The revolving door that has been the filly and mare turf division this season at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La., will take another spin Saturday when 118-pound highweight I'm the Business joins 10 others looking for their first stakes win at the meet in the $40,000 Old South Handicap.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Saturday's $100,000 California Sprint Championship, a six-furlong race for Cal-breds, often serves as a prep for the Cal Cup at Santa Anita. This year's race has attracted a varied group of seven, ranging from Chataquos' Choice, a moon-shooting 3-year-old who just won his maiden in a claiming event, to 10-year-old millionaire Men's Exclusive.

If Island Fashion runs in Saturday's Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park, handicappers can look solely for a filly to use underneath her in the exacta.

With Island Fashion out of the equation, however, the Grade 2, $250,000 Cotillion for 3-year-old fillies would become much more difficult to analyze.

Trainer Barclay Tagg and owner Jeffrey Nielson appear to be leaning toward running Island Fashion, easy winner of the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks and Grade 1 Alabama during the summer, against older horses in Saturday's $750,000 Beldame at Belmont Park.

ANDERSON, Ind. - Will the winner of this year's Grade 3, $400,000 Indiana Derby follow in the hoofprints of the race's previous winners?

Orientate won the 2001 Indiana Derby and went on the next season to earn the Eclipse Award as the nation's top sprinter. Last year's Indiana Derby winner was Perfect Drift, who has established himself as one of the leading handicap horses in the country.

The year's Indiana Derby has lured a pair of promising runners, Wando and Grand Hombre, who seem to stand above the other nine entrants in the 1 1/16-mile race.

CHICAGO - It would have been nice if Keeping the Gold would have had a bit more racing luck in the Pucker Up Stakes on Sept. 13 at Arlington. The Pucker Up is a Grade 3, and a graded stakes placing is a gold star on the credentials of any filly that might turn into a broodmare. There were 12 horses in the Pucker Up, and several of them got in Keeping the Gold's way as she rallied in the stretch. She wound up fifth, beaten only a couple lengths, and might have been second with a clean run.

GROVE CITY, Ohio - Ohio's best statebreds will square off Saturday when Beulah Park hosts the 17th annual Best of Ohio Championships.

The championships consist of five stakes in various divisions, with a total of $330,000 in purses up for grabs. The Best of Ohio has rotated annually between Thistledown and Beulah Park since 1999.

Ashwood C C may be the most accomplished horse on the Best of Ohio card. A 5-year-old daughter of Cryptoclearance, Ashwood C C is the two-time defending champion in the $60,000 Distaff Championship.

Saturday night will be a celebration of Texas racing's past and a look at its future during the annual Texas Hall of Fame program at Retama Park near San Antonio.

The memories begin with inductions into the Texas Hall during a late afternoon gala, while the future will be told on the track a few hours later, when some of the state's top 2-year-olds compete in two $125,000 divisions of the Texas Stallion Stakes.

EAST BOSTON, Mass. - In true New England fashion, the region's horsemen took to the streets Thursday along the historic Freedom Trail and onto the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse to demonstrate in the hopes of getting slots at the tracks and saving their jobs.

The rally was designed to attract sympathy from state legislators who will take up gaming bills over the next six months - bills that could decide if Thoroughbred racing continues in the region after next year.

MIAMI - Chispiski has been nearly unbeatable at 6 1/2 furlongs throughout her career, and she should be tough to catch, even in a formidable field of fillies and mares, when she seeks to defend her title in Saturday's $75,000 U Can Do It Handicap at Calder.

It's common for a 16-year-old to be granted a driver's license, but rare for someone that young to be accredited to train racehorses.

Take it from Carl O'Callaghan, it can be done.

In 1992, O'Callaghan arrived in New York from his home in County Clare on Ireland's west coast. Looking for a job, he went to the racetrack, which seemed a natural starting point, since he spent much time riding ponies and working with his father, a trainer of point-to-point horses at small tracks in western Ireland.