OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Sale or not, trainer John Servis is hoping he has the opportunity to run Martha's Music in Monday's $75,000-added Rare Treat Handicap, the feature on the Presidents Day card at Aqueduct.

Servis said it's possible that Martha's Music, a winner of her last four starts, including three stakes, could be sold before the Rare Treat. The unnamed potential buyer sent a veterinarian to Servis's barn at Philadelphia Park on Thursday to examine Martha's Music, who is currently owned by Leonard Green's D J Stable.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - After a head-turning performance in a first-level allowance race last month, Harford Ghost seeks her first stakes victory in Saturday's $75,000-added Dearly Precious at Aqueduct.

Harford Ghost will meet six other 3-year-old fillies in the six-furlong Dearly Precious, the first of three stakes to be run over the three-day holiday weekend. The weather forecast is for wintry conditions throughout the weekend.

ALBANY, Calif. - Moving straight from the maiden ranks to stakes company isn't a standard practice, especially for a 3-year-old filly that has run only once.

But that's what China Princess will do Saturday when she takes on five rivals in the $60,000-added Vallejo Stakes at one mile.

China Princess won her debut at six furlongs for trainer Brent Sumja on Jan. 12 despite racing greenly in the lane.

PHOENIX, Ariz. - How competitive is the $50,000 Coyote Handicap at Turf Paradise? The weight spread from top to bottom among the 11 contestants is a mere four pounds, 121-117, and one of the horses who has been at or near the top of the Phoenix pecking order the last few seasons, Hangonslewpyhangon, is one of the 117-pound lightweights.

FLORENCE, Ky. - It was one year ago that Golden Oldie hit the top of the Turfway Park race charts. A five-length romp by Golden Oldie in the Dust Commander Stakes gave David Asbury perhaps the greatest thrill of his training career.

"He ran a great race that day," said Asbury. "I'd have to say it was one of my best days in this business."

Golden Oldie will attempt to give Asbury a similar feeling when the 7-year-old horse returns in the $50,000 Dust Commander at Turfway. A full field of 12 older horses was entered in the 1 1/16-mile race.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - For the second time in five days, trainer Mark Hennig will send out an odds-on favorite in a Grade 3 sprint stakes race at Gulfstream Park. Hennig hopes Gold Mover fares better in Friday's $100,000 Shirley Jones Handicap than Gygistar did when he finished fifth as the 4-5 favorite in last Sunday's Deputy Minister Handicap.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - If nothing else, Offlee Wild proved on Wednesday morning that he can work awfully fast.

In his final tune-up for Saturday's $200,000 Fountain of Youth Stakes, Offlee Wild turned in a torrid five-furlong work. Gulfstream Park's official clockers caught him in 57.40 seconds, while Daily Racing Form timed him in 58.

Regardless, it was a fast work, the best of 34 at the distance and a full second faster than the next-quickest work. It was one of just two five-furlong works that were faster than one minute.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Gary Contessa said Wednesday that a sixth horse trained by him has tested positive for the banned substance ephedra, which Contessa said is in a herbal vitamin supplement that he fed his horses.

The Aqueduct stewards confirmed the six positives.

Candid Glen, who has won the past two runnings of the $200,000 Connally Breeders' Cup Turf in photo finishes, will break from the rail Saturday night when the 1 1/8-mile race is run for the ninth time at Sam Houston Race Park.

Candid Glen faces 11 rivals, including 118-pound starting highweight Green Fee, in his bid to become the first horse to win the Connally three times.

ARCADIA, Calif. - After a remarkable December campaign in which he pulled upsets in two graded stakes, former claimer Debonair Joe returns to a more modest level of competition in a $70,000 allowance race at Santa Anita on Friday.

The winner of the Grade 3 Vernon Underwood Stakes at Hollywood Park at 52-1 on Dec. 7 and the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita on Dec. 26 at 26-1, Debonair Joe returns following a sixth in the Sunshine Millions Sprint on Jan. 25.

"He came out of that race pretty sharp," trainer Juan Pablo Silva said. "I'm expecting him to run a big race."