AUBURN, Wash. - Imagunna will be tested for class Friday at Emerald Downs in a 5 1/2-furlong first-level allowance race for 3-year-old fillies.

Candid Glen is back in training. A winner of over $1.1 million on turf, he had his first work in about a year last week at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La.

"I think he's very happy to be back," said Andrew Leggio Jr., who trains Candid Glen, a 9-year-old gelding, for Glen Warren.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Trainer Steve Asmussen will be sticking with a proven angle on Saturday when he puts Shaun Bridgmohan on Admiral's Arch in the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Derby at Lone Star Park.

"Both races that he's won, Shaun was on him," said Asmussen.

Bridgmohan guided Admiral's Arch to a half-length win in the $100,000 Northern Spur Breeders' Cup at Oaklawn Park in his last start on April 15. The rider was also aboard him in November, when Admiral's Arch won a 7 1/2-furlong maiden race at Churchill Downs.

Although horses who have been racing recently at Charles Town are given preference in the track's new series of $50,000 stakes this season, trainer Scott Lake's shipper The Student managed to get into the field of older sprinters for Friday night's Costy Caras Memorial.

And that's bad news for the locally based horses who must face The Student, a 7-year-old gelding who has been no worse than third in his last 10 starts at five different tracks.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - "Follow the money" was the advice given during the Watergate scandal.

"Follow the jockey" is the advice for Friday's feature at Bay Meadows.

Russell Baze, Bay Meadows's leading jockey the past 27 meets - as well as the past 35 he has participated in here - has ridden four of the five entrants in a $40,000 claimer at 1 1/16 miles.

That he chooses to ride Tiz Us, who has won 3 of his past 4 starts and has a solid series of works since he won his last start on March 22, provides a strong clue as to which runner may be the one to beat.

The purse for the Northlands Oaks has been boosted to $100,000, giving Northlands Park four six-figure stakes for its 72-day 2006 meeting, which begins June 23 and runs through Oct. 22.

The 34-race stakes schedule, worth a total of $2.22 million, is headed, as usual, by the Grade 3, $300,000 Canadian Derby, a 1 3/8-mile race for 3-year-olds on Aug. 26.

The only other significant change to the stakes schedule is in name only, as the Klondike now will be known as the City of Edmonton.

AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Howard Belvoir said Courting Seattle and Tusko T., the first and third finishers in Sunday's six-furlong Auburn Stakes for 3-year-olds, came out of their efforts in apple pie order and will be pointed toward the $55,000 Pepsi-Cola Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs on June 4.

"I'd rather not run them against each other, but I really don't have any other options right now," said the trainer. "Down the road I might think about running Courting Seattle at Hastings Park, but I can't do that with Tusko T. He's just not the kind of horse who will ship and run."

Racing returns to the state capital on Friday evening, when the Lincoln State Fair launches its 37-day meet, which runs through July 16.

Fans will be greeted by a new mobile toteboard from United Tote located in the infield. United Tote has taken over operations here from AmTote and will accommodate ontrack account wagering. Bettors make their wagers using a card that transfers funds via computer and tracks their bets.

Unlike the great John Henry, who won his first stakes race at the old Evangeline Downs before going on to bigger and better things, never to return to Louisiana, Watchem Smokey has proven this year that you can go home again.

Watchem Smokey's latest conquest came last Saturday night in, fittingly enough, the John Henry Stakes. Not only did he win, he shattered the track record by a full second. The John Henry was the third stakes win this year for Watchem Smokey, 6, all at Evangeline Downs.

Fairmount Park ran a special afternoon program last Saturday to coincide with the simulcast of the Kentucky Derby, and the announced attendance was over 7,500. In addition to watching the festivities that took place at Churchill Downs, fans witnessed some of the fastest locally stabled runners compete in two races on the Fairmount program.