LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Pick-six mania does not engulf racetracks in Kentucky with anywhere close to the frequency of Southern California or New York. Kentucky pick-six pools are considerably slower to grow, and, in general, fewer horseplayers focus on taking them down.

But once in a while, such as on Memorial Day weekend, the pick six becomes the talk of the track. The Churchill Downs pick six had not been won since May 17, and after six days of eluding bettors, the carryover heading into Monday's card was $342,497, sixth-highest in track history.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It's not the best card of the Churchill Downs spring meet. With the third through seventh races on the Thursday program representing the very bottom of the proverbial Churchill barrel - three $5,000 claiming races, and two $15,000 maiden-claiming races - the inclination from horseplayers might be to take a pass until Friday.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - We have already seen what she can do with young turf horses trying to win their maiden races or run through allowance conditions. Now, how will trainer Becky Maker fare in the claiming game?

Maker won an overnight handicap on turf here Saturday with Dancing With Me, who paid $67.20 to win, and 24 hours later she was back in the Arlington winner's circle after another grass race when General Lee, who like Dancing With Me had drawn in from the also-eligible list, won his maiden race in his turf debut.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Billy Idel ($23.80) overcame a poor start and rallied to score a 1 1/4-length victory over Mr. Mingo in the $59,950 Gray's Lake Stakes for Iowa-bred 3-year-old colts and geldings at Prairie Meadows.

Billy Idel broke in the air and was away last of the eight starters in the six-furlong race under jockey Ken Shino. Shino remained patient and saved ground while advancing entering the stretch after Triage and Lord Alexander had dueled through a half-mile run in 45.93 seconds.

Eagle Time has suddenly learned how to win again.

A 6-year-old horse trained by Rick Jordan, Eagle Time was a combined 1 for 19 during the past two seasons. Eagle Time ($36.60) has now won two in a row, however, after his upset in the $77,900 Memorial Day Handicap at Mountaineer Park.

It was Eagle Time's first stakes win since he captured the Texas Derby in March 2000 at Sunland Park. Since then, he had lost all seven stakes in which he ran. He prepped for the Memorial Day by winning an allowance race at Thistledown.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Tates Creek won the most important race of her two-year career in Monday's $421,000 at Hollywood Park, completing a coast-to-coast Grade 1 double for trainer Bobby Frankel.

Earlier on Monday, Frankel won the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park with Aldebaran.

Tates Creek won her first Grade 1 in the Gamely, adding one of the few milestones she had to yet to achieve. Ridden by Patrick Valenzuela for Juddmonte Farms, Tates Creek ($9) ran the 1 1/8 miles on turf in 1:46.97.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Reba's Gold ($6) was an eight-length winner in his 2003 debut in the $100,000 Grade 3 Seabiscuit Handicap at Bay Meadows on Monday.

Reba's Gold, off since a ninth-place finish in the Japan Cup on Nov. 23, sat off I'madrifter's swift pace in the 1 1/16-mile race. He was fourth early as I'madrifter cut out fractions of 22.29, 45.16 and 1:09.85 while being chased by Metatron and Truly A Judge.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The top turf miler in California is an 8-year-old Brazilian-bred who gets homesick when he leaves town but more than makes up for it with his local performances.

Monday, Redattore won his second consecutive major stakes on this circuit in the $415,000 at Hollywood Park. The victory came nearly three months after Redattore won the Grade 2 Frank Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Jockeys Hector Romero and Francisco Duran were taken to hospitals for X-rays after a spill in the seventh race at Bay Meadows on Monday.

Duran's mount, Autumn Flame, fell midway around the second turn in the maiden claiming race at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Romero, on Tara's Harp, fell when his mount tried to hurdle the fallen horse and rider.

Romero, an apprentice, was knocked out and complained of pain in his lower back and right leg after coming to. He was sent to the Stanford Medical Center in Stanford for a CT scan for his head and X-rays.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Blazonry, taking advantage of a wicked early pace that sapped the front-runners, rallied from last to first for a 2 1/2-length victory in Monday's $150,000 at Hollywood Park.

The Barrera, a seven-furlong race for 3-year-olds, was only the second North American start for Blazonry. He had finished a close third in a first-level allowance race on April 2 at Santa Anita, his first race after making five starts on the turf at age 2 in Great Britain.