The top-two finishers in the Grade 1, $500,000 Ruidoso Futurity, Jess Significant and Misty Blue Mercedes, will pass the trials to the Grade 1, $625,000 Rainbow Futurity on July 3 at Ruidoso Downs and point to the Grade 1, $2 million All American Futurity, according to their trainer, Carl Draper.

It means that the $4 million All American Triple Crown bonus will not be paid. It would be awarded to the connections of any horse that wins the Ruidoso, Rainbow, and All American futurities. The bonus never has been been won.

This Snow Is Cold looks too keep her impressive streak going in the Grade 1 Bank of America Texas Challenge Championship by qualifying for the July 12 finals from the trials at Sam Houston Race Park on Saturday night.

The 5-year-old mare won the Texas Challenge Championship at 3 and was a close second in it last year. She is returning from a 10-month layoff Saturday, but had a best-of-27 work - 220 yards in 12.27 - at Delta Downs on June 13.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Gottcha Gold and Hey Byrn, two of trainer Eddie Plesa's top runners, remain on target for their upcoming races at Monmouth Park as both try to bounce back from Grade 1 loses at Pimlico.

Gottcha Gold, a heart-breaking second by a neck in the mud to Student Council in the Pimlico Special, is heading to the Grade 3 Salvator Mile on July 5.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Jockey Jamie Theriot is riding his recent hot streak at Churchill Downs all the way to Saratoga.

Theriot, who at one point during the current Churchill meet won with 9 of 10 mounts, including 6 in a row, "wants to give Saratoga a try," said agent Fred Aime. "We feel like we've built quite a bit of momentum and business, and this looks like a good time for Jamie to go up there and see what he can do."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - It's a good thing that Go Between is a good shipper. Trainer Bill Mott has been most willing to send him across the country for lucrative stakes on synthetic tracks.

On Saturday, the New York-based Go Between will make his third start of the year in California for the $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Hollywood Park.

FARMINGTON, N.M. - It was nearly a five-horse sweep for trainer Wes Giles in the $96,800 Four Corners Futurity. Go Southern Special ($11), with Russ Vicchrilli aboard, raced 350 yards in 17.28 seconds for a head win over Unbridled Jet. Giles' other four charges were less than a length apart, finishing third through sixth.

* Goodbye Norma Jean ($6.20) led all the way under jockey Joe Martinez for a length and a half victory over the late charging Snowdrop in the $50,000 O.G. Fischer Memorial Handicap at SunRay Park on Sunday.

EDMONTON, Alberta – One start does not a champion make, but trainer Joan Petrowski appears that she has another good one.

Curls and Pearls made her career debut a winning one last Sunday in the very first 2-year-old race of the season, beating the highly regarded Robo Willie by a length. It was not so much the victory but how Curls and Pearls won that had the backstretch community buzzing.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan – A week after the best older horses on the grounds competed in the first stakes events of the meet, the spotlight turns to the 3-year-olds in Friday’s Prairie Meats Handicap for fillies and Saturday’s Early’s Farm and Garden Handicap for colts and geldings. Each race carries a $7,500 purse, is contested over six furlongs, and appears to be a wide-open affair.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The cell phone bill is huge and he does not care one bit. Being the leading rider at Santa Anita and Hollywood Park this year has given Rafael Bejarano financial freedom, if not peace of mind.

Every day, before the races begin or during his 90-minute commute home to Pasadena, Bejarano grabs his cell phone and calls south, way south, to his family in Arequipa, Peru. He cannot see his mother, Elva, his father, Hugo, or his two sisters - they have been unable to gain tourist visas - but he can still talk to them daily.

AUBURN, Wash. - Enumclaw Girl did everything asked of her in Sunday's one-mile Irish Day Handicap for 3-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs, and she did it in style.

It would be stretching the truth, however, to say that she proved she can win around two turns in a fairly run race against quality competition.