Turfway Park in Florence, Ky., was closed for training on Friday morning after a powerful storm Thursday night inflicted widespread but minor damage to the track's barn area, officials of the track said.

The storm, which hit northern Kentucky on Thursday evening with driving rain and wind, damaged nearly every barn on the backstretch, according to Sherry Pinson, a spokeswoman for the track. No horses or humans were injured as a result of the damage, Pinson said.

"Counting the pony barn, we have 20 barns, and only two or three of them have no damage," Pinson said.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Sis City returns to Monmouth Park, the scene of the victory that launched her career, for the $65,000 Fort Monmouth Stakes on Sunday.

The 4-year-old looms a solid favorite in the 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares with her tremendous back class and her always formidable trainer, Richard Dutrow Jr.

Dutrow claimed her for $50,000 at Saratoga in the summer of her 2-year-old season. Sis City's next start was Monmouth's Mongo Queen Stakes, and the results were dazzling: a 16-length victory.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Reluctant Guest Stakes, Arlington's featured eighth race Sunday, is a $40,000 overnight stakes open to any female turf miler 3 years of age or older, but the Reluctant Guest has become the unofficial prep for the June 24 Lincoln Heritage Handicap, a race restricted to Illinois-bred grass horses.

"That race is the goal, same as for three or four others in there," said Greg Geier, who trains Reluctant Guest starter You Dancing Devil, one of the Illinois-breds.

MIAMI - Take D' Tour was perfect in four starts at a one-turn mile, so trainer David Fawkes figured if she was ever going to beat the likes of Indian Vale or two-time Grade 1 winner Smuggler it would be in last Sunday's Grade 2 Shuvee Handicap at one mile at Belmont Park. Sure enough, Take D' Tour not only won the Shuvee, she demolished the field, leading throughout en route to a 5 1/2-length victory under jockey Cornelio Velasquez.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Wild L tries for his first stakes victory when he heads a competitive field of eight Iowa-bred 3-year-olds in Sunday's $55,000-added Gray's Lake Stakes at Prairie Meadows.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Five 3-year-olds, each seeking his second career win, headline Sunday's Bay Meadows feature, a $40,000 starter allowance at 1 1/16 miles. The race is for runners that have never won two races and have run for a claiming price of $40,000 or less.

could live up to his name in the race. He actually graduated in straight maiden competition, but his career debut was in a $40,000 maiden claimer.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sunday's Grade 3, $125,000 Connaught Cup has attracted an interesting pair of shippers from south of the border, with Remarkable News and Willard Straight among the entrants for the 1 1/16-mile turf race.

Remarkable News, a 4-year-old who was bred in Venezuela, debuted with a second-place finish at Saratoga last summer and will come into the Connaught Cup as a winner of 4 of 6 starts, all at a mile or 1 1/16 miles on turf.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Lou Capi saddled his third winner of the Fort Erie meet with Tiger Canyon ($7.50) in a starter allowance here last Monday.

That's half the wins Capi had at the Fort all of last year. And, it matches his 2004 total of three.

"I'm trying to regroup," said Capi, 56. "The last couple of years have been bad for me."

Capi's other winners here this spring were Ok Monsoon ($36.60) and Vorticity ($27.60).

Tiger Canyon's win was her fourth for Capi since he claimed her for $5,000.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Smooth Rocket looks for her second win in as many starts here at Assiniboia Downs in Sunday's featured seventh race, a second-level allowance with a claiming option of $16,000 for fillies and mares at 5 1/2 furlongs.

Trained by Lorna Gray, Smooth Rocket dueled with Vicar's Daughter before drawing off to win a first-level allowance race by 3 1/2 lengths in her local debut on May 7. Vicar's Daughter returned to win a first-level allowance last Monday by four lengths.

AUBURN, Wash. - When Flamethrowin-texan first arrived at Emerald Downs as a 3-year-old in July 2004, his past performances consisted of eight sprint races, five of which he had won. The big question at that time was: Can he go long?

He answered that question definitively with 7 wins from 11 subsequent races, all but one of them routes. Flamethrowintexan has routed so exclusively since he arrived in the barn of trainer Jim Penney that it might now be fair to ask: Can he still sprint?