INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Corey Nakatani, who was scheduled to ride in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, sustained a "slight concussion" Thursday in a spill at Hollywood Park and will be sidelined until next week. The injury prevented Nakatani from riding Blue Burner in the Derby; he was replaced by Pat Day. Nakatani went down in the third race when his mount Whirlwind Trip clipped heels with Star Nine, the eventual winner ridden by Tyler Baze.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Dubai World Cup winner Street Cry is one of 16 Godolphin horses stabled at Belmont Park who are being pointed for late spring and summer campaigns in New York.

Street Cry, who arrived at Belmont Park with the other Godolphin horses on April 22, worked in the slop on Thursday. The official time for the five-furlong work, which was completed around the dogs, the cones that protect the inside of the track, was 1:08.65, breezing.

Laurent Barbarin, an assistant to trainer Saeed bin Suroor, said Street Cry was merely stretching his legs.

CHICAGO - Like a daytime soap opera, there was daily serial drama played out afternoon after afternoon last season at Hawthorne Race Course. Unlike the endlessly drawn-out soaps, Hawthorne found a sad conclusion to the plot at the end of almost every day.

At the heart of the story was a guaranteed pick six, put up by Hawthorne last spring to entice play from national simulcast bettors accustomed to channeling their bankrolls elsewhere.

CHICAGO - Chicago's west-side tracks, Sportsman's and Hawthorne, can be a real merry-go-round for jockeys. You're up, you're down, and round and round you go.

Just a year ago Zoe Cadman, the personable South African native, put an unlikely exclamation point on her rise through the local ranks of riders by winning a title at Hawthorne's spring meet. She rode 36 winners in 30 days, got a nice gold watch, and seemed to be featured on a local media outlet every other day. No woman jockey at Hawthorne had ever experienced remotely comparable success.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Trainer Anthony Reinstedler, who won the $500,000 Lone Star Derby last year with Percy Hope will try and make it two in a row Saturday with the late-running Peekskill.

A full field is expected for the 1 1/8-mile race, which will be run for the first time as a Grade 3.

Peekskill is a closer, and Reinstedler is hopeful that the Lone Star Derby will provide the hot pace the colt needs to fuel his late run.

"It looks like the way the race is coming up, it gives us a legitimate chance," he said.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trainer Chris Paasch, who made a name for himself in northern California but now is based in Southern California, returns to his roots Sunday at Bay Meadows when he starts Stormy Society in the $55,000-added Santa Clara Handicap.

The one-mile race for older fillies and mares drew a field of six. Entrants, from the rail out, are Rosanda, Stormy Society, Red Hot and Blue, Lindsay Jean, My First Lady, and Bold Roberta.

Paasch purchased Stormy Society in Florida earlier this year.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Cowboy Stuff turns around on only five days of rest to run in Sunday's $30,000 Nebraska Derby.

Trained in Nebraska by Kelly Von Hemel, Cowboy Stuff captured a $34,790 Iowa-bred allowance race at Prairie Meadows last Monday by three lengths. A son of Evansville Slew, Cowboy Stuff will to go a mile for the first time in Sunday's derby, which has a full field of 10.

AUBURN, Wash. - The 6-year-old stretch-runner Rollette got hot a couple of seasons ago at Golden Gate, winning four of five starts in a streak that culminated with her first stakes victory in the six-furlong Richmond Handicap on Feb. 17, 2001.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - With the sale of the Pacific Racing Association, operators of Hastings Park, to the Woodbine Entertainment Group, local horsemen are more optimistic about the future of horse racing in the province than they have been for a long time.

David Willmot, CEO of Woodbine Entertainment Group, said the use of technology will help Hastings Entertainment, a wholly owned subsidiary of WEG, regain its share of the gambling market.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Distant Roar, who will make her local debut for Sam-Son Farm and trainer Mark Frostad at Woodbine in Sunday's Fury Stakes, has a couple of tough acts to follow.

The Fury is the primary stakes prep for the June 8 Labatt Woodbine Oaks, a 1 1/8 mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Sam-Son Farm and trainer Frostad have won the last two runnings of the Oaks, with Catch the Ring in 2000 and Dancethruthedawn last year.