ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - It's not like Fort Prado busted the timer, or blew away the competition. But any 8-year-old who can win a stakes race is worthy of note - and on Saturday at Arlington, Fort Prado won the Black Tie Affair Handicap for the fourth time in a 54-start career.

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Love to Tell won two stakes during the Fair Grounds meet, and her record will make her a chief player in next month's Claiming Crown. Trainer Mike Burgess said earlier this week that the Louisiana Downs-based runner is being pointed for the $100,000 Tiara. For fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on turf, the race will be run at Canterbury Park in Minnesota on July 25.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Wrenice has been the favorite in 14 of her 23 starts, so it was a surprise to see her pay $30 when she won an allowance for fillies and mares last Saturday at Lone Star Park. Granted, she did come into the race off four consecutive losses. But three of them were in stakes, and she had worked three furlongs in 34.40 seconds in preparation for the race Saturday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Bullsbay, the winner of the Grade 3 Alysheba Stakes at Churchill Downs last month, is being pointed for the $700,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 11, trainer Graham Motion said on Tuesday.

Motion, who is based in Maryland and had a division in California from last summer until April, said he is planning to send a small team to California in coming weeks. The group is expected to include the older sprinter Rebellion, a candidate for the $300,000 Triple Bend Handicap on July 5, and the 3-year-old filly Saucey Evening, who will race at Del Mar.

Al Stall is a New Orleanian by birth and upbringing, and bases his stable in Louisiana and Kentucky, with a dab of Saratoga tossed in. But Stall could be in for a big Iowa weekend at Prairie Meadows, with major players in the Iowa Derby on Friday night and the Cornhusker Handicap on Saturday evening.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer John Ross missed the big dance here last weekend when Costalivin had to pass on Sunday's $1 million Queen's Plate. But, Ross picked up a nice consolation prize here Saturday when Stylish Citizen upset the $101,250 Charlie Barley, an open race for 3-year-olds that was run over a mile and 70 yards on the main track after being taken off the turf.

Stylish Citizen rallied from fourth place to get up for a half-length victory under Jim McAleney in the Charlie Barley.

MIAMI - After making the 17-hour drive back to Florida from West Virginia on Sunday, trainer David Fawkes was worn out - much more so than his star 3-year-old Big Drama, who won Charles Town's Red Legend Stakes by seven lengths on Saturday.

The seven-furlong Red Legend was Big Drama's first start since his troubled fifth-place finish in the Preakness. The victory in the $250,000 race swelled the colt's earnings over $1 million and serves as a stepping-stone to what Fawkes hopes will be bigger and better things during the second half of the season.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Jockey Chad Beckon, hospitalized since being involved in a serious spill at Woodbine last Wednesday evening, is still in Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre but has been moved out of critical care into intensive care, his agent Anthony Esposito reported Tuesday morning.

"He's still a little foggy, and has lost some short-term memory," said Esposito. "He had a second CT scan and it showed trace bleeding and still some swelling in the brain. But he's getting up, with some help. We're optimistic, but still very concerned."

Former jockey David Fowler-Wright was fatally injured in a starting gate accident at the San Joaquin County Fair on Sunday.

The 47-year-old native of England was working as a rake man and had just raked tracks after the start of the seventh race, a 1 1/16-mile race. He was standing on the gate as a tractor began to pull it out of the way of the field when he either slipped or attempted to jump off the moving gate and was run over by the gate's rear tires, track officials said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Mark Frostad was the veteran and jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva the rookie when they teamed up with Eye of the Leopard for Sunday's $1 million Queen's Plate.

The combination worked wonderfully as Frostad, represented by his 15th entrant in his 10th Queen's Plate appearance, and Da Silva, making his debut in Canada's $1 million showpiece, met in the winner's circle following a stirring renewal of the 1 1/4-mile race.

Frostad said Eye of the Leopard can still improve.