ARCADIA, Calif. - The half-siblings Capitano and Heavenly Ransom will appear in stakes on consecutive racing days in the next week, and both have a chance to post an upset.

Sunday, Capitano, 5, is a probable starter in the $250,000 San Juan Capistrano Handicap at about 1 3/4 miles on turf, the feature on the closing day of the Santa Anita meeting.

Wednesday, on the opening day of the Hollywood Park meeting, Heavenly Ransom, Capitano's 4-year-old half-sister, is likely to start in the $100,000 Wilshire Handicap.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Thrillin Discovery, a mainstay in the south Florida handicap division during the late 1990's and earlier this decade, has been retired at age 11.

, a grey son of Alaskan Frost, ended his career with a fourth-place finish while racing under a $6,250 claiming tag here last Saturday. He retires with a career record of 19 wins and 15 seconds from 91 starts and earnings of over $543,000.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Reade Baker was the top stakes-winning trainer here at last year's Woodbine meeting with 10 victories. Josie Carroll saddled eight stakes winners, tying her for second with Sid Attard.

It should have come as no surprise, then, that Baker and Carroll were front and center here last weekend, splitting the first two stakes of the meeting.

Baker got the ball rolling by sending out Judiths Wild Rush, Canada's champion sprinter of 2005, to capture Saturday's $126,200 Jacques Cartier. High Volt Jolt, trained by Carroll, finished second.

ALBANY, Calif. - A pair of stakes-placed runners and an undefeated filly stretching out meet in Friday's Golden Gate Fields feature, a first-level allowance race at one mile.

, second to Bai and Bai in the Telegraph Hill Stakes, and Comic Queen, third behind Press Camp and Bai and Bai in the San Ramon, both have wins at the distance and are stakes-placed in routes.

Secret Scheme stretches out after winning a $25,000 maiden claimer and a $40,000 starter allowance.

AUBURN, Wash. - This could be the Year of the Comeback at Emerald Downs.

Two of the top riders and three of the best horses on the grounds will be coming back from serious injuries, and, with luck, any or all could have a big impact on the 91-day meeting, which gets under way on Friday.

Large and competitive fields will be the rule during Indiana Downs 49-day meeting, which begins Friday evening.

"We are looking to average over nine starters per race," said racing secretary Butch Cook.

Indiana Downs, located in Shelbyville and now in its fourth season, averaged 8.3 starters per race in 2004 and 8.7 horses per race last year.

If he's healthy, Acts Like a King will come back on a week's rest Saturday at River Downs.

Bring Spring, who last year finished a distant third in the Queen City Oaks in her second career start, makes her first appearance since that July 30 race in Friday's featured first-level allowance for Ohio-bred fillies and mares at River Downs.

Bring Spring's placing in the nine-furlong Oaks occurred a little more than three weeks after she scored a 46-1 upset in a six-furlong maiden at River.

Harkey Malarky appears to have the $4,000 starter allowance division at Fairmount Park at his mercy for the foreseeable future after posting another easy victory on last Friday's card.

Harkey Malarky, who earned an 88 Beyer Speed Figure winning a starter allowance by five lengths on March 25, replicated that winning margin Friday to stay undefeated in three starts this year. He is trained by Mike Nance.

Trainer Jonathan Buckley needed just one day to surpass the number of winners he saddled during the first two months of the 2005 Finger Lakes season.

Buckley teamed up with jockey Gabriel Suarez for three wins on Monday's program, one more than the trainer had during all of April and May last year.

The 8-year-old gelding Regal Romeo ($15.80) won the second race for $4,000 claimers, then the 7-year-old mare Blonde Dynamite ($4.60) closed to win the third before A Very Young Jet ($5.60) went gate to wire in the featured eighth, a first-level allowance.

Dennis Collins posted a dominant riding performance last weekend at Fonner Park by winning 12 races, including four on Friday and five on Saturday, as he moved solidly into second in the rider standings. He trails R.D. Williams, 47-33, with three weekends remaining in the season.

Collins posted a triple on Thursday's nine-race card and continued to improve through the weekend. Saturday's five-win outburst included three wins for trainer Ron Wise. Wise saddled four winners on the card and five for the weekend.