Morning Snow, a two-time Grade 1 futurity winner last year, makes her 3-year-old debut in the second of three 400-yard trials to the Grade 1 Golden State Derby on Friday night at Los Alamitos.

Morning Snow, a winner of 5 of 7 starts, is making her first start since finishing second in her Los Alamitos Million trial Nov. 29 at Los Alamitos.

Trainer Donna McArthur campaigned Morning Snow to wins in the Grade 1, $361,000 Kindergarten and the Grade 1, $436,000 Ed Burke Futurity at Los Alamitos last summer. Those two wins provided the bulk of her $356,352 in earnings.

The first- and third-place finishers in the Grade 1, $306,377 West Texas Futurity, Quik Jolla and Call Me Miss Royalty, meet again in the Grade 2, $73,080 American Airlines New Mexico Challenge at Ruidoso Downs on Sunday afternoon.

In the West Texas Futurity on April 6, Quik Jolla won by a half-length. She then won the Ruidoso Juvenile Invitational, a race for horses that didn't qualify for the Ruidoso Futurity.

Retama Park, which begins a 48-night meet Friday, has never been afraid to try something different. When the track near San Antonio, Texas, opened in 1995, it introduced two turf route stakes for 2-year-olds. A few years later, takeout on its pick three wagers was reduced from 25 percent to 12 percent.

Those ideas have since become signatures for the track, and this year, a new one will be tested: the 49er Daily Double.

Ricky Frazier will leap back into the real world Friday at Retama Park when he returns to competitive riding after working on two films: "Seabiscuit" and the upcoming "Spiderman 2."

Frazier spent five months as a stunt double for lead actor Tobey Maguire in "Seabiscuit," and also did some stunt work for "Spiderman 2." His return to Retama is something of a homecoming, as he has not ridden at the track since 1998, when he won the riding title. In recent years, Frazier has competed in northern California and Seattle.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Mean Competitor, Valid Leader, Art and Gretchen Eaton, and the Curtis Sampson family will be the inductees at Canterbury Park's annual Hall of Fame induction on Saturday.

Mean Competitor, a Quarter Horse, will be remembered not only for his prowess in 870-yard contests at Shakopee, but for his victories over Thoroughbred rivals in mixed competition and his prominent, round-tipped ears, which were cropped after the gelding suffered frostbite on the North Dakota farm where he was raised.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - The Nebraska Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Agency finalized a purse raise for Columbus Races on Wednesday, supplementing overnight purses on a floating scale of $200 to $500 per race and increasing purses of open stakes by $1,000. The raise is retroactive to last Thursday's opening day card.

The horsemen's association also supplemented Fonner Park purses this spring to keep purses at their 2002 level. The raise brings the minimum purse to $3,700 for bottom-level claimers.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - Jockey Joe Judice rode his 3,000th winner Tuesday evening when he booted home two winners at Great Lakes Downs. The 41-year-old veteran was joined by the jockey colony and well-wishers in the winner's circle following his handy win aboard Privateer in the seventh race. He also won the fifth race with Tate Express.

NORTH RANDALL, Ohio - Trainer Jerry Sparks and owner-breeder Darrell Sapp went on a tear this weekend, winning five races. Madame Janette dropped in for a claiming price to take Thursday's 10th race. Only One King won the opener on Friday, a nonwinners-of-two allowance event. Sparks entry of 2-year-old maidens failed to win Saturday, but Sapp's yellow and white silks were soon prominent again, with a three-bagger on Sunday.

Three stakes, highlighted by the 31st running of the Pennsylvania Governor's Cup, will be offered during Penn National Race Course's biggest weekend of live racing.

The premier race is Saturday's $50,000 Governor's Cup, a five-furlong turf sprint that has attracted 33 nominees with earnings in excess of $8 million. In addition, a $5 betting voucher will be given with each paid admission to the track on Saturday.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The reportedly minor injury that kept Ipi Tombe out of last Sunday's Grade 1 Diana Handicap at Saratoga now seems likely to send her to the sidelines for the rest of this season.

Reached Wednesday morning in Kentucky, trainer Elliott Walden put an end to the speculation about whether Ipi Tombe would run in the Arlington Million or the Beverly D. here at Arlington Park on Aug. 16. With Ipi Tombe's injured leg showing no sign of improvement this week, Walden said the decision was reached to put the filly away and point for a 2004 campaign.