OZONE PARK, N.Y. - So far March has come in like a lion, and another wet track could impact Thursday's feature, a $56,000 classified allowance at 1 1/16 miles that drew seven older males, headed by entries from Richard Dutrow Jr. and Pat Reynolds.

Dutrow, whose 23 wins put him one behind defending-champ Gary Contessa for leading trainer, has entered My Request and Quiet One, and both are capable of triple-digit Beyers when it's wet. My Request ran a 101 in winning a high-priced claiming race in the slop at Saratoga last summer and earned a 100 on Jan. 2 when third in the mud.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A small field of perhaps only four - led by Grade 1 winners Composure and Elloluv - is taking shape for the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks on Saturday. Caesar Dominguez trains Long Term Wish, and posed the rhetorical question: "Can I run third? If I can run third in a Grade 1, then I'm going to run."

Long Term Wish, upset winner of a $112,000 sprint for California-breds Feb. 8, has won 3 of 6 and has never started around two turns. According to Dominguez, a third-place finish by Long Term Wish would increase her residual value by $100,000.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A 6-1 overlay in a similar race last month, Thunder Bullet is out for his third straight win Thursday at Santa Anita in the seventh-race feature. His odds be will be cut in half, which is appropriate considering the weekday card is replete with short fields and underlay prices.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - A clean trip might be all four-time stakes winner Cowboy Stuff needs to win his second start after a four-month layoff in Thursday's six-furlong allowance feature at Oaklawn Park.

In his comeback race, a $60,000 optional claimer Feb. 5, Cowboy Stuff was racing in a prominent position before encountering trouble and finishing sixth.

ALBANY, Calif. - It appears likely that Peace Rules, a graded stakes winner on the turf, will run in Saturday's $200,000 Grade 3 El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate Fields.

Trainer Bobby Frankel put off an official announcement Tuesday but said Victor Espinoza would ride the colt if entered. Later, on during a national conference call about the El Camino Real and the Louisiana Derby, Espinoza said he planned to be at Golden Gate Fields on Saturday and Fair Grounds on Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Whether he was scratching a leading contender in Medaglia d'Oro early in the week or successfully defending his title with Milwaukee Brew on Saturday, trainer Bobby Frankel was never far from the center of attention of the $1 million Santa Anita Handicap.

Milwaukee Brew made up for the absence of his more prominent stablemate by winning a hard-fought stretch battle from heavily favored Congaree, denying Congaree a fourth consecutive graded stakes victory.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Jockey Laffit Pincay Jr. took off his final three mounts Saturday and all of Sunday after being shaken up in a one-horse spill in Saturday's fifth race.

Pincay was aboard Trampus Too, who fell after clipping heels with Rainman's Request when the field crossed over from the hillside portion of the turf course onto the main turf oval.

Pincay missed a ride on Redattore, who won Saturday's $400,000 Frank Kilroe Mile with substitute jockey Alex Solis.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Pick six bettors chasing a carryover of $191,060 at Santa Anita on Wednesday will not have many horses to sort through.

The eight-race program has only 58 entrants, including 45 in the pick six races, the third through eighth.

The eighth race, a sprint for maiden claimers, drew nine runners, the day's largest field. The smallest fields are in the first and seventh races, which have six starters each. There is no turf racing on a program that features all sprints, at six and 6 1/2 furlongs.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - After winning Saturday's Busher Stakes with Elegant Designer, trainer Tony Dutrow and jockey Mario Pino will be back at Aqueduct Wednesday with another stakes-winning filly, Randaroo.

Randaroo, who hasn't run since winning the Valley Stream Stakes by 5 1/4 lengths in her second career start Nov. 24, is the likely favorite in the fifth race, a $50,000 allowance for 3-year-old fillies. The conditions of the six-furlong race are for fillies who have not won either $15,000 twice other than maiden or claiming, or three races.

NEW ORLEANS - Badge of Silver turned in another brilliant work last Sunday at Fair Grounds and remains on target for this Sunday's $750,000 Louisiana Derby.