COLLINSVILLE, Ill. - Jockey Chris Quinn, who had been comatose as ta result of a spill at Fairmount Park on July 19, has shown movement, and his condition at St. Louis University Hospital has been upgraded from critical to serious. Last weekend Quinn was weaned off a ventilator that had been aiding his breathing since the accident.

Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner Funny Cide drew post position No. 7 and is now considered 75 percent likely to run in Saturday's 134th running of the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Funny Cide worked four furlongs in 47.82 seconds Tuesday morning at Saratoga and seemed to take a major step toward at least being entered in Saturday's $1 million Travers. However, his entry would be no guarantee that he would run in the race.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Wally Dollase has trained two champions and won a Breeders' Cup race. But, he still ranks as the single biggest thrill of his training career the afternoon of Aug. 23, 1997, when his Deputy Commander won the Travers Stakes by a nose over Behrens after a stirring stretch drive.

Six years later to the day, Dollase will try to re-create that feeling for himself and his partners in Horizon Stable when he sends out Ten Most Wanted, a son of Deputy Commander, in Saturday's 134th running of the Travers.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Five trainers who don't want to go through the seemingly futile task of chasing Wild Spirit in Friday's Grade 1 Personal Ensign Handicap have found an easier, albeit far less prestigious race in which to run their fillies and mares.

DEL MAR, Calif. - And now for Act 3 for Labamta Babe. He was a promising 3-year-old in the spring of 2002, but went to the sidelines following a victory in the Santa Catalina Stakes. After a poor fall campaign, he seemed on the ascension again this past January, when he won an allowance race at Santa Anita while gearing up for the Strub Series.

But Labamta Babe failed miserably as the favorite one race later, emerging with sore ankles, and was given a lengthy vacation.

CHICAGO - The trainer Bobby Barnett clearly remembers the sequence of events. Star of Atticus raced on a Saturday and went under the knife on a Monday. That was almost nine months ago. Thursday at Arlington, for the first time since November, Barnett will put racing tack on Star of Atticus, who makes her comeback in a first-level allowance sprint here.

AUBURN, Wash. - Sky Jack, the 123-pound highweight for Sunday's Grade 3 Longacres Mile, took to the Emerald Downs track for the first time on Tuesday morning for an easy gallop under exercise rider Carol Hubbird.

"I just backtracked him, then turned around and galloped a mile," said Hubbird, who serves as assistant to local trainer Terry Gillihan. "He went fine. He's a pro."

Sky Jack, who will be saddled by trainer Doug O'Neill, arrived at Emerald on Monday and settled into Gillihan's barn nicely, according to his regular groom, Savas Riberara.

AUBURN, Wash. - Lot of Hope and Michelle's Cap will try to keep their winning steaks alive in Thursday's feature at Emerald Downs, a one-mile race for fillies and mares to be run under $3,200 starter allowance conditions.

Thursday's headliner, which offers an enhanced purse of $7,000, is the latest installment of the Stanislaw Ashbaugh Series, which rewards the lower-level claiming horses that are essential to most race meets.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Vinemeister and Jersey Giant meet for the second time in Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Philip H. Iselin Breeders' Cup Handicap at Monmouth Park.

Vinemeister owns the first score, besting Jersey Giant by three-quarters of a length in Monmouth's Grade 3 Salvator Mile on July 26.

The rematch in the Iselin comes at 1 1/8 miles and the extra furlong could be an issue for Vinemeister.

"I'm concerned about the extra eighth of mile," trainer Alan Seewald said. "Now is the time to see if he's ready to move up to the next level."