HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Bedanken conquered two turns in her first attempt when she overtook pacesetter Cozy Susie into the stretch, and went on to a 2 1/2-length win the Grade 3, $75,000 Honeybee at Oaklawn Park. It was a nose back in third to Sarah Jade.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Score one for perseverance. Ground Storm, who had come away empty-handed in six previous stakes attempts - four of them as the favorite - finally grabbed the brass ring in Saturday's $109,200 Stymie Handicap at Aqueduct.

NEW ORLEANS - During what was supposed to be a routine morning of training on Friday at Fair Grounds, Repent did his best impression of Fusaichi Pegasus and Point Given by refusing to cooperate with his exercise rider, Helen Pitts.

"It was adventurous," Pitts said.

At one point, Repent, jogging near the outer rail, was on a collision course with trainer Dallas Stewart, who was astride his pony.

Stewart nimbly avoided an accident. "He almost ran me over," Stewart said.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Aqueduct ushers out winter Sunday with its 69th and final card of racing over the inner track. Racing switches to the main track on Wednesday and post time moves to 1 p.m. Eastern.

One of the 17 stakes run over the main track during the spring is the $100,000 Next Move Handicap at nine furlongs on March 29. Two of the likely major players for that Grade 3 race meet Sunday, when With Ability faces Zonk and four others in a $54,000 classified allowance race at 1 1/16 miles.

NEW ORLEANS - Making his first start since the Travers Stakes last summer, Dollar Bill won a hard-fought victory in the ninth race at Fair Grounds on Friday.

Remington Park in Oklahoma City has asked the Oklahoma Racing Commission for permission to shorten its Thoroughbred meet from the awarded 102 days to 76. The season, which was to begin Aug. 3, would now start Aug. 10 and run through Dec. 23, if the request clears the commission at its March 28 meeting.

TORONTO, Ontario - The $100,000 Alberta Derby, the richest race and the only graded race on the Stampede Park calendar, heads a list of 12 stakes scheduled to be run this year at the Calgary, Alberta, racetrack.

The purses for the first eight stakes on the schedule, beginning with the May 4 Stampede Park Sprint Championship, have been raised by $10,000 to $40,000. But Barry McGrath, Stampede Park racing secretary, said that their actual increase in value will be less than $10,000 because the stakes were added-money offerings last year and now are guaranteed.

NEW ORLEANS - If Publication is the forgotten horse in Sunday's Louisiana Derby, it won't be the first time he has been overlooked.

Publication went off at 103-1 last November in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile. "I don't think I've ever started a 100-1 shot before," trainer Terry Knight said. Twelfth early in the race, Publication began a sustained rally midway through the race and finished fourth, beaten about three lengths by the winner, Johannesburg.

NEW ORLEANS - You'llbeinmyheart has been in a different league than the horses she has beaten up on in her first two career starts. Sunday, her connections can get a better fix on her ability when You'llbeinmyheart moves into stakes company for the first time.

You'llbeinmyheart faces five rivals in the $75,000 Battler Star Handicap, a six-furlong race for Louisiana-bred 3-year-old fillies. At least one of them, C J's Princess, a multiple stakes winner, will test You'llbeinmyheart in a way she has not yet experienced in her racing career.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Four months ago, Rize won the Creme Fraiche Handicap at The Meadowlands. Sunday at Gulfstream Park, he will try to win . . .the Creme Fraiche Handicap.

"We're going to try to double up," said Norman Pointer, trainer of Rize.