Horse Racing News by Brad Free

The horse shortage in California does not apply to 3-year-old fillies on grass at Del Mar.

Zenyatta might be greatest mare who ever raced, she probably is the best horse in the country, and she certainly has captured the hearts of California fans.

Martin Garcia is the new jockey for St Trinians, the 5-year-old mare expected to provide Zenyatta her main challenge June 13 in the Grade 1 Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park.

Favorites are running amok at Hollywood Park, winning at a 41 percent clip and slowing pick-six carryovers to a mere trickle -- the bet carried over only four times the first 28 days of the spring meet.

If trainer Jim Cassidy is right -- that Evening Jewel fancies turf over synthetic or dirt -- then the Grade 2 Honeymoon Handicap on Monday at Hollywood Park could turn out to be a one-filly race.

The transitory label of "interim" Santa Anita president will be stabilized in the next six weeks, when the board of directors of MI Developments names George Haines the formal successor to Ron Charles, Haines said on Friday.

For the first time in three years, Zenyatta will not win the Grade 2 Milady Handicap for fillies and mares Sunday at Hollywood Park.

Rail Trip will be favored to reclaim leadership of the West Coast handicap division when he returns from an eight-month layoff Saturday at Hollywood Park.

Setsuko has returned home and is under consideration for the Belmont, trainer Richard Mandella said this week.

Even if the California Gold Rush program has slimmed down for 2010, Saturday at Hollywood Park is still a big day for California-breds.