AUBURN, Wash. - Trainer Roy Lumm is at it again.

Last year, Lumm claimed Colterkind for $12,500 and launched him on a three-race win streak climaxed by a victory in the $60,000 Governor's Handicap and a berth in the Grade 3 Longacres Mile.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Julie Krone, Hall of Fame jockey and the world's winningest female rider, returns after a four-month break from injury Wednesday at Hollywood Park.

Krone is booked on one mount, Speed to Speed, in the second race. The race is run over seven furlongs for fillies and mares entered to be claimed for $8,000.

Krone said she is eager to resume riding, pending doctor's approval on Tuesday.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Miss Linda hits the comeback trail Wednesday afternoon at Monmouth Park.

A 6-year-old Argentine-bred mare, Miss Linda will be making her first start in almost a year in a $50,000 allowance race at one mile and 70 yards.

Miss Linda, winner of the Grade 1 Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in 2001, last competed in the Grade 1, $250,000 Go for Wand Handicap at Saratoga. She stumbled at the start and wound up fourth, the first in a series of mishaps that kept her on the sidelines.

ELMONT, N.Y. - A $49,096 pick six carryover awaits fans at Belmont Park on Wednesday, which begins the penultimate week of racing at the spring-summer meet before Saratoga opens July 23.

The next-to-last race in the pick six is a $50,000 allowance race for fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on the main track.

A field of five, with no real standout in the group, was entered in the third-level allowance race.

ELMONT, N.Y. - In his first recorded work since finishing third in the Belmont Stakes on June 7, Funny Cide went an easy half-mile in 51.25 seconds at Belmont Park on Monday.

Before the day got too hot and steamy, Funny Cide was sent to Belmont's main track when it opened at 5:30 a.m. and was the first horse to work.

Under exercise rider Robin Smullen, Funny Cide broke off at the three-eighths pole and got his first three furlongs in 38.90 seconds, according to Belmont clockers.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Trainer Ron McAnally is not starting his best older horse in Sunday's $750,000 Hollywood Gold Cup.

While he will run Piensa Sonando, the winner of the Native Diver Handicap last fall, he will not run the unbeaten Candy Ride until the Del Mar meeting.

Last Friday, Candy Ride pushed his winning streak to five with a hard-fought victory in the $150,000 American Handicap on turf. McAnally and owners Sid and Jenny Craig considered the American Handicap a prep for the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Aug. 24.

VALLEJO, Calif. - When people talk about the Solano County Fair, which begins a two-week run Wednesday, one question inevitably is asked.

How long will racing continue there?

Fair general manager Kim Myrman feels a lot like Mark Twain when she hears the question. Twain, who once quipped that reports of his demise were greatly exaggerated, provides Myrman some inspiration in answering the question.

"We're in racing until we're not," she said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Sparked by a number of positive factors, Churchill Downs on Sunday closed its 52-day spring meet with significant increases in virtually every business category.

Most notable was the 17.4 percent increase in average all-sources wagering over the 2002 spring meet. Handle averaged $12,484,001 daily, with almost all of the increase attributable to a steady surge of betting from offtrack sites. Simulcast wagering on Churchill racing averaged $10,682,366, an increase of 20.4 percent from last year.

LOUISVILLE - Just as the horses competing at Ellis Park and Churchill Downs often differ, so too do the names atop the rider standings. Cornelio Velasquez and Pat Day, the one-two finishers from the recently concluded Churchill Downs spring meet, do not ride at Ellis Park. Neither does Robby Albarado, Mark Guidry, or Shane Sellers, except periodically in stakes races.

In their absence Jon Court has capitalized in recent years. Court has won an unprecedented five straight riding titles, and starting Wednesday, he bids for a sixth when the Ellis Park meet gets under way.

CHICAGO - As Chicago sweltered and thundered on a stormy Sunday, Ballingarry was basking at home. A day after winning the Stars and Stripes Handicap here - perhaps a turning point in his season - Ballingarry was back at trainer Laura de Seroux's home base at San Luis Rey Downs in Southern California.

"He's already out having a roll in the sun. I'm glad we got out of there, as humid as it was," de Seroux said by phone Sunday afternoon.