PORTLAND, Ore. - Chancy Chancy will concede from four to 10 pounds to five rivals in Saturday's Sea Champagne Invitational Handicap, a one-mile race for fillies and mares at Portland Meadows.

Unification, winner of Woodbine's Grade 3 Grey Stakes at 1 1/16 miles last October, has been made the 4-1 winter book favorite for this year's 147th running of the $1 million Queen's Plate.

The Queen's Plate winter book, a hypothetical annual exercise conducted by Woodbine oddsmaker Jennifer Morrison, lists odds for the 191 horses eligible as of Feb. 1.

The Queen's Plate, a 1 1/4-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds which is the first leg of Canada's Triple Crown, will be run June 25.

Trainer Greg Foley has paid a $500 fine and is serving a 10-day suspension through Tuesday after one of his horses tested positive for acepromazine, a commonly used tranquilizer that is banned on raceday.

Foley, the leading trainer at the 2005 winter-spring meet at Turfway Park and the current meet's leader with 19 wins, was suspended by the Kentucky stewards after Sweet Miss El returned positive after finishing fifth in a Dec. 29 race at Turfway. In Foley's absence, his horses will compete in the name of his assistant, Terry Smith.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Trainer Ben Root said Fettles Kin, a dominating winner over Oregon-breds in last Saturday's one-mile Mary Goldblatt Stakes, will take on open company when she races next in the 1 1/16-mile Oregon Oaks on April 1.

"She'll have to meet much tougher company in the Oaks, but I think she deserves a shot at them," said Root. "She is obviously a different kind of filly around two turns."

Becky Maker took most of her more talented horses this winter to the Palm Meadows training center in south Florida, but she knew she was leaving at least a few good ones behind at Turfway Park.

Two of those Turfway horses have made steady progress throughout the winter, and Saturday, both Listen and Cercatore will be among the deserving favorites in a field of 11 fillies and mares for the $50,000 Wintergreen Stakes.

CHICAGO - The dark days this week at the National Jockey Club meet at Hawthorne found the trainer Bettye Gabriel down south, wading through a disaster area. Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters engulfed Gabriel's house in New Orleans East, and she is still figuring out exactly what to do with her wrecked property.

In her barn at Hawthorne, Gabriel has another force of nature by the name of Fielding. and his siblings out of the Alysheba mare Miss Purana are the kind that keep grooms, hotwalkers, and anyone else in their vicinity on alert.

OLDSMAR, Fla. - On Thin Ice, winner of the Grade 3 Hal's Hope Handicap in January but then last over a sloppy strip in the Grade 1 Donn Handicap in February, will attempt to get back on the right track Saturday, when he heads a field of 13 in the Budweiser Challenger Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.

Oliver Castillo will ride On Thin Ice, who will be seeking his sixth career win in the 1 1/16-mile Budweiser.

Promenade Girl must face a mare who upset Eclipse Award winner Ashado last year but should still be favored to secure her fourth consecutive victory in Saturday's $75,000 Conniver Stakes at Laurel Park.

The seven-furlong Conniver, restricted to Maryland-bred fillies and mares, drew a field of eight.

When Innocent Appeal came storming home to win the El Paso Times Handicap at Sunland Park on Feb. 11, it was a surprise. After all, she was 17-1. But if the 3-year-old filly comes up big again in Saturday's $50,000 Island Fashion Stakes, it will be anything but a surprise.

That's because Innocent Appeal appears to have blossomed with the addition of blinkers two starts ago, and even if this race also marks her first try beyond a sprint, she remains attractive. The mile event for 3-year-old fillies lured a field of eight.

Chit Chat Pam will try to win her third straight stakes on Saturday night in the $40,000 Sam Houston Oaks.

Chit Chat Pam is one eight 3-year-old fillies in the one-mile race. Others of interest include Sweet Idea, who has won her last two starts by a combined 29 1/2 lengths for trainer Bret Calhoun, and Behrenitall, whose last two wins have come by 20 1/2 lengths for trainer Andrew Konkoly.