LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Working on the reasonable assumption that Minister's Baby needed her last race, trainer Ken McPeek is looking forward to seeing the mare stretch out in distance and race around two turns Sunday.

"We're bringing her back a little quicker than I'd normally want," McPeek said. "But if we're going to make the Fleur de Lis, we've got to get another race like this into her."

Minister's Baby returned from a lengthy layoff May 15, finishing a distant second behind For Rubies in a 6 1/2-furlong allowance race.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Singletary might be on a two-race winning streak going into Sunday's $100,000 Will Rogers Handicap at Hollywood Park if only trainer Don Chatlos Jr. had issued a different set of instructions last month.

Chatlos is blaming himself for over-coaching before the La Puente Stakes at Santa Anita on April 12. In hindsight, Chatlos wishes he had told jockey David Flores to keep Singletary near the front. Sent off as the even-money favorite on the strength of a minor stakes win in March, Singletary was fourth early and rallied to finish second by a nose.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Stakes winner Acting Deputy fits nicely in Sunday's seventh race at Woodbine, a seven-furlong starter allowance for fillies and mares who have run for a $32,000 tag or less since the beginning of last year.

Acting Deputy, a 4-year-old by Silver Deputy, graduated for just $20,000 last September at Fort Erie. She also won each of her next four starts, and was claimed on two occasions, for $45,000 and $35,000.

CALGARY, Alberta - Taiaslew, winner of the six-furlong President's Stakes two weeks ago, stretches out to a mile for Sunday's Hoofprint on My Heart Handicap, the major prep for the June 14 Alberta Derby.

The 123-pound highweight in a field of six, Taiaslew is unbeaten in five career starts in this province and captured the President's by four lengths.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Stately Jack Flash, who was fifth in the Oregon Derby at Portland Meadows in his most recent start, will take on four other 3-year-olds in a $35,000 claiming race at Hastings on Sunday. It's hard to dismiss the chances of any of the five starters in the 6 1/2-furlong sprint.

AUBURN, Wash. - An international match-up will take place at Emerald Downs on Sunday when Canadian star Elana d'Amour takes on Chilean-born Ema Bovary and three others in the Washington State Legislators Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs.

Elana d'Amour will tote highweight of 123 pounds, one pound more than Ema Bovary, on the strength of her record of seven wins, including six stakes victories, from 13 starts, all at Hastings Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Robert Landry, one of the top riders here through his 22-year career, will be this year's recipient of the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award, the Woodbine Entertainment Group announced Friday.

The Gomez Memorial Award is presented annually in honor of Avelino Gomez, who was born in Cuba and had long been one of Canada's most famous jockeys when he died as the result of a spill in Woodbine's 1980 Canadian Oaks.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Reacting to complaints largely from rival horsemen, the California Horse Racing Board announced Friday that it was reviewing certain races with significant form reversals, including the second race Wednesday at Hollywood Park.

In the Wednesday race, a former maiden claimer, Flyindownbaylaurel, who had lost her first four starts by a combined 64 1/2 lengths for trainer Jerry Dutton, won a maiden special weight race for California-bred fillies and mares in her first start for trainer Jeff Mullins.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Green Fee, who feels right at home on the turf at Belmont Park, returns there Monday in the $100,000 Jaipur Handicap.

Green Fee, who is trained by Dan Peitz, has run twice this year, finishing fifth and ninth in stakes at Fair Grounds and Sam Houston. In the seven-furlong Jaipur, he will try to add to his exceptional Belmont turf record of 6-3-1 in 12 starts.

Green Fee, a 7-year-old son of Green Dancer, hasn't raced at Belmont since winning the Grade 2 Kelso Handicap Oct. 5 of last year.

MIAMI - The complexion of Monday's $100,000 Memorial Day Handicap changed dramatically late this week when trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. declared defending champion Best of the Rest from the Grade 3 stakes due to a nagging quarter crack.

Best of the Rest would have been the 122-pound highweight and the odds-on favorite to win the Memorial Day Handicap for the second straight year.