For most of 2003 and 2004 Shemoveslikeaghost was queen of the New Mexico-breds. She hasn't run since November 2004, however, and in the interim Latenite Special has taken up the mantle of queen of the hill. The two have never met, but that all changes in Sunday's $125,000 New Mexico Racing Commission Handicap at Sunland Park. Their presence has not scared off would-be throne-takers, as a full field of 12 New Mexico-bred fillies and mares has been entered in the six-furlong event.

MIAMI - The Princess Rooney Stakes became the first Grade 1 race in the history of Calder Race Course when the race was upgraded for 2006 by the American Graded

Stakes Committee, the committee announced on Friday.

"We're all very proud of this accomplishment," said Calder president Ken Dunn. "I believe that makes the Princess Rooney only the second Grade 1 filly and mare sprint race in the country, along with the Ballerina. I think the race deserves Grade 1 status and I'm pleased it has finally received proper recognition."

Mr. Trieste, who has not lost in more than 15 months, will bid for his eighth straight win Sunday in the $100,000 Distance Championship Handicap at Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M.

A 1 1/8-mile race, the Distance Championship tops the closing day program of the track's inaugural meet. There are also two other stakes on the card. The $75,000 Zia Park Express has been brought back after high winds forced its cancellation last Sunday, and the $100,000 Zia Park Championship for Quarter Horses drew Planet Holland.

All Wired Up, cleared quickly under Marlon St. Julien, and then led throughout to capture Thursday night's $75,000 Peninsula Gaming Inaugural at Evangeline Downs by 4 1/2 lengths in track record time.

Believe Im Special outfinished Zarb's Luck for the place by a head. It was three-quarters of a length farther back to favored Britt's Jules, who reported home fourth.

MIAMI A pair of Grade 1 stakes winners, , will showcase their talents for a mere $100,000 purse in a field of 12 fillies and mares in Saturdays Grade 3 My Charmer Handicap on turf at Calder.

The 1 1/8-mile My Charmer is the first of four $100,000 stakes to be decided on Saturdays Grand Slam I card, along with the Three Ring Stakes, Foolish Pleasure Stakes, and Grade 3 Tropical Turf Handicap. The four races, 7 through 10 on the 12-race program, make up a pick four wager.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. When major stakes winner Captain Squire went out of training with a knee injury in 2004, trainer Jeff Mullins thought he had seen the last of him.

I didnt think hed be back in my barn, Mullins said.

But much to Mullinss delight, Captain Squire returned this summer and is having one of the best stretches of his five-year career.

Saturday, Captain Squire will attempt to win his fifth stakes in the $100,000 over six furlongs at Hollywood Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. were the two dominant filly sprinters in New York in 2005. Saturday, they meet at Aqueduct for the first time in a strong edition of the $75,000 Garland of Roses, the last sprint stakes of the year for females in New York.

Bank Audit, a 4-year-old, has won 5 of 11 starts this year, including the Distaff Breeders Cup and Genuine Risk both Grade 2 events as well as the listed Interborough Handicap. Acey Deucey, a 3-year-old who has yet to face her elders, won the Grade 1 Prioress, Grade 2 Comely, and the listed Dearly Precious.

MIAMI - Hotstufanthensome has won more money this year than any of his 11 rivals in Saturday's $100,000 . He's also coming off the best performance of his career, a 14 1/2-length victory over a boggy course in the Grade 3 Cliff Hanger Handicap at The Meadowlands. But Hotstufanthensome, the 118-pound highweight, might still need a few breaks if he is to come out on top in a wide open Grade 3 Tropical Turf.

MIAMI - Trainer Todd Pletcher will reach down into his vast pool of 2-year-old talent to send out Capozzene and Saint Augustus as leading contenders in two of the four stakes at Calder on Saturday. Capozzene will run in the $100,000 Three Ring, and Saint Augustus will run in the $100,000 What a Pleasure Stakes.

Larry Jones can laugh now. Last Sunday, when tornado warnings were out for the area around Oaklawn Park, humor was in short supply.

Jones bases much of his training operation out of Ellis Park in western Kentucky, and was one of the horsemen most directly affected when a tornado ripped through the Ellis backstretch last month. With his base essentially destroyed, Oaklawn allowed Jones to move in early. And here came another round of storms.