LEXINGTON, Ky. - There is one "u" in Doubledogdare, but no You. That bit of news can only be good for the six fillies and mares left to run Wednesday in the feature race at Keeneland, the $100,000 Doubledogdare Stakes.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Oaklawn Park, which lost six days of racing this meet because of inclement weather, closed out its 49-day season Saturday with attendance figures similar to last year and a small decline in handle on its races, according to unofficial figures released by the track Saturday.

Attendance averaged 11,938 a day, which was even with last season, while the daily handle on Oaklawn's races averaged $4,649,293. Of that, $3,658,306 was bet offtrack, and $990,987 ontrack, both down 4 percent from 2002.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Jockey Patricia Cooksey was in stable condition Monday at the University of Kentucky Medical Center here after undergoing surgery there Saturday night to repair a broken left femur, the result of a nasty spill earlier Saturday in the first race at Keeneland.

Surgeons implanted a metal rod in the broken femur and also placed a cast on her right leg, where she suffered a lesser fracture to the tibia, just below the knee. She is expected to remain hospitalized until later this week.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A horseplayer who is shopping for a price might be tempted by one of three European imports in the seventh-race feature Wednesday at Santa Anita. Eight older horses entered the mile turf race, a three-other-than optional $100,000 claimer in which Father Thames, Maranilla, and Wixoe Express all race for the first time on U.S. ground.

But there will be no red carpet for them. A solid bunch of locals is likely to foil the shippers, and Duke of Green's sharp form suggests he is tops in the group.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The grueling comeback triumph by Azeri April 5 at Oaklawn Park has given trainer Laura de Seroux reason to reconsider the immediate campaign for the reigning Horse of the Year. Azeri overcame a wide trip to win the Apple Blossom in her first start since the Breeders' Cup Distaff, and plans originally called for her to wheel back May 2 at Churchill Downs in the Grade 2 Louisville Breeders' Cup Handicap.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Barring any last-minute changes of heart, there will only be two horses with New York-based connections running in next month's Kentucky Derby.

Funny Cide, runner-up to Empire Maker in Saturday's Wood Memorial, and Fund of Funds, runner-up to Ten Most Wanted in the April 5 Illinois Derby, will both have history against them when they make a run for the roses on May 3 at Churchill Downs.

Not even Home Run Hitter's trainer, Ben Feliciano, gave her much of a chance against Randaroo, who was sent off at 1-20 odds in the $75,000 Smart Halo after easily winning the first three starts of her career.

Home Run Hitter ($29.80), a distant second to Randaroo when they met in an allowance race last month in New York, inched her way past Randaroo coming into the stretch and held on by a neck.

Cherylville Slew, making the first turf start of her career, pulled a $59.40 upset in the $75,000 Irving Distaff. Cherylville Slew won by a half-length over early pacesetter Distinctive Code, with Golden Rhythm a neck back in third. Odds-on favorite Spectacular Dove was sixth in the field of eight.

The win nearly doubled Cherylville Slew's career earnings, which grew to $90,745.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - When it comes to 4 1/2-furlong races on the turf, trainer John F. Martin is one of the masters. He has trained the likes of Is It True Mex and Sarigor, who excelled at that surface and distance.

Martin sends out likely favorite Courtesan in a $12,500 claimer for fillies and mares going 4 1/2 furlongs on the turf Wednesday. She has four wins, two seconds and two thirds in nine starts at the distance. No other runner in the race has won at the distance, although Flowington has a second and three thirds in five starts at the distance.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trust N Luck took it slow and easy Monday morning in his final work before heading to Kentucky for Saturday's Lexington Stakes at Keeneland.

"I had him going five furlongs in 1:04," trainer Ralph Ziadie said. The official workout tab credited Trust N Luck with a mile in 1:44.60. "He went much faster than he was supposed to last week so I just wanted him to take it nice and easy today."