Lou Annie, as expected, was much the best in Wednesday night’s $10,250 conditioned pace at Maywood Park.

The Maryland Racing Commission has approved the sale of Rosecroft Raceway to Georgia Angelos, wife of Peter Angelos, majority owner of the Baltimore Orioles.

Rondel Franco N returned to the winner’s circle after a wire-to-wire triumph in the $22,000 Mares Open Handicap Pace at Dover Downs on Tuesday.

Blastaway Sahbra, the scourge of the local Open Handicap Trot scene for much of 2004, makes his first Westchester appearance of the season in Friday night’s $15,000 co-feature at Yonkers Raceway.

Coated with mud but happy, Cat Manzi posted his 3,000-victory at the Meadowlands with Lhasa Muscles in the third race on Tuesday night.

The Standardbred Retirement Foundation is looking for horse-savvy volunteers to check on horses placed in new adoptive homes.

The Indiana Horse Council is hosting some educational events that are open to all horsemen.

Just A lad and Abbey Road C both found the winner’s circle this afternoon at Woodbine after contesting a pair of C$55,000 second leg divisions of the Horsemen’s Trotting Series for four-year-olds and upwards.

Whosurboy captured the featured $47,500 open pace, the fifth race on Saturday night at the Meadowlands, in 1:49.4, the first sub-1:50 mile ever posted in the month of January.

Stonebridge Kisses closed from last to first to take the featured fifth race, the $42,500 mares open, on Friday night at the Meadowlands.