NEW ORLEANS - The Dallas Stewart-trained Psych may hold a slight edge when a full field of 12 4-year-old fillies clash in Monday's feature race at Fair Grounds. The first-level allowance will be run at six furlongs and promises to be a good betting race.

Psych, a 4-year-old daughter of Mazel Trick, finished third to Gold Margarita as the odds-on choice in her first start over the track and has never been off the board in five lifetime starts. She will be ridden by the track's leading jockey, Robby Albarado.

The final six races of Aqueduct's Saturday card, including the $75,000 Count Fleet Stakes, were canceled when the jockeys refused to ride, citing unsafe track conditions.

The Count Fleet, New York's first stakes of the year for 3-year-olds, was rescheduled for next Saturday and will be open to original nominees. It will be redrawn Thursday.

Track superintendent Jerry Porcelli said the inner track absorbed six-tenths of an inch of rain Saturday and was sloppy to start the day. Porcelli declined to comment further.

Second of June shipped to Gulfstream Park from his base at Calder Race Course on Saturday and worked a mile in 1:39 with jockey Cornelio Velasquez aboard. It was the first time Second of June had been to Gulfstream since his second-place finish in the 2004 Fountain of Youth Stakes.

The Ohio River reached flood stage in the Cincinnati area on Friday, forcing River Downs to close its racebook indefinitely.

Although no more rain is forecast for southwestern Ohio until Tuesday, the Ohio River is expected to continue rising, cresting at an estimated 56 feet, four feet above flood stage.

Both ends of Kellogg Avenue leading to River Downs are closed to traffic because of flooding. According to track publicist John Engelhardt, officials hope to be able to reopen River Downs for simulcasting by Thursday.

NEW ORLEANS - Crimson Stag turned in a determined performance Saturday at Fair Grounds to win the $75,000 in front-running fashion over Zarb's Music Man.

Jockey Robby Albarado used a slightly different strategy with Crimson Stag than in previous races, sending the 4-5 favorite to the lead out of the gate. Zarb's Music Man broke alertly, then was taken back to last by jockey E.J. Perrodin.

ARCADIA, Calif. - It will be wet and miserable if runs Sunday, unusual conditions for the return of the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner. Her trainer, Julio Canani, can spin it how he wants, but admits, "I wish the rain would go someplace else."

Seven fillies entered the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel Stakes, and everyone is asking the same question - will Sweet Catomine run on a wet track?

"Yes, she's going to run," Canani said Friday. "I prefer to find out now if she likes mud or not. She trains good in the mud."

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The size of the purses does not justify the quality of the fields that will compete at Gulfstream Park in Sunday's Ft. Lauderdale and Marshua's River stakes, turf races each worth $60,000.

Both 1 1/16-mile races drew full fields of 12, and many entrants have more lucrative goals in mind this winter, including the two rich grass races on Sunshine Millions Day, Jan. 29.

NEW ORLEANS - The $60,000 Colonel Power Handicap, Sunday's six-furlong feature at Fair Grounds, lost a little of its star power when two of the expected runners, Beau's Town and Mountain General, didn't show up at entry time. But the race still will provide the best matchup so far this meet, when Gold Storm and Clock Stopper, who both ran in the Breeders' Cup Sprint, take on Thanksgiving Handicap winner Ole Rebel, stakes winner Nebraska Moon, and speedsters Artemus Sunrise and Spooky Mulder.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Bushwacker's attempt to play the spoiler in the Grade 1 Hollywood Futurity last month did not last into the stretch. His saddle slipped on the backstretch and jockey Rene Douglas pulled him up on the last turn.

Sunday, Bushwacker will have the role of the top contender when he faces a much easier field in the $100,000 San Miguel Stakes over six furlongs at Santa Anita.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The California Horse Racing Board has cleared the way for Patrick Valenzuela to return to competition, ruling on Friday that he will be allowed to apply for a jockey's license. Valenzuela has not ridden since July after being suspended for failing to take a hair follicle test, part of a drug screening process.

It is not clear when Valenzuela will be able to ride because of the licensing process, which could take a week or longer. Valenzuela, 42, is hopeful of riding as soon as possible.

"I'm ready," he said in a telephone interview. "I'm so ready."