Golden Glen is spotted to perfection Saturday in the $40,000 Outlook at Delta Downs. Second in the Grade 3 Oklahoma Derby in his stakes debut last out, he finds a race restricted to horses who have never won a stakes, and should rule as the favorite in a full field of 10.

"He's needing to run, and hopefully we picked the right spot," said Bobby Barnett, who trains Golden Glen for Stony Oak Farm.

The Outlook is a one-mile stakes for 4-year-olds and upward. Special first post for the card on Saturday is 2:15 p.m. Central.

PHOENIX - Newark might have found the waters too deep in the Grade 3 Vernon O. Underwood at Hollywood Park Dec. 5, but returning to his backyard of Turf Paradise will be a heavy favorite in Saturday's $40,000 Cactus Wren Handicap. Newark carries highweight of 126 pounds, taking on six other Arizona-breds at 6 1/2 furlongs.

The Cactus Wren is the third race on a nine-race card that also includes the $21,000 Ocean Bay (race 8) for fillies and mares over 7 1/2 furlongs on the turf.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - Those who liked the chances of Above the Wind in last season's Pelican Stakes were rewarded with a $132.40 win payoff after he won the six-furlong sprint by a length. While the final result of Saturday's Pelican renewal may well be the same, Above the Wind figures to have much more support at the windows when he tops a field of 14 runners entered in the $60,000 New Year's Day feature.

ALBANY, Calif. - Friday's Golden Gate Fields feature looks like a replay of a race held Dec. 8.

Four of the six fillies entered in the $50,000 optional claimer at six furlongs met Dec. 8.

Luisathebeachhouse ran second behind Yerevan Star that day. She finished 1 1/4 lengths ahead of Beezer, whom she had dead-heated with for the win in her previous start. Beezer was a nose in front of Princess Lianna on Dec. 8, with My Charmian three lengths behind in fifth.

NEW ORLEANS - Things haven't been the same for Colonial Colony since he won the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap at Churchill Downs at odds of 62-1 on June 12. Suddenly the 6-year-old son of Pleasant Colony had jumped from allowance company to the upper echelons of the handicap division.

NEW ORLEANS - Dallas Stewart had every reason to smile Wednesday morning outside of barn 4 on the Fair Grounds backstretch. He had just watched his string of in-form runners go through their morning exercises as they prepare for the next three months of competition in Louisiana and beyond.

Stewart, who won 13 races at Fair Grounds during the 2003-04 meet, has already won seven races here and has a few more in his immediate sights.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Bill Spawr looked out the window of his stable office on a rainy Wednesday morning and cursed his luck.

Hoping to start Market Garden on turf in Friday's $100,000 Monrovia Handicap, Spawr knew that persistent rain was hampering the chances of the race to stay on Santa Anita's hillside turf course.

"Right this second, there is no chance," he said. "I can't see the other barn across the way."

ARCADIA, Calif. - Two days of near-constant rain wreaked havoc with training schedules at Santa Anita on Tuesday and Wednesday and led to the cancellation of turf racing on Wednesday and Thursday.

The storyline could be the same through the weekend. With rain forecast for Friday and Sunday, there is concern that the turf course may not be used this week, or will be used sparingly.

Three of four stakes this week are on turf - Friday's Monrovia Handicap on the hillside turf course, and Saturday's Hill Rise Stakes and San Gabriel Handicap.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - When Lord Langfuhr ended his 3-year-old campaign with a 10 1/2-length maiden score over the inner track last December, it was a harbinger of things to come.

gets a chance to end a very productive 4-year-old season with his first stakes win on Friday when he faces nine fellow New York-breds in the $75,000 Alex M. Robb Handicap at Aqueduct.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Tamburello was shipped from Chile to North America earlier this year in order to be sold. When several proposed sales fell through, New York-based trainer Michael Miceli assumed ownership of the 5-year-old gelding.

There may be renewed interest in Tamburello following the Chilean-bred's decisive 3 3/4-length victory in Wednesday's $82,700 at Aqueduct. Despite a nine-day holiday break and a pleasant afternoon weather-wise, a crowd of only 2,779 attended the races.