ALBANY, Calif. - Trainer Greg Gilchrist is downplaying the chances of Danny Dingle in Thursday's feature at Golden Gate Fields.

That's bad news for Danny Dingle's seven rivals in the first-level allowance race for 2-year-olds at six furlongs.

"He's probably no better than the third choice in there," said Gilchrist, who last week proclaimed that Frisco Belle, winner of Sunday's Star Ball Handicap, was overmatched and needed at least one more race under her belt to be at her best.

Danny Dingle only has the third-best Beyer Speed Figure in the field.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Tetherette will take on the boys while returning from a layoff in Thursday's second race at Woodbine, a six-furlong allowance for Ontario-sired runners.

Tetherette, a 4-year-old owned in part by trainer Bruce Pollock, took plenty of cracks at the non-winners-of-two allowance category. She hit the board in both of her starts in August after flashing her customary early speed.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Declan's Moon pummeled a good older horse in a team workout Tuesday morning at Hollywood Park, blazing five furlongs in 58.80 seconds and looking like a genuine odds-on favorite for the Grade 3 Hollywood Prevue on Saturday. The seven-furlong Prevue is the first start for Declan's Moon since a Sept. 8 victory in the Del Mar Futurity, and trainer Ron Ellis left nothing to chance in the 7:30 a.m. work. He said it was the first time Declan's Moon had worked in company and only the second time jockey Victor Espinoza has been on his back.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Shaconage, already a two-time graded stakes winner over the Churchill Downs turf course this year, was one of a handful of horses prepping for the coming weekend stakes when she breezed a half-mile Tuesday morning in 50.60 seconds over a grass course rated good.

Shaconage, sixth in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf in her last start, will be among the favorites Saturday when the Grade 3, $150,000 Cardinal Handicap is run for the 31st time. Shaconage won the Argent Mortgage and Locust Grove at the spring meet for trainer Mitch Shirota.

The 2-year-old Leaving on My Mind, who has earned close to $300,000, will try to complete a difficult but rewarding double over the next several weeks. Trainer Danny Pish said Tuesday he planned to start Leaving on My Mind in the $150,000 Sam Houston Texan Juvenile at Sam Houston on Saturday and also the $1 million Delta Jackpot at Delta Downs on Dec. 4.

Before Leaving on My Mind's five-length victory in the Nov. 6 Jean Lafitte, the $100,000 prep for the Jackpot, Pish said it was possible that the horse would make one more start leading up to the Jackpot.

CHICAGO - In the spring of 2003 at Fair Grounds, there were a couple promising 3-year-old fillies residing in the barn of trainer Bret Calhoun. They were linked by name, Afternoon Dreams and Rebridled Dreams, and in the Grade 2 Silverbulletday Stakes that year the two finished second and third.

MIAMI - The 3-year-old Weigelia turned in one of the most impressive performances on Saturday's Florida Million card, defeating nine older rivals in the $150,000 Jack Dudley Sprint Handicap. He earned a 108 Beyer Speed Figure, matching his career-best figure, posted over this same track July 10 in the Carry Back Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - It's safe to say that no one connected with Financingavailable has required the kind of service her name advertises.

Purchased for $5,000 at the open yearling sale here, Financingavail-able was unraced last year at 2. In her first six starts, for owner and trainer Mark Casse, she collected $97,451.

Financingavailable was then acquired privately by owner K.K. Sangara, who said the purchase price was $150,000.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The eighth race Wednesday at Churchill Downs is the kind of race that horseplayers see every day. It's an entry-level allowance for horses that have not won a race other than maiden, claiming, or starter.

This particular race, however, drew a horse that did something that maybe no other horse has done in maiden claiming company. The horse is Tricky Devil and what he did was earn a sensational Beyer Speed Figure of 113 in winning a $40,000 maiden claiming sprint on Oct. 8 at Keeneland in his last start.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - With a pick six carryover of $105,610 up for grabs, there figures to be more interest than usual in Wednesday's nine-race card at Aqueduct. The pick six went unhit on both Saturday and Sunday, and there are several more inscrutable races awaiting handicappers on Wednesday.

Expecting a pool in the vicinity of $300,000, let's go with a $216 ticket to try and get flush for the upcoming holiday season.