OMAHA, Neb. - Stormy Impact comes off a strong victory in the Dr. Fager Stakes at Arlington Park to headline a field of eight in Sunday's $100,000 Omaha Stakes. The Omaha is the highlight of the four-day Horsemen's Park Festival of Racing, which concludes Sunday.

won the Omaha last year, and this year took Nebraska's only other $100,000 race, the Bosselman/Gus Fonner Stakes in April. Stormy Impact should be favored in a strong field that also includes 2003 Omaha winner Dusty Spike.

Satan's Code, a two-time stakes winner on dirt at Colonial Downs, is only 1 for 5 on turf. But he still might be good enough to capture Sunday's $60,000 Punch Line Stakes, a five-furlong turf race.

Most of the six horses the 7-year-old Satan's Code faces in the Punch Line, restricted to Virginia-bred or Virginia-sired runners, are either unraced on grass or too slow.

, however, shows two good grass races in his last 10 starts. He was second with a 92 Beyer Speed Figure in the 2004 Punch Line and won a high-priced optional claimer at Delaware Park with a 91.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Garry Cruise's first riding stint at Woodbine ended in a blaze of controversy after the stewards ruled he had obtained a license as an apprentice jockey under false pretenses.

But the Ontario Racing Commission apparently has decided to forgive and forget, as Cruise has been granted a jockey's license and will begin his comeback here Sunday.

"It's nice to be back," said Cruise, whose two mounts Sunday include Burst of Fire for Sam-Son Farm in the $343,200 Chinese Cultural Centre Stakes.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Cricket Wicket, a speedball and turf specialist, gets top billing in Sunday's $125,000 Rainbow Connection, a five-furlong turf stakes for Ontario-sired fillies and mares. The Rainbow Connection is the last of seven stakes on the Fort Erie calendar.

Cricket Wicket, who is partly owned by her trainer, David Bell, has won four times and finished in the money in half of her 12 grass starts.

Cricket Wicket's major triumph came in the $80,000 Zadracarta at Woodbine on June 19. She hung on bravely to win the six-furlong turf race by a head.

DEL MAR, Calif. - A string of winning outsiders on Thursday at Del Mar has created a pick six carryover of $111,414 for Friday's eight-race program. Friday's card begins at 4 p.m.

Here's a glance at Friday's card, with the changes from Thursday's scratch time.

The third race is the first turf route of the meeting. Run over 1 3-8 miles on turf, the race drew eight claimers entered for $35,000 to $40,000. Golden Rahy, trained by Bobby Frankel, is the 3-1 favorite.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Just when it seemed that Island Fashion's career had taken a turn for the worse, she nearly pulled an upset at 14-1 in the Vanity Handicap at Hollywood Park on July 3.

Later that day, Ticker Tape overcame trouble to finish a game second to Intercontinental in the Grade 3 Royal Heroine Stakes on turf.

Those performances encouraged their respective trainers to think that can give Intercontinental fits in Saturday's $400,000 John Mabee Handicap at Del Mar.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Few people were more eager to get to Del Mar this summer than trainer John Sadler, whose Hollywood Park meeting was far below his standards. The fresh start afforded by moving here coincides with the return to action of Lady Truffles, last year's California Cup Juvenile Fillies winner, who will make her first start since November on Saturday in the $100,000 Fleet Treat Stakes.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Minister Eric, the winner of the Grade 2 San Fernando Breeders' Cup Stakes at Santa Anita in January, will miss a scheduled start in Sunday's $250,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar because of a swollen ankle, trainer Richard Mandella said.

Minister Eric's defection from the San Diego cast a pall over the Mandella barn on Thursday. Mandella won the second division of the Oceanside Stakes on opening day Wednesday with unbeaten El Roblar.

Mandella said tests on the horse's left ankle would determine the extent of the injury.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Two and a quarter lengths separated Smuggler, Spun Sugar, and Summerly at the finish of the Grade 1 Mother Goose, a 1 1/8-mile race on June 25. On Saturday at Belmont, all three will be back, but they will have to get another furlong in the Grade 1, $500,000 .

Nine 3-year-old fillies entered the CCA Oaks. Also entered are For All We Know, Pleasant Chimes, Capitulation, Seeking the Ante, Bayou Breeze, and Atlas Valley. Bayou Breeze and Spun Sugar are coupled in the wagering.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Colin Stakes has a storied history. A six-furlong event, it has been won by such outstanding runners as Deputy Minister, Sunny's Halo, La Prevoyante, and Kennedy Road. Last year's winner, Wholelottabourbon, was voted Canadian champion 2-year-old.