ELMONT, N.Y. - While it has taken more than six months for Sky Mesa to make his 3-year-old debut - which he will do in Sunday's Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park - he is still ahead of schedule when compared to the other Eclipse Award finalists in last year's juvenile division.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Sunday marks the end of an era in Churchill Downs lore.

Minutes after the final race is run Sunday evening, work crews will begin removing keepsakes and other items from the clubhouse in preparation for the demolition that eventually will lead to the most sweeping physical changes in the history of this 129-year-old facility.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The last time Dogwood Stable had a 2-year-old win the Bashford Manor Stakes, the colt ended up a classic winner.

Summer Squall won the 1989 Bashford Manor by four lengths before finishing second in the Kentucky Derby and winning the Preakness the following spring. Let there be little doubt that Dogwood syndicate members would dearly love to see Limehouse embark on a similar path Sunday when the unbeaten colt races against five other 2-year-olds in the 102nd running of the Grade 3, $150,000 Bashford Manor at Churchill Downs.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Unable to gain a berth in Saturday's $750,000 American Oaks, Rutters Renegade starts in Sunday's $100,000 Flawlessly Stakes at Hollywood Park.

Trainer Gary Mandella said he believes a win in the one-mile turf stakes will show that Rutters Renegade is among the top of her division.

After a second-place finish in the Senorita Stakes May 17, Rutters Renegade started in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Handicap June 7 where a win or placing could have earned a berth in the American Oaks.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Frank Olivares will end a 12-year retirement when he rides Laffit, a horse he formerly trained, in Sunday's fifth race at Hollywood Park.

Olivares, 53, announced last month that was folding his training stable to return to riding for the first time since December 1990. For the past several weeks, he has been a fixture on the backstretch, exercising horses.

"I'll be excited. I wish it was today," Olivares said Friday on the backstretch. "I'm anxious to get going. I've been getting busier and busier each morning."

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer D. Wayne Lukas had all his bases covered. With a furlong to go in Friday's $110,900 Debutante Stakes at Churchill Downs, Be Gentle had pulled away from every other filly in the field - except for her Lukas-trained stablemate Renaissance Lady.

At the finish, Be Gentle was still in front to prevail by 1 1/4 lengths over Renaissance Lady and give Lukas a record fifth Debutante win. Sweet Jo Jo finished another 4 1/2 lengths back in third in a field of eight 2-year-old fillies.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Gators N Bears held off a determined stretch rally from Mt. Carson Friday afternoon at Monmouth Park to win the Grade 3, $97,250 Jersey Shore Breeders' Cup.

The win capped a grand day for New Jersey-breds racing in open company. Earlier on the holiday card, Jersey Giant and Sea of Tranquility, the only New Jersey-breds in the race, finished one-two in the $60,000 Skip Away Stakes.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Wacky Patty won her second stakes race of the Hollywood Park meet in Friday's $100,300 Landaluce Stakes for 2-year-old fillies.

Wacky Patty started in all three stakes races for the division during the meet. In her only stakes loss, she finished fourth in the Cinderella Stakes June 8 after a poor start. A Formal Dinner filly who has earned $137,569, Wacky Patty won a maiden special weight race and the Nursery Stakes in her first two starts at this meet.

In the Grade 3 Landaluce Stakes, Wacky Patty was sent off as the slight favorite.

MIAMI - Sea Pleasure, the only 3-year-old in the field and the longest price on the board at 15-1, rallied from last to outfinish Stauh by three-quarters of a length to upset Friday's $100,000 Americana Handicap at Calder.

Sea Pleasure trailed his five older rivals during the opening half-mile of the 1 1/8-mile Americana, remained at the back of the pack until entering the stretch, split horses, and finished with a surge to run down Stauch in the final strides. Stauch moved clear in early stretch. He finished 1 3/4 lengths clear of Mr. Livingston, who ran third.

Catch My Cat sprinted to a clear lead soon after the start under jockey Jodie Fortner and won the 12th running of the $40,000 Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes by 3 1/2 lengths over Paris Gold. Odds-on favorite Another Freddy weakened to finish third, one length farther back in the field of seven Ohio-bred 2-year-olds.

Catch My Cat, owned by Sherry Napier and trained by William Napier, completed the 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:06.88 over the fast racing surface and returned $5.40 as the second choice.