SHAKOPEE, Minn. - The well-traveled Jimmy Cracked Corn faces six other 3-year old colts and geldings in the $40,000 St. Paul Stakes at Canterbury Park.

Owned by Temple Webber Jr., Jimmy Cracked Corn will run at his fifth racetrack since being transferred to the Tom Amoss barn at the beginning of the year.

A winner of the Bucharest Stakes at Sam Houston in January, Jimmy Cracked Corn has since run a solid second in both the Golden Circle Stakes at Prairie Meadows and an overnight handicap at Arlington Park.

Governor's Pride and Rudirudy have won 13 races apiece, but have had only one victory on turf between them the past two years. Only the Best, Manofglory, and Special Judge are consistent turf sprint specialists, but they have all yet to race this year.

Handicappers will have a tough time deciding whether to support one of the horses with good recent form but few recent wins, or a logical contender coming off a long layoff in Saturday's $60,000 Wolf Hill Stakes, a five-furlong turf race at Monmouth Park.

Host and In Hand, a pair of 4-year-old colts whose fortunes improved when they moved to the turf, will try to retain their good marathon form in Saturday's $100,000 Greenwood Cup Handicap.

The 1 1/2-mile Greenwood is the feature on a program that also includes the Lyman Sprint Championship Handicap for Pennsylvania-breds.

Water Cannon, last of 10 in the Preakness Stakes three weeks ago, takes a steep drop in class to face Maryland-breds in the $75,000 Deputed Testamony at 1 1/16 miles.

Before running far behind Smarty Jones, Water Cannon had won five races in a row, including three stakes, since trainer Linda Albert added blinkers.

The most formidable threat to Water Cannon could be Andiamo, who improved nearly 20 points on the Beyer scale, to a 96, when he crushed allowance horses at Delaware in his first start around two turns.

Multiple stakes winner Ask the Lord and 2003 Arkansas Derby winner Sir Cherokee head a of field nine older horses going a mile and 70 yards in the $75,000 Slipton Fell Handicap.

Since last December, Ask the Lord has won three stakes at Turfway Park. He tuned up for the Slipton Fell by wiring a group of allowance runners, earning a 95 Beyer in his first start at Mountaineer.

Sir Cherokee has faced some tough company in his last three starts, including Midway Road and Peace Rules. The last time he raced in an ungraded stakes he won going nine furlongs at Sam Houston.

Tidal Wave and Prince Benjamin, both wire-to-wire winners in their first start over the track after shipping from Florida, face each other for the second time in the $50,000 Summer Classic, a 1 1/8-mile race for older horses.

The first time they met, in an optional claiming race at Gulfstream in April, Prince Benjamin finished 1 3/4 lengths ahead of Tidal Wave.

MIAMI - Mr. Livingston looked like his old self last month winning the Carterista Handicap by four lengths at odds of 11-1. The question is whether that performance was an aberration or if Mr. Livingston, a multiple-stakes-winning 7-year-old, can repeat the effort as the likely favorite in Saturday's $40,000 Lord Juban Stakes at Calder.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - There's hot, and then there's Jerry Hollendorfer hot.

Northern California's leading trainer comes off arguably the best local week in his distinguished career.

From May 26 to May 31, he saddled 25 horses in six days at Bay Meadows. Twelve won, five finished second, five finished third. Every one earned a paycheck.

That's 48 percent winners, 88 percent on the board.

He ran horses in 21 races, winning 12. Twice he had horses run one-two in races, including Monday's Grade 3 Seabiscuit Handicap.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Inish Glora and Classic Stamp, the first two finishers in the prep for the Grade 3 Nassau Stakes, will meet again Saturday at Woodbine in the $272,250 Nassau, a 1 1/16-mile grass race for fillies and mares.

Inish Glora was voted the Sovereign Award as champion turf female in Canada in 2003, when she won 3 of 6 starts and banked nearly $360,000. She defeated Volga when she captured the Grade 2 Canadian Handicap in September, and Volga went on to win in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes, in which Inish Glora finished seventh.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Plenty of speed will be on display in the second race at Hastings, a $50,000 optional sprint that drew six horses, including two of the fastest horses on the grounds, Dancewithavictor and Celt. Both horses like to be in front, and something will have to give when they face each other Saturday.