HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Capeside Lady, who is making her first start of the year, meets fellow graded-stakes winner Injustice, who appears to be sitting on a peak race, in the $100,000 Bayakoa on Sunday at Oaklawn Park.

The 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares drew a field of six. It continues the annual Racing Festival of the South, when nine stakes worth $2.8 million are decided over the final week of racing at Oaklawn.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Local leading rider Luis Quinonez could spend a few weeks riding in Kentucky for the first time following the conclusion of the Oaklawn meet next Saturday. Quinonez is the regular rider on Kentucky Derby prospect Red Raymond, who runs Saturday in the Grade 2, $1 million Arkansas Derby.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - There are three speed types and three closers among the six horses entered for Sunday's $37,000 optional claiming and allowance feature at Gulfstream Park. It is a scenario that figures to put one of the late runners in the winner's circle if the one-mile race unfolds as expected.

Notgonagetemtoday, Ricardo A, and Russian Bay should ensure an honest pace if they all start. A prospective speed battle is likely to set things up for Fire Path, My Snookie's Boy, or Itsawonderfulife.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Gumboots will begin her quest toward the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks in June in Sunday's feature here, a $79,900 allowance prep for the Star Shoot Stakes on April 23.

Gumboots, trained by Josie Carroll for Eaton Hall Farm, defeated a quality field in her first start last August, winning by a half-length in good time.

Following a two-month layoff in October, Gumboots served notice that she could be any kind when she captured the restricted Fanfreluche Stakes by 7 1/4 lengths. Her six-furlong clocking of 1:10 translated into a Beyer Speed Figure of 85.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Trainer Ben Root sends out a formidable entry in Sunday's Portland Meadows feature, a six-furlong allowance test that has drawn a field of seven fillies and mares.

Root will saddle the 4-year-old One Fast Cowgirl and the 3-year-old Delecana, both of whom are owned by the trainer's mother, Cookie Root. One Fast Cowgirl, a double winner at Emerald Downs last summer, may be the stronger half of the entry. One Fast Cowgirl is coming off a sharp second against allowance rivals on March 27, and she will again be ridden by Juan Gutierrez at 123 pounds.

CALGARY, Alberta - Dance Me Free seeks to keep his record perfect going a half-mile in a $30,000 claiming race Sunday at Stampede Park.

A British Columbia-bred son of Free at Last, Dance Me Free is 3 for 3 at the distance, including a mild upset a week ago over Wartock, the unofficial king of four-furlong dashes here.

Dance Me Free, a gelding owned by Eric and Kathy Prosser, turned 7 this year but retains some of the class that saw him named champion juvenile colt on this circuit in 2001 and carried him to an upset score in the 2004 Stampede Park Sprint Championship.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Track owner Magna Entertain-ment Corp. will not give out any official numbers in regards to attendance and handle for the 2006 Gulfstream Park season until after the meet ends on April 23. But track president Scott Savin said that from what he has seen of the figures to this point, the meet has been a success on both fronts.

Ontrack handle and total handle on Aqueduct races was up for the first quarter of 2006, the New York Racing Association reported Friday. Aqueduct's daily average ontrack handle was up 8.9 percent, from $1,060,684 in the first quarter of 2005 to $1,135,981 from Jan. 1 through March 31 this year. The average all-sources handle was up 2.7 percent, from $8,225,983 to $8,438,303.

Average attendance was down 1.6 percent, from 3,091 in 2005 to 2,991 daily.

Del Mar has increased the purses of four graded stakes and created a turf stakes for California-breds for its upcoming meeting, which runs from July 19 to Sept. 6.

The 30-race stakes schedule will offer record purses of $7.15 million. Last year, the track offered 29 stakes worth a then-record $6.675 million.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine's stakes schedule kicks in next weekend, with the $125,000 Jacques Cartier set for Saturday and the $125,000 Whimsical for Sunday.

The Jacques Cartier, a six-furlong race for 4-year-olds and upward, attracted 25 nominees. The Grade 3 Whimsical, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares, 4 and up, lured 23.

But, for the first time, there is a possibility that the entrants for those races could include some names not on those nomination lists.