In a field loaded with speed, Jet Propulsion proved the fastest and ultimately best of the bunch after leading throughout to score a shockingly easy 1 1/2-length decision in the $150,000 Miami Mile Breeders' Cup Handicap at Calder Race Course. The Grade 3 Miami Mile was the last of four stakes on the card.

By STEVE ANDERSEN

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park has a record three-day carryover of $1,481,038 on Saturday's program. The bet has not been hit since the meeting began on Wednesday.

Friday night, all of the six winners of the pick six races paid at least $10 to win and three paid more than $30.

Saturday's pick six covers the fourth through ninth races on a nine-race program that begins at 1:20 p.m. Pacific. Post time for the first pick six race, the fourth race, is scheduled for 2:53 p.m.

AUBURN, Wash. - One of the more interesting aspects of the early part of this year's Emerald Downs meeting will be to see how Westsideclyde and See Ya Later Slew, two of the most exciting runners to emerge at last year's stand, will stack up against the best in the local handicap division.

In the case of Westsideclyde, at least, we probably won't have to wait long.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Arravale, Canada's Horse of the Year and champion female turf horse in 2006, checked back into Woodbine without fanfare a couple of weeks ago and has been gearing up for her 4-year-old bow.

A Kentucky-bred owned by Robert Costigan and trained by Mac Benson, Arravale defeated older fillies and mares here in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes to cap a five-start 2005 season in which she earned more than $1 million.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Last year's Kings Point Handicap turned out to be a cozy spot for Funny Cide, who set soft fractions en route to a gate-to-wire victory over Gold and Roses as the 3-5 favorite. While Funny Cide heads Sunday's field in name recognition, he will find things much tougher in the 27th renewal of the $65,000 King's Point.

Funny Cide, the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, will face five fellow New York-breds including in-form runners Accountforthegold and Who What Win in the nine-furlong Kings Point, one of two stakes on closing day at Aqueduct.

Trainer Terry Jordan confirmed that True Metropolitan, who won the Sovereign Award as Canada's top older horse on dirt last year, will head to Woodbine following his expected 2007 debut in the $50,000 George Royal Stakes at Hastings next Saturday.

True Metropolitan will be condidered for the Grade 3, $150,0000 Eclipse Stakes at Woodbine on May 21, and then pointed for the Grade 3, $200,000 Dominion Day at Woodbine on July 1, Jordan said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The connections of local champion Ookashada will soon find out if he will be able to carry his excellent 2-year-old form over to his 3-year-old year.

Ookashada will make his 2007 debut in the colts and geldings division of the CTHS Sales Stakes on Sunday at Hastings. From the sensational way he has been training, it looks like Ookashada will be among the leaders of the local 3-year-old division.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's meet ended on Friday, far too soon for Ascertain. After winning a money allowance race earlier in the meet, Ascertain came back on closing day to capture the Grade 3, $200,000 Elkhorn Stakes, a 1 1/2-mile grass race in which Jazil, last year's Belmont Stakes winner, finished last of 12 in his turf debut.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Fresh off winning his first Oaklawn Park title, jockey Luis Quinonez is now riding at Lone Star Park on a regular basis for the first time in his career. He won the first and second races here Thursday night, including a 2-year-old maiden race for one of his biggest patrons, trainer Steve Asmussen.

"I'm awfully happy about him being here," said Asmussen, who won the training title at Oaklawn. "He's wonderfully consistent and horses run for him. And we've always had a lot of luck."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The 10-race California Gold Rush program at Hollywood Park on Sunday will be without several leading members of the current California-bred class.

Stakes winners such as Bordonaro, Lava Man, McCann's Mojave, Mystical Plan, River's Prayer, and Shaggy Mane are being pointed for graded stakes in California and Kentucky, while Notional, Phar to Win, and Proud Tower Too are recovering from injury.

All of them would have fit well in various stakes on the Gold Rush program.