Picking a winner at Turfway Park has been impossible this week - but that has nothing to do with unplayable longshots or rotten handicapping luck.

The Florence, Ky., track canceled its live program again Friday, the third straight night that unusable track conditions had forced officials to cancel. Prevailing temperatures that have been hovering above and below the 32-degree freezing mark in recent days have left the racing surface in a perpetually uneven state, giving officials little choice but to cancel racing for the sake of safety.

By By JJ will make his first stakes appearance since winning the Grade 1, $1.9 million All American Futurity on Labor Day when he heads a full field of 10 3-year-old New Mexico-breds in the $125,000 New Mexico Horse Breeders Association Stakes at Sunland Park on Sunday afternoon.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The same ideal stalking trip that Second of June utilized in his breakout victory last month in the Holy Bull Stakes could be in the offing again Saturday, when Second of June meets Read the Footnotes and six others in the Grade 2, $250,000 at Gulfstream Park.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Wynn Dot Comma went into the Grade 3 Spectacular Bid Stakes less than 100-percent fit after missing three weeks of training due to a foot abscess, but he still came out a 1 1/4-length winner. On Saturday, enters the $150,000 Hutcheson Stakes in peak condition, and that does not bode well for his 10 rivals in the seven-furlong dash.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Gulfstream Park is putting on a 12-race card on Saturday, and it is worth making plans to be at the track from the start to the finish. The day begins with a second-level allowance race featuring the comeback of Champagne Stakes winner Birdstone, continues with the Hutcheson Stakes, and is topped by the Fountain of Youth Stakes.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Frank Brothers admits it's not the ideal situation to jump a horse into stakes company off a maiden win. He's hoping, however, Madcap Escapade will prove she's not just any horse when she takes on eight other 3-year-old fillies in Saturday's $100,000 Old Hat Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Five months after Victory Encounter and Valentine Dancer finished one-two in the Torrey Pines Stakes at Del Mar, they meet again in Saturday's $200,000 La Canada Stakes at Santa Anita. Since their first matchup, each filly's career has blossomed.

won the Grade 2 El Encino Stakes on Jan. 18 in her first start since the Torrey Pines.

In the Grade 2 La Canada over 1 1/8 miles, Victory Encounter and Valentine Dancer are opposed by six other 4-year-old fillies, all of whom have won or placed in stakes.

ARCADIA, Calif. - One day into a comeback from a two-month break caused by a spill, Julie Krone took off her mounts on Thursday and for the remainder of the week, citing a sore back.

Krone rode three horses at Santa Anita on Wednesday and was winless. She worked horses on Thursday at Hollywood Park before canceling her two mounts at Santa Anita. She said she plans to resume riding next Thursday.

"I tweaked my back," she said.

Krone suffered upper chest injuries in a two-horse spill at Hollywood Park on Dec. 12. She resumed exercising horses in early February.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Baldomera, a graded stakes-placed runner, holds an experience edge over six rivals in Saturday's $75,000-added Dearly Precious at Aqueduct, but her less seasoned competitors can't be dismissed too quickly, particularly Bohemian Lady and Among My Souvenirs.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - With horses in each of the three stakes run at Aqueduct this holiday weekend, trainer Gary Contessa won't have much time to kick back.

Wild Cee will try to get the weekend off to a good start for Contessa in Saturday's $75,000-added Dearly Precious. On Sunday, in the $75,000-added Hollie Hughes Handicap, Contessa will run Unswept. On Presidents' Day, Contessa will saddle the uncoupled entry of Golden Damsel and Dancen in the Sun in the $75,000-added Rare Treat Handicap.