AUBURN, Wash. - Sassy Little Sarah is the one to catch when she drops back to the level of her last win in Friday's Emerald Downs feature, a 6 1/2-furlong race for $25,000 fillies and mares that has drawn a field of six.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Although this year's Triple Crown has thus far been a train wreck for Nick Zito, he is still conducting business as usual. After going 0 for 5 with an extremely strong hand in the Kentucky Derby and 0 for 3 in the Preakness Stakes, Zito is back with three runners in the Belmont Stakes.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Pellegrino, the winner of the Grade 1 Hollywood Turf Cup last December, means everything to trainer Don Burke II.

When Pellegrino starts in Saturday's $350,000 Charles Whittingham Handicap at Hollywood Park, he will represent the entire Burke stable.

"This is my last horse," he said. "I'm down to a one-horse stable. That's a better percentage than Bobby Frankel has for Grade 1 winners in his barn."

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - This Wizard Rocks, a stakes winner at Fairplex Park last September, ended an eight-month break with a second in an allowance race for sprinters last month.

From trainer Dan Dunham's perspective, the performance was a solid start to the season, which he hopes will begin in earnest on Friday night when This Wizard Rocks starts in a $51,000 allowance race for California-breds at 1 1/16 miles at Hollywood Park.

A victory could lead to a start for This Wizard Rocks in the Oceanside Stakes on turf at Del Mar next month.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Steve Asmussen is reluctant to say who will ride Summerly if the Kentucky Oaks winner gets to run Saturday in the Dogwood Breeders' Cup Stakes. As a veteran racetracker, Asmussen does not want to jinx himself by making pronouncements or predictions of any sort.

"That'd be getting way ahead of what the reality is," Asmussen said Wednesday morning at Churchill Downs. "Why name a fictitious rider for a fictitious race?"

Jockey Russell Baze was taken to Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, Calif., after a spill in Wednesday's third race at Golden Gate Fields.

Baze, who has ridden 9,010 winners and was scheduled to ride undefeated Lost in the Fog in the Grade 2 Riva Ridge on Saturday at Belmont, suffered a complete fracture of his collarbone near his left shoulder, according to Dr. David Seftel, the track's physician. The injury came when Baze's mount, Cowboy Badgett, broke his left front ankle as he loomed into contention at the quarter pole.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Premier Dance, the favorite for Saturday's colts and geldings division of the $150,000 Texas Thoroughbred Association Sales Futurity at Lone Star Park, has been sold. Premier Dance was purchased for an undisclosed sum by Charles Fletcher, according to the colt's new trainer, Cody Autrey.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ready and Alluring will be making just her third career start and her stakes and local debut in Sunday's $500,000 Labatt Woodbine Oaks.

She will have plenty of supporters, though, based on what she has shown in her brief career.

"I'd like to have had a few more races in her," said trainer Randy Schulhofer. "Being in the situation we're in, we'll do the best with what we've got."

ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Aggie Ordonez has done it again.

"I seem to have the knack of picking out the toughest races for him - I always meet the toughest bear in the neighborhood," she said of Friday's task for Callfire, who just graduated by 10 lengths in an overpowering performance at Bay Meadows on May 5.

will be meeting some pretty tough racehorses Friday in a first-level allowance race at one mile at Golden Gate Fields.

Jockeys Cayetano Chaparro and Dave Wilson received suspensions for an altercation that occurred during the running of the sixth race at Hastings last Friday.

The incident began when Chaparro, aboard Hey Mikey, elbowed Wilson, who was riding Some Devil You Are, just past the seven-sixteenths pole. Wilson responded by forcing Chaparro into the rail on the stretch turn. Following the race, Wilson also instigated a physical altercation with Chaparro in the jockeys' quarters.