OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The New York Racing Association announced on Wednesday that it is revamping its Triple Tiara series - New York's triple crown for fillies - and will offer a $2 million bonus to any 3-year-old filly who can sweep the Mother Goose Stakes, the Coaching Club American Oaks, and the Alabama Stakes, all Grade 1 races. In effect, the Alabama replaces the one-mile Acorn Stakes in the series.

The Acorn will still be run as scheduled, on June 6, as part of a promotion linked to the next day's Belmont Stakes.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Trainer Bobby Frankel's quest to set a single-season earnings record will not include a start by Surya in Sunday's $150,000 Bayakoa Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Through Tuesday, Frankel's runners had earned $17,433,888, leaving him only $408,470 shy of the record of $17,842,358 set by D. Wayne Lukas in 1988.

Over the next three weekends, Frankel will have runners in as many as five stakes in an attempt to break the record. But that list of stakes does not include the Bayakoa Handicap for fillies and mares over 1 1/16 miles on dirt.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - There's something about Aqueduct that brings out the best in Maryland-based trainer Anthony Dutrow.

Last winter, Dutrow batted .500 over the inner track (9 for 18) and won a couple of stakes. This fall, Dutrow batted 1.000 over the main track (5 for 5). Thursday, he hopes to keep his Big A fortunes rolling with a pair of runners in Ebb n' Flow in the fifth and Nice Boots Baby in the featured eighth, a third-level allowance race for fillies and mares going six furlongs.

CHICAGO - Steve Sexton was named president of Churchill Downs on Tuesday, just 16 months after he moved from Lone Star Park to Arlington Park.

Sexton leaves his post as Arlington president to assume a major leadership position at Churchill, the flagship track of Churchill Downs Inc., where he will also serve as senior vice president of Churchill's Kentucky operations.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Trainer Linda Rice was back at work Tuesday morning, just one week after suffering three broken ribs and a broken elbow when a horse kicked her in the back at her barn.

Rice, with her left arm in a sling, seemed upbeat about her progress, saying she was fortunate her injuries weren't worse. Rice said she would come out for only a couple of hours each day for the next few weeks.

"The ribs are healing miraculously fast," Rice said while preparing to time horses at the Belmont Park training track. "Maybe because I'm a runner I'm healing really fast."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A change in surface has given Fantastic Groom a new career this year.

At this time last year, Fantastic Groom was uncompetitive in starter allowance races on dirt. With a switch to turf, he has King Max Farms and trainer Pico Perdomo wondering if he could develop into a stakes-caliber horse.

To move closer to that level, Fantastic Groom must win races such as Thursday's seventh at Hollywood Park, a $45,000 allowance over 1 1/16 miles on turf.

Larry B was one unhappy colt late on the afternoon of Nov. 3. Where was that lovely green cushion beneath his feet? What was the stinging substance the other horses at Churchill Downs were kicking back in his face?

A true turf horse racing on dirt isn't a pretty sight to behold, and Larry B - expressing his displeasure early in the proceedings by unseating jockey Rene Douglas during warm-ups - ran ugly in the Grade 3 Iroquois Stakes, barely completing the course. It was Larry B's first start on the main track, and it was nothing like the two grass races he had already run.

ALBANY, Calif. - Cash Creek returns to the races at Golden Gate on Thursday, meeting eight other 2-year-olds in the co-feature, a $25,000 claiming race at six furlongs.

Cash Creek has led at the first call in all three of his career starts, and he figures to be among the early leaders again when he makes his first start in more than five months.

Shawklit Man, who is 2 for 2 with his win in the $75,000 MEC Mile at Remington Park on Dec. 1, is being pointed for the $500,000 Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs in Vinton, La.

The one-mile race for 2-year-olds drew 73 nominations for its first running on Dec. 21.

Shawklit Man raced from off the pace to win his maiden over seven furlongs at Churchill Downs in November, then led throughout in his 3 1/2-length MEC win.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Though Left Bank is gone, trainer Todd Pletcher hopes he will not be forgotten in Eclipse Award voting for handicap horse of the year. Eclipse ballots will be mailed out on Friday and must be returned by Dec. 31.