After unsuccessfully chasing Malibu Moonshine in three consecutive open stakes, Legal Control returns to restricted company for the $50,000 Deputed Testamony at Pimlico. The 1 1/16-mile race drew a field of six 3-year-old Maryland-breds.

The last time Legal Control faced statebreds, he won the Maryland Juvenile Championship on New Year's Eve. His form remained sharp in his first meeting against Malibu Moonshine in February, but Legal Control ran progressively worse in their next two confrontations.

EAST BOSTON, Mass. - Four men synonymous with New England racing and one of the area's most accomplished homegrown racing stars are among the first inductees into the New England Turf Writers Association Hall of Fame.

The five inductees are: former jockey Rudy Baez, prominent owner Peter Fuller, the late former chairman of Suffolk Downs Jim Moseley, Boston Globe turf writer Sam McCracken, and Massachusetts Handicap winner Waquoit. Plaques of the five inductees will be displayed in the Sports Museum of New England.

The $50,000 Brooks Fields Stakes on Saturday at Canterbury Park features the first meeting between Vazandar, winner of the Come Summer Stakes last year, and Dontbotherknocking, who has six wins over the Canterbury turf. A full field of 12 was entered in the 7 1/2-furlong turf stakes.

Three alumni from the $100,000 Lady Hallie Stakes at Hawthorne on April 30 - including the runner-up, Li'lbito'sunshine - will face each other again in the $40,000 Slight in the Rear Stakes at Fairmount Park. A six-furlong race for 3-year-old fillies, the Slight in the Rear is the first stakes of the Fairmount meet, which opened March 25.

Foolininthemeadow, the 2004 2-year-old filly champion in Michigan, makes her seasonal debut when she faces nine other Michigan-bred 3-year-old fillies in the $45,000 Regret Stakes at Great Lakes Downs. A six-furlong race, the Regret is the sixth race on the card, which has an early first post of 5:50 p.m. Eastern to accommodate a simulcast of the Belmont Stakes.

The Straw Man will be seeking his third stakes win of the year when he heads a field of seven in the $20,000-added State Fair Breeders' Special for 3-year-old Nebraska-breds going one mile.

Trained by Jason Wise, The Straw Man was a 7 1/4-length winner of the Nebraska Derby at Fonner Park earlier this spring. He comes off a third in the six-furlong Journal Star Stakes here May 22, when the top three finishers were separated by a head after dueling through the final quarter-mile.

Iowa-bred Will E Scat takes on open company in a field of eight 3-year-olds in the $50,000 Prairie Mile at Prairie Meadows.

Will E Scat is the only stakes winner entered in the race by virtue of his three-quarter-length score against statebreds here May 29 in the $50,000 Gray's Lake. Trained by Kelly Von Hemel, Will E Scat's three wins are the most wins of any horse in the race. He has also finished second twice.

Flip Side, winner of the 1 1/16-mile Tomboy Stakes at River Downs in her last start, goes for two in a row in the $45,000 J. William Petro Memorial Handicap at Thistledown. The Petro, for Ohio-bred 3-year-old fillies, will be run at 1 1/16 miles.

A daughter of Devil His Due, Flip Side won the Tomboy by a length. In her prior start, May 10, she finished third, beaten 7 1/4 lengths, after showing speed into the stretch of an open allowance sprint at River Downs. Trained by William Napier, Flip Side will be ridden Lori Wydick at 119 pounds.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Believe in Missy put away heavily favored Deputy Cures Blues on the front end and held off Roman Romance in the stretch to take the $125,400 Ballade Stakes on Wednesday night at Woodbine.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Barbeau Ruckus should be a major force Saturday at Woodbine in the $125,000 Steady Growth Stakes, a 1 1/16-mile race for Ontario-sired runners that he won in 2003.

After winning the 2004 New Providence Stakes, Barbeau Ruckus was a well-beaten fourth in last year's Steady Growth. He subsequently placed in two stakes in July, then missed the second half of 2004 with a minor injury.