Walk This Way makes a number of meaningful changes Sunday for the $50,000 Arcadia Stakes at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La. He will move back to the statebred ranks, return to the main track, and cut back to one turn.

Walk This Way will face seven others in the Arcadia, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds bred in Louisiana. Last year, he won the $100,000 Louisiana Champions Day Juvenile at Fair Grounds at six furlongs, and later in the meet won at a mile on turf in the $100,000 Gentilly Handicap.

MIAMI - Trainer Kirk Ziadie has had an amazing opening half to the 2004 season. Ziadie saddled winners at a rate of more than 40 percent this winter at Tampa, sent out Kaufy Mate to upset Gulfstream Park's $250,000 Aventura Stakes, and established a five-furlong turf-course record here with Whenthedoveflies.

AUBURN, Wash. - The ninth running of the $50,000 Irish Day Handicap at a mile on Sunday is the meeting's first two-turn stakes for 3-year-old fillies, and the distance change can't come soon enough for trainer Steve Bullock.

The Bullock-trained Sariano notched her first stakes win last time out in the 6 1/2-furlong Federal Way Handicap on May 16, when she went from last to first to prevail by a half-length over Sandia's Flicka, and Bullock believes she will be even tougher in a route.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Rick Terry will be making a homecoming of sorts when he saddles Sandia's Flicka in the Emerald Downs Handicap at Hastings on Sunday. Terry, who was born in British Columbia and grew up on the Hastings backstretch, left Hastings a few years ago and has become one of the leading trainers at Emerald. He is currently third in the trainers' standings at the Auburn, Wash., oval.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Sunday's $55,000-added Malcolm Anderson Stakes for 2-year-olds running 4 1/2 furlongs at Bay Meadows will offer what has unfortunately becoming a racing rarity in northern California - a full field of 12 in a stakes race.

"Jim Ghidella and the TOC get credit for this," racing secretary Tom Doutrich said. "They really pushed us to have this race." Ghidella is the northern California director of the Thoroughbred Owners of California.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. But what about when you have all three, which is trainer Reade Baker's situation heading into Sunday's $500,000 Labatt Woodbine Oaks?

Baker will send out Silver Bird, Hong Kong Dancer, and Touchnow, giving him 60 percent of the five-horse field for the 1 1/8-mile Oaks, which is this country's most prestigious test for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Unbeaten Eye of the Sphynx should be the heavy favorite in a field of five in Sunday's $500,000 Labatt Woodbine Oaks. The 1 1/8-mile Oaks, for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies, is the first leg of the Canadian triple tiara. Completing the series is the Labatt Bison City Stakes at Fort Erie July 4, and the Wonder Where Stakes here on the grass Aug. 1.

Sunday's 11-race Woodbine card includes two other stakes, the $140,375 Victoria Park and the $113,000 Alywow.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - There are two distinct story lines to the $140,375 Victoria Park Stakes, one of the supporting features on Woodbine Oaks Day here Sunday.

One involves the rematch between American-breds Judiths Wild Rush and Organ Grinder, the one-two finishers in the 1 1/16-mile Marine here May 24 and the probable favorites Sunday.

The other concerns the Canadian-breds in the field of nine, who will be looking to use the 1 1/8-mile Victoria Park as a stepping-stone to the $1 million Queen's Plate here June 27.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Sixteen runners were entered for Sunday's $50,000 Adena Springs Matchmaker, a stakes for fillies and mares, 3 years old and up.

It is Fort Erie's second stakes of the year and its first grass race of the meet.

If the weather cooperates and the five-furlong race remains on the grass, the field will be limited to 10 starters. If it is moved to the main track, 12 horses will be permitted to start. The six lowest earners in 2003-2004 are listed as also-eligibles.

Eight shippers from Woodbine are among the top 10 starters.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Heading into this weekend, trainer Valorie Lund had won 9 of 24 starts at the meet and was tied atop the local trainer standings with Emile Corbel.

Lund, in her first year at Assiniboia Downs, on Sunday sends out Too Tall and Dark Rapids in the $40,000 La Verendrye Stakes. A field of eight fillies and mares is slated to go six furlongs.

Undefeated in both her starts here, Too Tall won an optional claiming race on May 9 and then took an allowance prep for this race May 28. AToo Tall breaks from post 3 with Tim Gardiner on board.