HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Dallas Stewart hasn't been stabled regularly at Gulfstream Park since 1998, but his familiar green and white saddle towel was back out on the track during training hours Wednesday morning and will be seen here regularly for the next several weeks.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Three horses who won their maiden at Tampa Bay Downs are among the main contenders in Friday's $33,000 allowance feature at Gulfstream Park. The first-level allowance race is at 1 1/8 miles on the turf.

Wend, a Claiborne Farm homebred by Pulpit; Keeping Watch, a well-bred daughter of Danehill; and Contagious all won maiden special weight races over Tampa's turf course in their most recent start. Of that group, Wend appears the most dangerous, having captured her first and only try on grass by a comfortable two lengths despite setting a contested pace.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Making his first start since July, Golden Shine moved closer to a start in the major Triple Crown preps with an easy victory in an at Santa Anita on Wednesday.

Ridden by Rene Douglas, Golden Shine ($8) scored by 7 1/2 lengths in his first start around two turns, finishing 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.12. Golden Shine was not asked in the final furlong when Douglas eased him down.

"We got the trial we wanted," trainer David Hofmans said of the comeback race.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Healthy Addiction had her 2004 campaign, and a two-race winning streak, derailed with a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Railbird Stakes at Hollywood Park last May.

She emerged from the race with a bone chip in an ankle that resulted in a lengthy layoff.

Friday, returns to racing in a $56,000 optional claimer over 1 1/16 miles at Santa Anita. The race comes on her best surface and over her best distance. Last April, Healthy Addiction won a first-condition allowance race over 1 1/16 miles by 4 1/2 lengths at Santa Anita.

NEW ORLEANS - After starting out with only marginal gains in attendance and handle, Fair Grounds gave Churchill Downs Incorporated its first home run of its first season operating the track on Saturday.

The crowd of 4,695 on Louisiana Derby Preview Day was not as large as the attendance some of the bigger tracks pull on major race days, but it was a dramatic improvement on the 3,032 that came for last year's Risen Star. Fans packed the smallish Fair Grounds grandstand, and the parking lot was completely filled.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The field for Saturday's $75,000 Fred "Cappy'' Capossela Stakes was in such flux as of Wednesday that a maiden could be one of the favorites for the six-furlong race for 3-year-olds.

The connections of would-be contenders Benjamin Baby and Maddy's Lion seem more inclined to wait for next month's $150,000 Gotham Stakes. Two of the other horses nominated to the Capossela are entered in an entry-level allowance race here on Friday.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Several sharp claimers will test the allowance ranks in Friday's Bay Meadows feature, a wide-open six-furlong sprint for fillies and mares.

Juliet, Paranoid Mistress, and Future Thought are the only runners in a field of nine to have never run for a tag. But each has only won a maiden race. The other six are multiple winners against softer competition.

That provides handicappers with a quandary. Does one go for the perceived class runners or settle on a sharper runner who has passed tests against easier?

Bear Fan, the standout mare whose eight career wins include a victory in the 2004 Barbara Fritchie Handicap at Laurel Park, is one of 10 fillies and mares entered in the $200,000 Fritchie, a Grade 2 race that will be renewed Saturday in Laurel, Md.

Trainer Julio Canani had a mare test positive for a high bicarbonate level last month, the third trainer to be notified of a positive at the current Santa Anita meeting.

As a result, Canani's horses are to be quarantined in a detention barn for 24 hours before they start. The quarantine period began Wednesday and will last for at least three weeks.

Canani's positive occurred in Terpsichore, who finished third of five in the first race on Jan. 14.

Both Turfway Park and Keeneland Racecourse in Kentucky have purchased insurance policies covering jockeys for up to $1 million in medical bills for accidents at the tracks, officials for the tracks said Wednesday.

The Turfway policy was signed with the insurance company AIG on Friday, according to Bob Elliston, the general manager of Turfway. Elliston said the policy will cover all jockeys during races as well as some riders who exercise horses in the morning.