ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Okay, it's not the Kentucky Oaks, but it will have to do for this weekend's stakes racing at Arlington Park. Eight fillies were entered Wednesday in Saturday's $100,000 Arlington Oaks, the biggest dirt race of this meet for the 3-year-old female set.

MIAMI - Pampered Princess is the undisputed leader of the local filly and mare handicap division despite her recent loss to American Miss in the Nancy's Glitter Handicap. But with Pampered Princess off to Kentucky this weekend for Ellis Park's Grade 3 Gardenia Stakes, American Miss becomes the one to beat in Friday's $40,000 Sambacarioca Stakes.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Our Love's remarkable gate-to-wire effort in last Sunday's Sangue Handicap in turf-course-record time almost might not have happened at all.

Frustrated that he could not find a spot for Our Love, who had never raced beyond six furlongs until Sunday's victory, trainer Jeff Trosclair was basically forced into running in the two-turn Sangue out of necessity. Our Love needed a race, almost any race, to get ready for her fall campaign, including defending her title in the five-furlong Majorette on Super Derby weekend, Oct. 2.

Tom Durant makes an impact on the owner standings wherever his stable settles, and he is back at Remington Park this meet for the first time in several years. Durant won the title at the Oklahoma City track in 1999 with 20 wins from 96 starters, and comes into the current meet fresh off winning his fourth ownership title at Lone Star Park near Dallas.

After the first week of the mixed meeting here in mid-July, the jockey and trainer races appeared to be foregone conclusions when Glenn Corbett and Dick Clark built commanding advantages.

With the 48-day mixed meeting now half over, Corbett still holds a commanding advantage, 30-17, over Cindy Noll and appears well on his way to fifth mixed-meet riding title in the past six years.

Rafael Hernandez, who began the year as an apprentice jockey and had 93 wins through Tuesday, is on pace to surpass the current win total of 102 by Ramsey Zimmerman, Fairmount Park's perennial top jock, by the close of the meet on Sept. 17 and claim the riding title.

The fundraising committee of the Dean Kutz Memorial Chapel will conduct an auction of stallion seasons to help fund construction. The auction will commence following the fundraising kick-off dinner, which will be held at Canterbury Park on Saturday and features guest speakers Sandy Hawley and Pat Day. The stallions whose services will be auctioned are Dayjur, Dumaani, Sahm, Kayrawan, Mancini, Is It True, and Kela. Tickets are $50. For more information, call Larissa Bartram at (612) 749-1148.

The $3.4 million handle at Mountaineer Race Track on its West Virginia Derby Day card on Sunday is an all-time record for the track, according to Rose Mary Williams, director of racing at Mountaineer.

The nine-race card was made up of nothing but stakes, and for the first time Mountaineer sent its full card to simulcast sites in California. Last year, handle on the West Virginia Derby Day card was $2,582,601.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - It wouldn't be Saratoga if Top Shoter didn't show up and win a race at the meet.

On Thursday in the $65,000-added John Morrissey, Top Shoter will try to win for the fourth consecutive year at Saratoga.

Top Shoter, 4 for 5 at Saratoga, is among eight New York-bred males entered in the 6 1/2-furlong Morrissey.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Lost in the Fog was scheduled to arrive in Saratoga from California on Tuesday evening along with his trainer, Greg Gilchrist.

Lost in the Fog will run in the Grade 1 King's Bishop on the Travers Day undercard on Aug. 27. A 3-year-old, he is undefeated in eight starts, including seven stakes.

Gilchrist has never run a horse at Saratoga and said he intends to work Lost in the Fog here Sunday. Lost in the Fog worked at Golden Gate Fields last Sunday, covering five furlongs in 1:00.