Veteran Queensland sprinter Steel Zip will trial this week as he prepares for what will probably be his last campaign.The nine-year-old has many fans in Queensland because of his almost white coat and tough attitude to racing.Steel Zip has had 74 starts for 11 wins, 20 minor placings and $915,000 prize money.More than half his races have been in stakes company (44) and he has won five times at that level.The gelding had his first start six years ago on November 11, 2010, when he was second in an Ipswich maiden.This will almost certainly be his last hurrah, although he doesnt seem to know it. He really likes life in the stable and his trips to the beach, trainer Pat Duff said.He raced well again during the winter being stakes-placed in the Eye Liner Stakes and Ramornie Handicap and finishing a close-up fourth in the Glasshouse Mountains Sprint.But the time is looming when he will be retired. 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Beathard is not putting up the numbers he did a year ago in his first season as the starter, but thats more a function of inexperienced receivers and injuries. The senior is completing 59.7 percent of his passes but is averaging only 172.5 yards per game.Penn State comes in off a 62-24 blowout of Purdue, which enabled coach James Franklin to empty his bench early in the fourth quarter for the first time in recent memory.I thought that was significant, Franklin said. To have that type of game where youre able to get some guys experience, especially when we were at 65 scholarships, 75 scholarships, with a lot of wear and tear on those guys.It was a luxury the Nittany Lions didnt have when Franklin took over a team lacking depth that was forced to play its starters throughout as the team clawed for wins. Now, the team is riding its longest wave of momentum since the 2011 season and will try to win its fifth straight conference game for the first time since Joe Paterno last coached.Running back Saquon Barkley played a key role in the blowout, shredding Purdues defense with 207 rushing yards and added 70 more receiving yards. Quarterback Trace McSorley threw three touchdowns in the win; he causes defenses fits with his scrambling and hasnt thrown an interception in 106 passes.But Franklin believes the game will be decided in the trenches.Its going to be our D-line against their O-line, Franklin said. I think its going to be our O-line against their front seven. Thats an area that weve been improving on since the beginning of the season. Theyre a veteran developmental program that does a great job year in and year out. ' ' '