LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Richard Mandella has won two of the first seven runnings of the Mamzelle Stakes and looks poised to win it again Thursday with Any for Love, who heads an 11-horse field entered in the $100,000 turf race at five furlongs.

, a 6-year-old Argentine-bred mare, enters the Mamzelle off a third-place finish behind top-class mares Etoile Montante and Dedication in the Grade 3 Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita. Prior to that, she reeled off back-to-back allowance wins going 6 1/2 furlongs. Thursday, she'll have to cut back to five furlongs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Last year, Sightseek registered her first career Grade 1 victory when she took the Humana Distaff at Churchill Downs on Derby Day.

Friday, Sightseek returns to Kentucky, where she will be heavily favored to win the Grade 2, $300,000 Louisville Breeders' Cup Handicap, one of five stakes on Friday's Kentucky Oaks undercard. First post Friday is 11 a.m.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The Eden will go from workout partner to important horses to perhaps a starring role himself in Saturday's $100,000 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park.

In recent months, The Eden has worked with two of trainer Jeff Mullins's top horses - Santa Anita Derby winner Castledale and impressive allowance race winner Choctaw Nation.

On Saturday, Castledale will attempt to pull an upset in the Kentucky Derby. The Eden will be making his U.S. stakes debut in the Inglewood Handicap.

The Arkansas Racing Commission on Tuesday reversed a decision by the Oaklawn Park board of stewards and disqualified Wild Spirit from second to third for interfering with Star Parade in the stretch of the $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap on April 3.

The decision, which could be subject to further appeal, was reached by a vote of 3-1, with one member abstaining. The appeal was heard by the commission at its headquarters in Little Rock, Ark.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - When a couple of allowance races in Kentucky failed to fill for graded stakes winner Aud, her trainer, Tony Reinstedler, went to plan B: Send Aud to New York for Saturday's $150,000 Beaugay Handicap at Aqueduct on the turf.

"This was pretty much a last-minute decision, but I think [the Beaugay] is a good opportunity to get her going," Reinstedler said Tuesday from Churchill Downs. "She's doing super."

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trainer Brian Koriner is usually not the nervous sort.

But after entries were taken Sunday for Thursday's card at Bay Meadows, he admitted he was anxious for Thursday to arrive.

Koriner has entered Please Lord in a six-furlong maiden race, and she will carry the hopes of many bettors. A $140,000 purchase at Ocala in March 2003, Please Lord missed by a neck in her debut at Golden Gate Fields, but the loss came in an allowance race and she earned an 88 Beyer Speed Figure. Because of these factors, Please Lord is expected to win Thursday.

Funny Cide and his connections were the big winners at an award ceremony for the top New York-breds of 2003 in Albany, N.Y., on Monday evening.

Funny Cide, who won last year's Eclipse Award for top 3-year-old male, was named New York-bred horse of the year by a group of New York turf writers. The gelding, who won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness for Sackatoga Stable, also was recognized as champion New York-bred 3-year-old male.

The New York Thoroughbred Breeders presented awards to Funny Cide's trainer, jockey, and breeder - Barclay Tagg, Jose Santos, and WinStar Farm.

Phil Heard has resigned as president and CEO of Hastings Entertainment Inc. Heard, who took over as CEO at Hastings in April 2000, said he was reluctant to give up his post but that it would be difficult for him to continue under the new management.

Great Canadian Gaming Corporation and Peter Wall bought Hastings Inc. from Woodbine for $20.1 million on April 8. Heard began his tenure under the Pacific Racing Association and was instrumental in the sale of Hastings Racecourse to Woodbine in 2002.

Blane Schvaneveldt, the 12-time national champion Quarter Horse trainer, heads the 2004 class announced for induction into the Racehorse Hall of Fame and the Hubbard Museum of the American West at Ruidoso Downs, N.M.

Also to be inducted during the June 12 ceremony will be the Schvaneveldt-trained Town Policy, legendary owner and breeder Spencer Childers, the Childers-owned Bunny's Bar Maid, and top stakes jockey Jerry Nicodemus.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Pretty much everyone is present and accounted for. In a year in which virtually every top 3-year-old filly in North America has remained free of illness or injury, a remarkable assembly of that talent will be on display here Friday in the 130th running of the Kentucky Oaks.

Twelve fillies were entered Tuesday in the Grade 1, $500,000 Oaks, led by Halfbridled, the 2-year-old filly champion, and Madcap Escapade, the Ashland Stakes winner who is unbeaten in four starts. They drew post positions 4 and 6, respectively, in the 1 1/8-mile race.