The fourth race on Thursday night at Los Alamitos was declared no contest after a horse and rider went down during the early stages of the six-furlong Arabian race. Los Alamitos is five furlongs in circumference, so the injured parties would have been in the path of the remaining runners when they came around again for the stretch run.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Yesss will return to action in Sunday's best race at Portland Meadows, a one-mile invitational handicap that has attracted a field of six older runners.

Yesss has been absent since running a troubled second in the fog-shrouded Thanksgiving Handicap at a mile on Nov. 26, but not by his owner's choosing. Owner Delmer Webb entered the 7-year-old Yesss in the Oregon Sprint Championship on Dec. 11, but the race was canceled when only three challengers signed on.

The improving Yet Anothernatalie is the one to catch in Sunday's $53,250 Bold Ego Handicap at Sunland Park. The 5 1/2- furlong race drew seven fillies and mares, including Souris, a four-time stakes winner who is in position to surpass earnings of $500,000.

Yet Anothernatalie and Souris are co-highweighted at 122 pounds in the Bold Ego. Another of interest in the race is Lauren Lynn, an allowance winner at Sunland in November.

ARCADIA, Calif. - With rain having pounded the area in recent days, it is difficult to predict which of the 10 entrants will start in Saturday's $150,000 .

If the Grade 2 San Gabriel is run as designed over 1 1/8 miles on turf, it would give Habaneros a chance at his second graded-stakes win of the year at Santa Anita.

If the race were transferred to dirt, the top contenders would be recent stakes winners Lundy's Liability or Truly a Judge.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Diligent Prospect returned from a seven-month layoff to win an over seven furlongs at Santa Anita on Thursday, a race that trainer Doug O'Neill says will be the colt's last sprint for awhile.

Ridden by Jon Court, Diligent Prospect ($4.20) stalked Processor to the turn, took the lead entering the stretch, and won by two lengths over Stormin Away. Diligent Prospect was timed in 1:23.30 on a muddy track. While the final time was not particularly quick, O'Neill said he was not concerned.

MIAMI - If they gave an award for the most electrifying performer of the 2003 Gulfstream Park meeting, Madcap Escapade would have gotten the honor hands down.

Unraced coming into the meet, the 3-year-old Madcap Escapade won her maiden by 10 lengths on Jan. 4, the Old Hat Stakes by 11 3/4 lengths on Feb. 14, and the Grade 2 Forward Gal Stakes by nearly five lengths on March 13.

MIAMI - Anybody trying to determine whether Crown Point's fourth-place finish in the Grand Canyon Handicap at Churchill Downs can be disregarded when handicapping Saturday's $100,000 at Calder need not wonder any longer.

"The turf course was a bog, and he just wasn't as sharp as he was in his previous two victories," said trainer David Donk when asked to assess Crown Point's performance in the Grand Canyon. "I think it's a throw out."

MIAMI - It's early in the year. Way early. Trainer Tom Proctor knows that some of the fillies who will face Rich in Spirit in the Tropical Park Oaks might eventually surpass her in scope and deed, but until that happens, Proctor will stand pat with what he's got.

"Right now, my filly's a little more proven than the others," said Proctor. "Right now. That's the way you've got to look at it, I think."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Little has gone right for Belong to Sea since she began her career with three straight wins in the winter and spring of 2003. Now that Belong to Sea is nearly done racing, things seemingly could not be going any better for the filly.

At least that's what trainer Lisa Lewis believes as she prepares to saddle Belong to Sea against six rivals in Saturday's $75,000 Interborough Handicap, the New Year's Day feature at Aqueduct.

NEW ORLEANS - Trainer Steve Asmussen has entered a pair of stakes-winning fillies, Coronado Rose and More Moonlight, in Saturday's $50,000 Letellier Memorial Stakes on New Year's Day at Fair Grounds.

For 3-year-old fillies at six furlongs, the Letellier, formerly the Thelma Stakes, drew only three challengers to Asmussen's pair, including two fillies trained by Dallas Stewart: Hot Storm and Steal the Show.

The weight assignments have Asmussen concerned.