AUBURN, Wash. - After Queenledo posted her third straight impressive stakes score in the one-mile Irish Day Handicap on June 12, trainer Tim McCanna said he was inclined to give her a break and skip this Sunday's $60,000 Kent Handicap at 1 1/16 miles. In the interim, however, Queenledo has convinced her trainer that she has no need for a rest.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - With good reason, trainer Brian Giesbrecht is very high on Bound to Be M V P. A 2-year-old Washington-bred, Bound to Be M V P figures to be a short-priced favorite in the Ladnesian Stakes at Hastings on Sunday.

"I think he's the best horse I've ever been around," said Giesbrecht.

That's high praise, considering Giesbrecht was the assistant trainer in 2002 and the head trainer in 2003 for Elana d'Amour. She was the local horse of the year in 2002, won the Grade 3 Breeders' Cup B.C. Oaks, and retired with earnings of more than $300,000.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer wouldn't mind seeing a little deja vu all over again Sunday at the Alameda County Fair.

Last year, Adreamisborn won the closing-day Alamedan Handicap, using the race as a springboard to a victory in the Grade 3 Longacres Mile. The 6-year-old Adreamisborn is back to defend his title in the 1 1/16-mile $50,000 Alamedan, and a repeat in the Longacres Mile looms on the horizon as well.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The rumor mill has been working overtime here recently, and Chris Evans, Woodbine's vice president of Thoroughbred racing, would like to set the record straight regarding the future of the main track.

Woodbine's main track has been a source of concern this year, with complaints centering on the loose and cuppy nature of the surface.

"We're going to work with this track for two years, and if we can't get it right, then we're going to start exploring our options," said Evans.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Prime Time T.V. looks to regain the form he displayed here prior to heading west for the Alberta Derby in Sunday's $40,000 Derby Trial Stakes for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles.

The Derby Trial is a prep for the $100,000 Manitoba Lotteries Derby, a 1 1/8-mile race here Aug. 1.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - John Jacinto, the leading rider at Louisiana Downs, will be taking this short three-day race week off to serve a suspension levied by the Lone Star Park stewards for an incident there on June 25 in the Miller Lite Stakes.

Jacinto was aboard Our Love for trainer Jeff Trosclair in five-furlong sprint on the turf when, in the opinion of the stewards, Our Love interfered with Hortense in the stretch. Our Love was subsequently disqualified from second and placed fifth.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Just when the cast that chased Rock Hard Ten all winter at Santa Anita thought they had Saturday's $750,000 to themselves, an Eastern invader in Limehouse is threatening to plunder the race.

Since Rock Hard Ten won the Santa Anita Handicap in March, there has been no standout in the California handicap division.

Don't Get Mad always has had something to prove. First, he raced in the shadow of his stablemate, champion Declan's Moon. He then had to prove he was more than a late-running sprinter, a notion he erased with a victory in the Northern Dancer Stakes at Churchill Downs following his fourth-place finish in the Kentucky Derby.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Puxa Saco needed 20 starts to win her first graded stakes, in the Grade 3 Desert Stormer Handicap at Hollywood Park last month.

Saturday at Hollywood Park, Puxa Saco will try for another graded stakes win in the $150,000 A Gleam Handicap for fillies and mares.

won the six-furlong Desert Stormer by three lengths, cruising to the front in early stretch. The Grade 2 A Gleam is run over seven furlongs.

Trainer Jenine Sahadi kicked around sending Puxa Saco to Calder for the Summit of Speed program on Saturday, but decided to stay home.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park will undergo minimal changes in coming months as the sale of the racetrack from Churchill Downs to the Bay Meadows Land Co. nears completion, according to two officials.

The $260 million sale was announced on Wednesday. Bay Meadows will continue to conduct live racing at Hollywood Park for a minimum of three years, during which the company will lobby state government for alternative sources of gaming, Terrance Fancher, president of the land company, said on Wednesday.