GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Boots on Sunday, who came out of retirement for one race earlier in the meet at Lone Star Park, is going to resume being a stable pony, his trainer, Danny Pish, said Wednesday.

"We're going back to the big saddle," said Pish.

Boots on Sunday made his first start since August 2002 in the $40,000 Carter McGregor Memorial here June 17, when he pushed a hot pace and finished eighth. Now 9, he was originally retired with a bowed left front tendon. The tear healed, and earlier this meet, Pish began working Boots on Sunday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Friday's allowance feature at Woodbine, plus a maiden special race earlier on the card, are both scheduled for 1 3/8 miles on the turf course.

The two races raise an interesting scenario that could surface here over the next seven weeks if weather necessitates taking a race off the grass.

Woodbine's seven-furlong inner Standardbred track, which has been converted for use by the Thoroughbreds while Polytrack is installed in place of the former main track, can accommodate a limited number of distances.

Jockey Eibar Coa had ridden horses against Commentator several times last year and thought him to be a very aggressive horse. So Coa was pleasantly surprised when a most relaxed Commentator took him on a successful 6 1/2-furlong jaunt around Belmont Park's main track Wednesday afternoon.

Saratoga Race Course will experiment with a twilight racing program on Friday, Sept. 1. First post for the nine-race card will be 3 p.m. Normal post for a weekday card at Saratoga is 1 p.m. New York Racing Association officials are trying this based on some success the twilight Fridays have had during the Belmont summer meet. Saratoga's admission gates will open at noon on Sept. 1, and there will be happy hour food and drink specials beginning at 5 p.m.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine has canceled its eight-race Wednesday evening card due to deteriorating track conditions as a result of heavy rains which hit the Toronto area Wednesday morning.

Thursday is a dark day, and racing is scheduled to resume with an 11-race card on Friday.

Monday morning in a parking lot at Canterbury Park, Scott Lake's rental car incessantly chimed a warning as Lake juggled two, sometimes three cell phone calls, at some point calling out to a passerby.

Chaos? No, a typical moment in the life of America's most prolific Thoroughbred horse trainer. Lake lives just down the road from Philadelphia Park, but his horses, 276 of them at the moment, one of the largest training operations ever assembled, are scattered across seven different racetracks on the Eastern seaboard.

"Believe me, I know it's insane," said Lake.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - While the Hollywood Park spring-summer meet winds down to closing day Sunday, horsemen are looking ahead to the Del Mar racing season that begins next Wednesday.

That includes trainer Art Sherman, whose Siren Lure won two Hollywood graded sprints, including the Grade 1 Triple Bend Handicap, and will be freshened before he returns Aug. 20 at Del Mar in the Grade 2 Pat O'Brien Handicap at seven furlongs.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The class hike to first-condition allowance has foiled an untold number of maiden winners, and perhaps Lake Marina will be the latest to trip on the class barrier Thursday at Hollywood Park.

But the manner in which she drilled maidens in her most recent start - she pressed a fast pace on a dead track and drew off through the lane - suggests that Lake Marina is the most likely winner of the seventh-race feature, a 1 1/16-mile allowance for fillies and mares.

"We'll find out if she's the real thing," trainer Barry Abrams said.

Little Money Down faces an important test Thursday in the $48,000 second-level allowance feature at Belmont Park. A one-mile race, the allowance has an optional claiming price of $35,000 and has a field of six.

Trainer John Ward said he is still uncertain whether Little Money Down, now 4, is a sprinter or a router, but he hopes to garner clues in Thursday's race.

"We kind of split the difference on distance," Ward said. "This is a key race for us about which direction we turn. I'm really interested to watch it. This will set us up for whatever we want to do at Saratoga."

CHICAGO - Of the many horses Chicago's leading owner, Frank Calabrese, has claimed this season, Suaviter ranks among the best. Taken out of a win in a $25,000 claimer May 26 at Arlington, Suaviter was back three weeks later and won by more than three lengths while racing for a $62,500 tag in a race also open to third-level allowance horses. There was talk of a trip to Canterbury Park for a stakes run, but Suaviter has wound up in Arlington's featured eighth race Thursday, a race at the same class level as her recent victory.