SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - In the absence of a stakes, a $56,000 money allowance, showcasing Grade 1 winner Raging Fever, is the feature on Monday at Saratoga.

Five fillies and mares entered the six-furlong dirt race that goes as the fifth. Raging Fever faces Zawzooth, Lilah, Belle Artiste, and Literary Light.

Raging Fever, a winner of $1,448,783, is having a fairly quiet year by her standards. Now 5, Raging Fever's lone win in five starts is the Grade 3 Bed o' Roses Breeders' Cup Handi-cap at Aqueduct on April 19.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Five riders representing the Bay Meadows Fair jockey colony met with stewards Saturday to complain about a Friday decision that they say points to favoritism for leading rider Russell Baze.

Baze, who rode at Del Mar on Saturday, was not at the meeting and declined an offer to have a representative at it. He later spoke with the stewards by phone from Del Mar.

MIAMI - Built Up and Swift Replica, overmatched in the Grade 3 Smile Sprint Handicap in their previous starts, found the competition a lot more to their liking Saturday, finishing first and second in the $75,000 Groomstick Handicap at Calder.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Sam-Son Farm, trainer Mark Frostad, and jockey Todd Kabel swept both stakes with the favorites at Woodbine on Saturday, taking the Grade 3 Play the King Handicap with Soaring Free and the With Approval with Puffer.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Tangier Sound dictated all the pace and drew away to a commanding 4 1/4-length lead in the $50,000 Klassy Briefcase Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Monmouth Park.

Tangier Sound ($10.40) ran five furlongs on turf in 55.91 seconds in the stakes for fillies and mares.

Tangier Sound has developed into a top turf sprinter during the past year. Almost in desperation, trainer Jim Ryerson sent Tangier Sound to Colonial Downs in an effort to win her maiden race in July 2002. She won easily at 5 1/2 furlongs in her grass debut.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Spring Cat, one of two fillies in the six-horse field of Ohio-bred 2-year-olds in the $35,000 Loyalty Stakes, responded readily to energetic handling by rider Huber Villa-Gomez and caught the pacesetting Catch My Cat in the final strides. The margin of victory was a nose, and it was 6 1/2 lengths back to Cruzcat.

Spring Cat ($20.60), owned by Martin Brothers Inc., won for the second time in six days and ran the six furlongs in 1:12.68 over a fast track.

Capitano was not expected to win; Ruler's Court was not supposed to lose. Their agendas contrast Sunday at Del Mar, even while both try for the same objective - victory in the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes and leadership of an ordinary 2-year-old division.

DEL MAR, Calif. - When trainer Ted H. West planned a Del Mar campaign for Bluesthestandard he envisioned a start in either the Bing Crosby Handicap on July 26 or Sunday's Pat O'Brien Handicap.

He did not expect to run in both of the top sprints until Bluesthestandard, 6, arrived at Del Mar and showed the enthusiasm of a horse half his age.

"He's been coming out of his races so good," West said. "It's like he thrives on the activity. He's put on 50 pounds since we got down here."

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The condition of the Monmouth Park turf course remains the prime concern of trainers planning to run horses Sunday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Matchmaker Handicap for fillies and mares.

The rain-soaked course saw action Thursday for the first time since Aug. 3, but the track ran only one of the scheduled three turf races on the grass Friday afternoon.

The 1 1/8-mile Matchmaker attracted a field of 13 and a host of concerns from trainers.

"My filly does not like a soft course," said Mary Eppler, trainer of Lady Linda.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Not this year. The trainer Chris Block has not lost faith in Mystery Giver, but instead of running in the Arlington Million, Mystery Giver does his Million week racing this season in Sunday's $50,000-added John Henry Stakes. Fifth with a tough trip in the 2002 Arlington Handicap, Mystery Giver nevertheless got a shot in last year's Million. He was 30-1 in the race, and ran like a longshot, finishing ninth by more than 11 lengths. It wasn't fair, really, since Mystery Giver is a much better horse than that.