 4, will likely compete for favoritism.