AUBURN, Wash. - What do we do with Diamond Dollars in Sunday's 6 1/2-furlong Federal Way Handicap?

Diamond Dollars, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Stravinsky, showed good speed before tiring in both of her starts at Sunland Park earlier this spring, the first time against maiden special weight company and the next time against $12,500 maidens. She was claimed out of her second start by trainer Bill Tollett, who has been known to move horses up off the claim. Still, there was little to prepare fans for her Emerald Downs debut against $25,000 maidens on May 5.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Monday, when all of Canada celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria, who ruled the British Empire from 1837 until her death in 1901, Hastings will honor a jockey, Chris Loseth, who ruled over the local jockey colony from 1975 until he retired last June.

In his unassuming way, Loseth announced he was retiring just moments before he went out to ride his final race. Management at Hastings felt that Loseth, the track's all-time leading rider in both wins and stakes wins, deserved a more suitable send-off.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Questuary, one of six entrants here in Sunday's $250,000 Selene at Woodbine, already has earned herself a footnote in the local stakes record books.

Owned by Wayward Stable and trained by Ian Howard, Questuary is the first horse to take advantage of the expanded supplementary entry option offered for the first time for the majority of Woodbine stakes this year.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Trainer Nick Gonzalez had a whale of a season at Fort Erie last year, finishing with a 30-percent win rate and a meet-leading 56 wins, 17 more than runner-up Lyle Morden.

Then it was off to Tampa Bay Downs, where for the first time Gonzalez raced in the winter. The results posted there by his 20-plus horse outfit weren't pretty. He won less than a handful of races, and his win rate was 7 percent.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - After a solid third against open allowance company in his first race of the year, Mindy's Island drops in class to face first-level allowance company in Sunday's featured seventh race at 5 1/2 furlongs here at Assiniboia Downs.

Trained by Sylvester Oliverre, Mindy's Island won 2 of 3 races against claimers late last season after coming here from Fort Erie.

As expected, Funny Cide scratched out of Friday's Grade 1, $500,000 Pimlico Special and will instead run in Saturday's $100,000 William Donald Schaefer Handicap on the Preakness undercard.

The scratch of Funny Cide left a field of five in the Special. Wanderin Boy, trained by Nick Zito is the 8-5 morning-line favorite.

BALTIMORE - Though he has won 50 percent of his races - including last year's Breeders' Cup Mile - Artie Schiller has had his share of tough beats. One of the toughest came here last Preakness Day when Cool Conductor nosed out Artie Schiller at the wire in the $200,000 Dixie Handicap at Pimlico

BALTIMORE - Three years ago this weekend, he was all that. Funny Cide won the 2003 Preakness by almost 10 lengths, initiating three frantic weeks of speculation that racing was about to get its first Triple Crown winner in a quarter-century.

Now 6, and carrying decidedly less star power than when he hit his peak of popularity with his Preakness romp, Funny Cide is returning to Pimlico for a Preakness Day encore. The race is the $100,000 William Donald Schaefer Handicap, which drew a field of seven older horses, with Funny Cide slated to break from the outside post.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Peter Pan Stakes has long been a key stepping-stone to the Belmont Stakes for late developers. Traditionally situated two weeks before the Belmont, it was pushed back to three weeks out this year and as a result it will be run the same day as the Preakness, which makes it something akin to the preliminary bout before the main event.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - This has been a year of flashy rallies in important races by trainer Bruce Headley's horses.

Surf Cat has used his remarkable late kick to win three graded stakes and attract attention in the national handicap division.

used the same style when he won his stakes debut in the San Pedro Stakes at Santa Anita on April 9. Saturday, he starts for the first time in a graded stakes in the $150,000 Laz Barrera Memorial Stakes for 3-year-olds at Hollywood Park.

First post time for Saturday's program is 12:20 p.m. Pacific.