OPELOUSAS, La. – Evangeline Downs begins its first season under new owner Boyd Gaming on Wednesday night. The 84-night stand will run on a Wednesday through Saturday night schedule through Sept. 7. First post each evening will be 5:40 p.m. Central.

Purchased late last year, Evangeline joins fellow Boyd track Delta Downs in Vinton, La., and gives the gaming giant a full 50 percent stake in state’s total number of racing dates.

OLDSMAR, Fla. – Jockey Daniel Coa bounced up off the deck after going down in a spill during last Friday’s fifth race at Tampa Bay Downs, let the doctors check him out, took off his next mount as the rules dictated, and then promptly went back out and posted his third and fourth wins on the card. That’s the new Danny Coa.

Coa had gotten off to a quick start, but midway through the meet fell into a slump and was not riding in good form. He was lackluster at times and seemed to have lost the focus that is so crucial to a rider.

Forest Mouse had to work harder than expected, but still got the job done as the 3-5 favorite in Sunday’s $100,000 Sunland Park Handicap.

Hollywood Park opens its spring-summer meeting on April 25. The Santa Anita winter-spring meeting closes on Sunday.

There are four turf stakes on Saturday and Sunday at Santa Anita, including the $150,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap over about 1 3/4 miles.

Saturday’s main race is the $150,000 Santa Barbara Handicap over 1 1/4 miles for fillies and mares. Lady of Shamrock, who won two Grade 1 races last summer – the American Oaks and Del Mar Oaks – will be a short-priced favorite in her second start of 2013.

Street Game discovered the form that made him the champion 3-year-old New York-bred male in 2011 by cruising to a 2 3/4-length victory in Sunday’s $75,000 Dave Stakes at Aqueduct.

 Alex Solis, who was riding one day after high-blood pressure issues forced his removal from his mount on Saturday, was aboard for the front-running victory.

Lubash, another New York-bred, rallied to get second by three-quarters of a length over Hyper. Abilio was fourth and Seal Cove, the 6-5 favorite, finished last.

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jerry Hollendorfer has won the Kentucky Oaks three times, and the Hall of Fame trainer may want to give the filly classic another shot after he was represented Sunday by the victorious Ciao Bella Luna in the Grade 2, $150,000 Beaumont Stakes at Keeneland.

Ridden by Joel Rosario, Ciao Bella Luna ran down Magical Moon to win the Beaumont by 2 1/2 lengths. Judy In Disguise, the 2-1 favorite in a field of 11 3-year-old fillies, finished another 2 3/4 lengths behind in third.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The one-two finish by Mizdirection and Schiaparelli in Saturday’s $100,000 Las Cienegas Stakes at Santa Anita gives trainer Mike Puype a deep team of female turf sprinters for the spring.

Sunday, Puype said he plans to send the runners in different directions, with Mizdirection bound for the $500,000 Just a Game Stakes over a mile on turf at Belmont Park on June 8, and Schiaparelli a candidate for the $70,000 Great Lady M Stakes over six furlongs on turf at Betfair Hollywood Park on May 26.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Sister Kate won her first stakes in Sunday’s $83,600 Santa Lucia Stakes at Santa Anita, benefiting from a strategic decision by jockey Corey Nakatani not to engage eventual runner-up Candrea in a speed duel.

Approaching the first turn of the race over 1 1/16 miles, Nakatani kept Sister Kate behind Candrea, who set an early pace of 23.22 and 47.22 seconds. Sister Kate ($18.40) trailed by a length on the backstretch, engaged the leader on the turn, and won by three-quarters of a length, in 1:45.22.

A horse who bolted twice while racing on the lead and took a detour in between a parked starting gate and the outside rail at Pimlico has become something of an Internet sensation.

Even non-racing fans were clicking on YouTube to watch the replays of Saturday’s 11^th race and the bizarre trip taken by Spicer Cub, a 4-year-old maiden gelding. By mid-afternoon on Sunday, the replay had been watched more than 13,000 times and there were plenty of comments on Facebook and Twitter.

Fort Larned, the Breeders’ Cup Classic winner who finished fifth to Cyber Secret in the Grade 2, $500,000 Oaklawn Handicap on Saturday, emerged from the race in good order, his trainer, Ian Wilkes, said on Sunday. The horse shipped Sunday morning to Churchill Downs.

“He’s good,” Wilkes said Sunday, noting the horse scoped clean after the race and had not been found to have any other physical problems.