SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Ten Minnesota-bred fillies are entered in the $35,000 Lady Slipper Stakes at six furlongs Sunday at Canterbury Park, a race that renews a three-way rivalry from last season.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Guiness on Tap, who has won 20 races, and Goodtime Rocket, who has won 10, will meet Sunday at Lone Star Park in one of two races designed as preps for the upcoming Claiming Crown.

The Claiming Crown, to be held at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minn., on July 19, is a program of six restricted stakes worth $550,000.

PHOENIX - When they bring down the curtain on a Turf Paradise meet, it usually takes a while.

That's because the highlight of Sunday's closing-day program is a marathon: the 15-furlong, aptly named Hasta La Vista Handicap. It is a turf race for 3-year-olds and up worth $50,000.

It is one of three stakes that highlight the 10-race closing-day card. Also on tap are the $25,000 ATBA Spring Sales Stakes for Arizona-bred 2-year-olds at five furlongs, and the $25,000 Arizona Stallion Stakes at 7 1/2 furlongs on the turf.

Sunday's $60,000-added Saratoga Handicap has something in common with Radar Contact, who will run in the six-furlong dash for older horses. They're both a little late.

The Saratoga was originally slated to be run a week ago, but racing secretary Gregory Brent had to call the race off after only four horses were entered to run. Brent offered the race again for Sunday and six names were found in the entry box.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Owner-trainer-breeder Tom Longstaff is on a roll. Last year Longstaff had a tremendous year with his 2-year-olds, and he still can't get over winning both juvenile races on British Columbia Cup Day with Don't Pali Me in the Nursery and Dancewithavixen in the Debutante.

"It was awesome," he said. "And right now I'm pretty excited about how Dancewithavixen is training."

AUBURN, Wash. - Can Sabertooth sprint? Kay Cooper, assistant to trainer Jim Penney, had to smile when asked the question earlier this week. Throughout Sabertooth's 3-year-old season and for most of his 4-year-old campaign last year, it was generally conceded that Sabertooth was a brilliant sprinter. The question was whether he could handle a route distance, and he answered it definitively by winning the Grade 3 Longaces Mile and the 1 1/16-mile Washington Championship en route to Washington-bred horse of the year honors.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Josie Carroll and Mike DePaulo were the trainers hit hardest by the fire at Woodlands farm and training center on May 9, each losing six horses in a blaze that claimed the life of 22 horses.

Among Carroll's losses are the 3-year-old filly Dreamy Lover and 5-year-old horse Wires, both owned by Bill Schettine; the 4-year-old colt Abs, who raced for Thor Eaton; two 2-year-old fillies owned by Mark Stubbs; and a 2-year-old colt owned by Jean-Guy Gauthier.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Nearly every consistent horse runs a clunker every once in a while, which was the case with Krz Ruckus last time out in the Grade 3 Vigil Handicap.

Krz Ruckus should redeem himself against weaker, Ontario-sired opposition going six furlongs Sunday at Woodbine in the $127,625 New Providence Stakes.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - It didn't take long for 20-year-old Jillian Scharfstein, a 10-pound apprentice, to make her presence felt in Ontario.

Just two races, in fact.

Scharfstein, a native of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, was licensed as an apprentice last August at Northlands Park in Edmonton. By season's end, she had recorded 3 wins from 45 starts.

BALTIMORE, Md. - Kentucky Derby winner Funny Cide arrived in Baltimore for the Preakness just before 2 p.m. on Friday as trainer Barclay Tagg decided to ship him earlier than planned. The gelding left New York on a van at 9:20 a.m.

"With the weather the way it is I didn't want to take any chances," Tagg said in a Friday afternoon press conference in the Pimlico press box.

Heavy rains hit Baltimore Saturday morning and were heading to New York for late afternoon and evening. Originally, Tagg was planning to ship Funny Cide to Baltimore in the wee hours of Saturday morning.