AUBURN, Wash. - The Stanislaw Ashbaugh Starter Allowance Series, designed to reward lower-level claimers with enhanced purses, will be renewed on Thursday's nine-race card. The race has attracted seven older runners, each of whom has started for $3,200 or less this year, to compete at one mile for a $7,000 purse.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A bruised foot will keep Redattore out of the 1 1/4-mile Hollywood Gold Cup on July 13.

"To go a mile and quarter on dirt, he'd have to have it all go perfect," Redattore's trainer, Richard Mandella, said Tuesday.

Mandella said he will point Redattore to the Eddie Read July 27 on the Del Mar grass.

Redattore won the Grade 1 Shoemaker Mile on turf in his most recent start, on May 26. Redattore won the Grade 2 San Antonio Handicap on dirt in early 2002 at Santa Anita.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park rolls out the red carpet Thursday for comebacker Total Limit, who meets a paceless field in a three-other-than optional $80,000 claiming race at 6 1/2 furlongs. Runner-up by a head in the Grade 1 Malibu Stakes in December, Total Limit figures to establish a lonely lead, which he will gladly accept in the seventh-race feature.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The spring meet at Churchill Downs has not gone as well as trainer Niall O'Callaghan had hoped. But O'Callaghan, who has won with just five of 41 starters, does have a built-in excuse.

"A lot of my horses got sick just about when it was time to come north from Florida," said O'Callaghan. "It's taken some time for them to come around. Hopefully we'll have a nice summer to try to make up for the lost time."

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Seeking the Ring and Brattothecore battled nostril-to-nostril down the long stretch at Fort Erie on Tuesday in the $250,000 Labatt Bison City.

Both fillies deserved to win and, in a fitting conclusion, both did win - because a photo finish could not separate the two of them in the 1 1/16-mile race, which is the second leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara for 3-year-old fillies.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Phantom Light, a son of Alphabet Soup, equaled his sire's 1 1/4-mile track record at Woodbine with a front-running victory in Tuesday's Grade 3 Dominion Day Handicap.

Phantom Light, under Todd Kabel, set fractions of 23.21 seconds, 46.51, and 1:11.47 while being stalked by Dance to Destiny and Kiss a Native.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Chance Rollins has long enjoyed success on the northern California fair circuit.

He rode Casual Lies, runner-up in the 1992 Kentucky Derby, to victory in his 2-year-old debut at Santa Rosa and has ridden his share of stakes winners on the circuit.

On Saturday, Rollins won the Alameda County Fair's first stakes, the six-furlong Sam Jr. Whiting, aboard Texas Chili. He was third the next day aboard A Real Lady for a longtime Arizona-based friend, trainer Donald Mills, in the Juan Gonzalez Memorial.

PLEASANTON, Calif. - Because he is a good listener, trainer Ed Moger Jr. will run Amber Hills in Thursday's $40,000-added Pleasanton Senorita.

"I was going to wait until Del Mar for her, but she's doing so well, she was telling me to run," Moger said. "She's been training real well for the last six or seven weeks."

Moger noted that running Amber Hills on Thursday would give her enough time to return July 27 in the $100,000 Fleet Treat, a seven-furlong race at Del Mar.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Churchill Downs faithful treated Ipi Tombe as if she were one of their longtime favorites. Yet it seems far more likely that the extraordinarily loud cheers that met Ipi Tombe as she returned to the winner's circle Saturday following the Locust Grove Handicap were the acknowledgements of her status as a global superstar, one whose mere presence was deeply appreciated.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Former jockey Randy Romero, who has been battling severe liver and kidney ailments for about a year, said last weekend that a new medicine to rid his liver of hepatitis-C virus "has been working" and that his doctors "are happy with how I'm doing. They think it's possible that if the virus doesn't come back, then I'll be able to go on and get a new kidney."