AUBURN, Wash. - A competitive field of seven older horses, each eligible to be claimed for $16,000, will meet at 6 1/2 furlongs in Friday's featured seventh race at Emerald Downs.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Going strictly by the company he has kept this season on the main track, Colonial Colony is a standout in Friday's Woodbine feature, an $80,000 optional claimer for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles on the dirt.

Colonial Colony earned a whopping 109 Beyer Speed Figure when he finished fourth behind Mineshaft in the Grade 1 Pimlico Special on May 16. A month later at Churchill, he was a non-threatening fifth behind Perfect Drift, Mineshaft, and Met Mile winner Aldebaran in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap.

The selected session of the Fasig-Tipton Canadian-bred yearling sale posted modest gains in average price and gross receipts Tuesday at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion in Ontario.

A total of 152 yearlings sold for $6,413,000 at this year's session, compared with 151 head who brought $6,258,500 last year. The average was up 1.8 percent, from $41,447 to $42,191. A total of 58 yearlings were listed as not sold, compared with 39 in 2002.

SASKATOON, Saskatoon - Based on her 14-length victory at Marquis Downs on Aug. 22, Top Stage Dancer should be a prohibitive favorite in the Graceful Klinchit Handicap in Friday's sixth race, a $4,000 allowance for fillies and mares at six furlongs.

The City Centre Bingo Handicap for 3-year-old fillies was to have had top billing here on Friday, the next-to-last day of the meet, but because of a lack of nominations the race was canceled - putting Top Stage Dancer at center stage.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trish's Diamond, a runner-up in the Cavonnier Juvenile Stakes in his last start, may not be the favorite in Friday's Bay Meadows feature.

The 2-year-old colt has run well in each of his three starts, but that may only be good enough to make him second choice in a field of six 2-year-olds running 5 1/2 furlongs at the first condition allow-ance.

Tailor Fit, the 1999 and 2001 world champion Quarter Horse, will be retired during a ceremony at Sam Houston Race Park on Friday night following the fifth race.

Trained by the late Steve VanBebber and then by Janet VanBebber, Tailor Fit won the Champion of Champions both years he was named world champion. His other Grade 1 wins include the Remington Park Championship for three straight years (1999-2001) and the 2001 MBNA America Challenge Championship.

Tailor Fit, owned by Betty Jane Burlin, won 20 of 40 career starts and earned $1,299,010.

Most Feared, who has not raced since finishing second to Dynever in the Grade 3, $500,000 Lone Star Derby on May 10, is working toward a comeback, with one of his possible goals the Grade 3, $150,000 Oklahoma Derby at 1 1/8 miles at Remington Park on Nov. 16, according to his owner-breeder Tom Durant.

Most Feared worked a bullet five furlongs in 1:01 last Saturday at his base at Retama Park.

Terry Thompson became Hoosier Park's all-time leading jockey with his winning ride aboard Big Pain in Monday's 10th race. Thompson entered the Hoosier season two wins behind Jon Court on the list of career victories at the track.

Thompson's record-setting ride came aboard Big Pain, who won by five lengths. The win gave Thompson 390 career wins at Hoosier, topping Court's mark on his 14th ride of meet.

Evangeline Downs near Lafayette, La., closed out its final meet without slot machines on Monday and experienced small declines in average daily attendance and handle. The track will open a slots casino at its new site in Opelousas in March 2004, but will race at its existing location for one more year.

The casino, expected to house about 1,600 machines, will start supplementing purses next year. Plans for the new site include a one-mile dirt track and a seven-furlong turf course. Long-range developments could include a convention center and hotel.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - Armando Martinez's feat of riding six winners on Friday's nine-race card seemed to fuel a flurry of streaks over the Labor Day weekend as this meet winds down to its Sept. 14 closing.

Martinez kick-started the meet for trainer Sean Foley by booting home both ends of the early double ($8.80) aboard Foley trainees. Foley sent out Love Jet ($4) in the first and Raniata ($5.20) in the second to collect his first wins of the meet.