No Mentira injects fun into Weeks' life

Large field likely for Turf Cup
Biancone will start Cosmonaut in Saturday's $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup, a Grade 1 at 1 1/2 miles.

The race lacks a standout, but is expected to draw at least nine runners - Artiste Royale, Baby First, Boboman, Meteor Storm, Mighty Mysterious, Runaway Dancer, Symphony Sid, and T. H. Approval.

Symphony Sid won the Grade 3 Carleton Burke Handicap at Santa Anita in his last start in October, while T. H. Approval was eighth in the Breeders' Cup Turf at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4.

Cosmonaut won the Grade 3 Arlington Handicap at 1 1/4 miles on a soft turf course at Arlington Park in July, but has lost his last four starts. He was fourth in the Grade 1 Citation Handicap here on Nov. 24.

The race will not include Notable Guest, a Group 3 stakes winner in England in 2005 who recently joined trainer Bobby Frankel's stable. Frankel said on Tuesday he did not have a plan for Notable Guest's next start.

Foxysox may target La Brea
Foxysox, the winner of the Grade 2 Bayakoa Handicap last Sunday in her first start on the main track, may make her next start on dirt as well, in the $250,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs at Santa Anita on Dec. 30, trainer Carla Gaines said.

Foxysox won three stakes on turf earlier this year before being tried on the main track in the Bayakoa. Gaines and owner Warren Williamson are hoping to run Foxysox in the three-race La Canada series for 4-year-olds of 2007, which also includes the $150,000 El Encino Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Jan. 14 and the $200,000 La Canada Stakes at 1o1/8 miles on Feb. 11.

Proud Tower Too getting in shape
Proud Tower Too, unraced since winning the $2 million Golden Shaheen Sprint in Dubai in March, worked three furlongs in 38.80 seconds on Tuesday, his first work since returning to training following surgery to have a bone chip removed from an ankle.

Owned by Daniel Cardenas's Tricar Stable and trained by Sal Gonzalez, Proud Tower Too beat Thor's Echo in the Golden Shaheen. In November, Thor's Echo vaulted to the top of the nation's sprint division with wins in the Breeders' Cup Sprint and Frank De Francis Memorial Dash.