Junior College schooled the opposition in the $50,000 Don Bernhardt Stakes at Ellis Park Saturday, winning by 3 1/4 lengths over favored Monkey Hill in track record time.

In contention from the start, Junior College ($13.60) engaged in a three-horse duel early with Monkey Hill and Killenaule and had little trouble dispatching those foes at the top of the stretch. When given his cue from jockey Jesus Castanon after a half-mile in 45.54 seconds, he accelerated away from the field to complete 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:14.56 over a blazing-fast Ellis Park main track.

Calder Race Course will bring back its Extreme Day program on Saturday, Nov. 25, during the Tropical at Calder meeting, track president Kenn Dunn announced Saturday. The

inaugural Extreme Day was held last Saturday, but severe rainstorms washed away two of the day's key events, the World's Fastest Daily Double and the King George's Wrong Way Stakes on the turf.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The preponderance of winning favorites in the early days of the Del Mar meeting ended emphatically on Friday, leaving a pick six carryover of $159,430 for Saturday's 10-race program.

Saturday's pick six covers the fifth through 10th races and includes two turf stakes.

The first leg is the $150,000 San Clemente Handicap for 3-year-old fillies at a mile on turf. Attima, the impressive winner of the Honeymoon Breeders' Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park in June but last in the American Oaks at that track earlier this month, is the 9-5 favorite.

AUBURN, Wash. - Nineteen hopefuls will prep for the Grade 3 Longacres Mile on Aug. 20 in either of two stakes on Sunday's Mile Preview Day program.

Flamethrowintexan, who was nominated for both stakes and drew an identical highweight assignment of 120 pounds in each, will head a field of 10 in the $100,000 Mt. Rainier Breeders' Cup Handicap at nine furlongs.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Sunday's $50,000-added Ernest Finley Handicap at the Sonoma County Fair seems pretty straightforward. Although there are four horses who like the lead, no one can match the early speed of Stone Rain, who has won four straight in wire-to-wire fashion at Sunday's six-furlong distance.

Most recently, Stone Rain scored a five-length win in the Sam Whiting at Pleasanton on July 8.

"Every race on paper, it looks like there's someone who might go for the lead against him, but he always seems to get the lead," said his trainer, Billy Morey.

Ruidoso will celebrate New Mexico-breds on Sunday when it offers a slate of 11 races, all stakes for statebreds. There will be six stakes for Thoroughbreds and five for Quarter Horses.

Among the participants are some of the best New Mexico-breds in racing, including the richest of them all, Rocky Gulch, who is entered in the $55,000 Land of Enchantment Handicap (race 6).

Ladysgotthelooks will try for a repeat score in the $28,300 Ingrid Knotts at Arapahoe Park on Sunday. She'll be coupled with Transaction in the six-furlong race for Colorado-bred fillies and mares. Both horses are owned by Tangarae Farms and trained by Kenneth Gleason.

Ladysgotthelooks won last year's Knotts by 3 1/2 lengths over Kranky Karol, who is also in Sunday's seven-horse lineup.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In addition to having to negotiate two turns and 1 1/8 miles - neither of which she has done successfully to this point - Take D' Tour will have another factor working against her when she runs in Sunday's Grade 1 Go for Wand Handicap at Saratoga.

The respect of Todd Pletcher.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Bordonaro returns from a three-month layoff Sunday in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Handicap at Del Mar, where trainer Bill Spawr offers an explicit guarantee about the nation's best six-furlong sprinter.

"It will be his best race," Spawr said. "We are not carrying any excuses."

None will be required if Bordonaro reproduces the 115 Beyer Figure he earned in the Grade 3 Count Fleet Handicap at Oaklawn Park. That race on April 13 remains the fastest six-furlong race this year; Bordonaro looks and acts like he will pick up where he left off.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - American shipper Gouldings Green looks almost unbeatable on paper in Sunday's $150,000 Chinese Cultural Centre Seagram Cup Stakes at Woodbine.

But the fact that the Grade 3 race is being contested over the tight-turned inner dirt track makes it a bit more wide open. Odds-on favorites Tothemoonandback, Judiths Wild Rush, and Datrick have all lost stakes over the seven-furlong inner track, and Gouldings Green may need a little racing luck to prevail in the 1 1/16-mile event.