Run Around Sue challenged through the far turn, then battled favored Irish Flyer to midstretch before edging clear for a 1 1/2-length win in Friday's $29,200 Falls Amiss Handicap at Horsemen's Park in Omaha, Neb. The victory, before an estimated crowd of 12,000, came on day two of the track's four-day Festival of Racing.

Why stay home to run for $250,000 when you can travel 3,000 miles to take a shot at a $750,000 purse and face an easier group of fillies and mares?

The answer was a no-brainer for trainer Jeff Mullins. It explains why he scratched Summer Wind Dancer out of last Sunday's Grade 1 Milady Handicap at Hollywood Park and chose to have her make her first start outside California in this Sunday's Grade 2 , a 1 1/4-mile race that has come up relatively soft.

Although he has consistently picked up small pieces of purses in graded stakes, Dashboard Drummer hasn't won a race since last August.

Trainer Allen Iwinski remains optimistic Dashboard Drummer will tap his unfulfilled potential in Sunday's Grade 3, $250,000 Leonard Richards, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds. The Richards is one of three stakes on the Delaware Handicap undercard.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Sunday's Grade 3 Lexington at Belmont Park for 3-year-old grass horses didn't draw Kitten's Joy, Timo, and Artie Schiller, the leaders of the division on the East Coast, but the field is still strong.

Among the nine horses entered in the 1 1/4-mile Lexington are Icy Atlantic and Commendation, who finished second and third behind Timo in the Grade 3 Kent Breeders' Cup, and Second Performance, who has quickly developed into a promising turf runner.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The more trainer Bobby Frankel thinks about it, the more he likes the idea of running Ghostzapper in the Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap at Saratoga on Aug. 7.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jockey Tyler Baze is not ready for Southern California racing's annual move from Hollywood Park to Del Mar this week.

"I'm still looking for a place to live down there," he said Friday. "With dogs, it's hard to find a place."

Baze says he does not want the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting to end Sunday, and it's not just because he has yet to find digs that will accommodate his critters in San Diego County.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park ends its spring-summer race meet Sunday, but not before bettors grapple one final time with a classic handicapping dilemma. At 1 1/2 miles on grass, the Grade 2 Sunset Handicap offers a choice between class and pace.

While most reasonable handicappers maintain that class is the key consideration on turf, not everyone measures it the same. Bettors who believe class is a horse's willingness to win may consider Continuously - runner-up in three of his last four - vulnerable. The analysis would be mistaken.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Jockey Patrick Valenzuela on Friday was denied a stay of his recent suspension by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge, ending any chance of a return to riding on Wednesday's opening day at Del Mar.

But judge David Yaffe said Valenzuela could return to court on July 29 and request another stay if the Del Mar board of stewards has not conducted a hearing by then regarding Valenzuela's suspension by the Hollywood Park board of stewards on July 2 for failing to take a hair-follicle test.

Jockey Donnie Meche finished third aboard Unbridled Trick in his first mount back from a one-year suspension on Friday. The comeback came in the eighth race at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La.

Meche tacked 123 pounds, three pounds over the assigned weight of 120.

Meche was suspended for not doing his best to win a trial race at Delta Downs in Vinton, La., in January 2003. He has said his mount injured himself after stumbling at the start of the race. Meche was suspended in February.

The state of Virginia has become another front in the territorial wars of account-wagering with the licensing of a telephone and Internet betting operation for the state's only racetrack, Colonial Downs.

Colonial's account-wagering operation, run by Philadelphia Park, was licensed last month and began operating last week. The operation is the only account-wagering company in the state to receive a license, making it illegal for a resident to open an account with any other account-wagering company.