Shake Em Fever will try to prove that his trial win at 28-1 was not a fluke when he starts in the $160,800 Texas-Bred Futurity at Sam Houston Race Park on Saturday night. It is the second of six futurities to be contested during the Sam Houston season, which runs through Nov. 6.

Shake Em Fever was disregarded by bettors when he made his career debut in the first of eight trials April 23, which he won by 1 1/4 lengths in 15.811 seconds for the 300 yards. It was the fastest-qualifying time by the equivalent of about a half-length.

Wild Bill Mae, the Remington Park Derby winner, goes for his third win in three starts this year when he runs in the second of three trials to the Grade 1 Heritage Place Derby on Friday night at Remington Park.

Wild Bill Mae won his Remington Park Derby trial and then upset odds-on favorite Redman Running by a neck for his sole stakes win.

On Saturday night, Streakin Dunn and Tours Quick Miracle, the second- and third-place finishers in the Grade 1 Remington Park Futurity, return in the trials to the Grade 1 Heritage Place Futurity.

The trials for the Grade 1, $64,000 MBNA America California Challenge, scheduled for Friday night at Los Alamitos, will not be held because just nine horses entered the trials.

The 440-yard finals will be contested May 29, with those nine horses eligible to enter.

Heading that group is Grade 1, $200,000 Los Alamitos Winter Championship winner Buccaneer Beach, who finished third in the Grade 1, $500,000 Champion Of Champions.

Sky Lane Pie, winner of the Kaweah Bar Handicap in his latest start, is also eligible to enter the California Challenge Championship.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Herculated, one of the more promising middle-distance turf horses around, has laid low since he narrowly missed winning the Grade 2, $500,000 Mervin Muniz Handicap at the end of the Fair Grounds meet. But it has not been idle time. While stabled at Keeneland with trainer Mike Stidham, Herculated breezed twice, and has worked once at Arlington, with another breeze scheduled this weekend. Then it is time to dust off the racing plates.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Cuvee, one of the top 2-year-olds of 2003, will make his first start in more than six months Saturday, in what is likely to be a small field for the $100,000 Matt Winn Stakes at Churchill Downs.

Cuvee is expected to face Fire Slam, Wildcat Shoes, and several other 3-year-olds in the Matt Winn, a six-furlong race that was inaugurated two years ago.

ELMONT, N.Y. - La Reina, who would have been the horse to beat in Saturday's $200,000 Nassau County Breeders' Cup at Belmont Park, will skip the race in favor of the Grade 1 Acorn on June 4.

In her last start, La Reina finished fourth in the Grade 1 Ashland at Keeneland on April 3. The filly's trainer, Shug McGaughey, said that La Reina had a few kinks that he needed to work on and that he preferred to give her more time in between starts.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Shug McGaughey nominated Daydreaming to Saturday's $200,000 Nassau County Breeders' Cup, a seven-furlong race at Belmont Park, but preferred to run her in a longer race. McGaughey found that spot in Belmont's eighth race Thursday.

are the only 3-year-olds in the race.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Grade 1 winner Ten Most Wanted has been sidelined while veterinarians try to evaluate an unspecified injury. On Tuesday at Hollywood Park, trainer Wally Dollase declined to detail Ten Most Wanted's setback.

"It's a minor thing, but it could be something serious. You just don't know," Dollase said.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Personal Legend seeks redemption Thursday at Hollywood Park, where bettors must decide if she had a legitimate alibi for finishing unplaced in the Grade 2 Buena Vista Handicap in her most recent start, Feb. 21.

"I don't think she handled the soft turf," said trainer Bobby Frankel.

finished fourth in that race, but drops in class Thursday and will be among the favorites in race 7, a two-other-than allowance at 1 1/16 miles on turf. Six fillies and mares entered the $54,000 allowance, the second of two turf races in which Frankel has a key entrant.

Legislation that would increase the takeout rate in California, with the extra money earmarked to supplement racetrack workers' compensation costs, was passed by the state Assembly on Monday by a unanimous vote. The bill has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for his signature.

Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill earlier this year, but since then, his administration has passed a statewide workers' compensation reform package. Horsemen's officials said Tuesday that they expected Schwarzenegger to support the new legislation.