Joel Rosario ties track record for winners

Joel Rosario rode six winners at Hollywood Park on Friday, tying a track record originally set by Hall of Fame jockey Bill Shoemaker in 1953.

Rosario rode five consecutive winners, sat out the seventh race, and then won the eighth with Stockings to tie the mark Shoemaker set on June 20, 1953.

Shoemaker repeated the feat in 1970. Laffit Pincay Jr. equaled it in 1968, as did Kent Desormeaux in 1992.

Rosario finished second in the first race and his mount in the seventh was scratched. The 24-year-old rider from the Dominican Republic leads the jockey standings with 31 winners, eight ahead of Rafael Bejarano.

Rosario twice rode five winners during the spring-summer meeting at Hollywood Park.

BOXING

Wynn can’t stage fight

Manny Pacquiao’s promoter, Bob Arum, said that Las Vegas hotel magnate Steve Wynn will not be able to stage the Pacquiao-Floyd Mayweather Jr. super-fight tentatively scheduled for March 13.

“[Wynn] has no place to put the fight. [Sponsoring it at] Thomas & Mack [Center] isn’t possible; it’s not available that day, and he wants to move the fight from March 13, which we can’t do,” Arum said. Wynn wanted the extra time to “build an outdoor arena.”

Arum, however, said he and Mayweather’s promoter, Richard Schaefer, have received “a firm offer” from Dallas Cowboys Stadium owner Jerry Jones to stage the fight at his new 100,000-seat venue. Arum declined to reveal specifics on Jones’ offer. This comes two days after AEG offered a $20-million guarantee to host the bout at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Pacquiao’s advisor has said his client isn’t interested in being responsible for a state tax payment of $3.5 million to $5 million for fighting in California when there’s no state tax liability in Nevada and Texas.

The bout could still very well land at the venue where Mayweather and Pacquiao have fought so often in recent years: the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Arum said he has yet to see a formal offer by the site.

-- Lance Pugmire COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Tar Heels’ Ginyard out

North Carolina officials say guard Marcus Ginyard will miss tonight’s game against Presbyterian because of pain in his left foot.

School officials said the move is a precaution. Team doctor Tom Brickner says the senior’s pain is unrelated to the stress fracture that cost him most of his 2008-09 season, and says he is being evaluated but that “he does not have a fracture.”

Ginyard started each of the first nine games for the 11th-ranked Tar Heels (7-2), averaging 10.4 points.

St. Mary’s guard Wayne Hunter will miss the rest of the season because of a torn ligament in his left knee.

The school said Hunter will have surgery to repair the torn anterior cruciate ligament this month.

Hunter started the first seven games of the season for the Gaels (6-1), averaging 11.6 points.

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Davis, Wolf lower records

American Shani Davis and Jenny Wolf of Germany lowered their world records in the final speedskating World Cup before the Vancouver Olympics.

Davis won the 1,500 meters in 1 minute 41.04 seconds at the Utah Olympic Oval at Kearns, Utah. The time bettered his old mark of 1:41.80 set on March 6 at the same track. American rival Chad Hedrick was second in 1:42.50.

Wolf skated 500 meters in 37 seconds, lowering her previous mark of 37.02 set on Nov. 16, 2007, at Calgary, Canada.

The Ice Edge Holdings investment group has signed a letter of intent to purchase the financially foundering Phoenix Coyotes from the NHL with a long-term commitment to keep the team in Arizona.

Pablo Martin shot nine-under-par 63, taking a four-shot lead over Ernie Els and Edoardo Molinari after two rounds in the Alfred Dunhill Championship at Malelane, South Africa.