AUBURN, Wash. - Hastings Park-based trainer Janet Armstrong will attempt to win her second straight Emerald Downs stakes on Sunday when she sends out Outrageous Limit to challenge 10 local 3-year-olds in the $65,000 Tacoma Handicap at a mile.

Armstrong and owner Sid Belzberg, who campaigns under the banner of Budget Stable, won last Sunday's Irish Day Handicap with the undefeated 3-year-old filly Sophie's Trophy. Outrageous Limit, a Kentucky-bred son of Tiznow, gives the trainer and owner a big chance for back-to-back stakes wins.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Smoking Bear helped Greg Tracy dominate the training standings this spring at Stampede Park, recording 3 victories in 4 outings. But the loss was in her last start.

Smoking Bear will look to bounce back from that defeat when she faces six other fillies and mares in Sunday's $22,000 claiming feature at 6 1/2 furlongs.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Fort Prado, the most prominent if not the most impressive winner on last Saturday's Prairie State Festival, came out of his narrow victory in the Black Tie Affair Handicap in good shape, and has as his next goal the Sea O'Erin Breeders' Cup Mile on Aug. 5 at Arlington.

CHICAGO - Silver Whistle raced three weekends ago in what was no worse than the second-best U.S. turf race of the season, finishing fifth in the Grade 1 Manhattan Handicap at Belmont Park. But even if Silver Whistle comes to Arlington as a solid favorite for Sunday's Grade 3, $200,000 Stars and Stripes Handicap, a far less demanding spot, don't expect a knockout victory.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The promising 2-year-old Great Hunter has been sold for an undisclosed sum and sent to trainer Doug O'Neill in Southern California, said Joe Petalino, who trained the colt when he was based at Lone Star Park.

Great Hunter has made two career starts. He finished a troubled second in his debut, then won his maiden one start later, on June 8. For his effort, Great Hunter earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 80. As a son of Aptitude, he is bred to improve with distance.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Sunday's fireworks display at Louisiana Downs is not scheduled to begin until 10 p.m., but the pyrotechnics promise to start a little earlier in the allowance feature, which has an evenly matched field of 11 horses. The first-level allowance will be run at a mile on turf and goes as the ninth of 10 races.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Vickie Oliver hopes a return to the Monmouth Park turf course perks up Present Danger on Sunday, when she runs in a $45,000 third-level allowance. The one-mile race attracted 10 fillies and mares, with only Ernabel carrying the $50,000 tag.

Present Danger ran well in three starts here last summer, including a victory in a second-level allowance race. She turned in several solid efforts in the spring, including a head loss in a third-level allowance at Keeneland in which she equaled her career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 91.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Trainer Ed Moger Jr. had one set of plans for Zoning In. But the 2-year-old colt, who captured the Malcolm Anderson at Bay Meadows on June 17 for his initial victory, had a different agenda.

Zoning In has been training so well since his victory that Moger has decided to change course and run him in Sunday's $50,000 Everett Nevin Alameda County Futurity, a five-furlong race for 2-year-old Cal-breds at the Alameda County Fair.

AUBURN, Wash. - Raise the Bluff, who had previously run right up on the pace, surprised just about everybody when he defied a potent speed bias and came from far back to win last month's Pepsi-Cola Handicap for 3-year-olds at 6 1/2 furlongs. Will he employ the same tactics in Sunday's Tacoma Handicap at Emerald Downs, or will he revert to his front-running style with the stretch-out to a mile?

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Trainer Eric Coatrieux wasn't unhappy that rain was in the forecast for the Fort Erie area on Saturday evening.

Coatrieux will saddle the 5-year-old Alleged Ruler, the probable favorite, for Chiefswood Stable in Sunday's Daryl Wells Sr. Memorial Stakes, a supporting feature to the $250,000 Bison City.

The $75,000 Wells Memorial is scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf.