MIAMI - Crafty C. T. and Echo Eddie tuned up for Saturday's $400,000 Smile Sprint Handicap at Calder with easy workouts at their home base of Santa Anita on Tuesday. Both horses were scheduled to be flown Wednesday to Miami, where they will join Caller One and Orientate and three others in the six-furlong Smile Sprint. The Smile shares top billing on the $1.4 million Summit of Speed card with the $400,000 Princess Rooney Handicap, a race that features the rematch between Xtra Heat and Gold Mover.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Fans and horsemen at Monmouth Park are taking notice. Jockey Carlos Cruz is having a breakout season.

At age 37, Cruz is having the best meet of his 18-year career. After winning just six races last year in his first full season riding at Monmouth, he has nearly tripled his success with 17 wins through last weekend, putting him into a tie for seventh in the jockey standings. Formerly a summer regular at Philadelphia Park, Cruz has made the transition to the big time at the Jersey Shore.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Yoto Speakes, who carried Chris McCarron to victory in National Thoroughbred Racing Association All-Star Jockey Championship last month while winning the final leg of the competition, returns in the seventh race Thursday night at Lone Star Park.

The five-furlong turf race is a $15,000 starter allowance that drew 10 runners.

Yoto Speakes is the one to beat on the heels of his win in the Jockey Championship.

AUBURN, Wash. - One maiden posted a stunning upset and two others were excluded. Those were the two hottest topics of conversation following last Sunday's six-furlong Angie C. Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Emerald Downs.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Roger Attfield found himself on the horns of an unexpected dilemma Tuesday morning.

Attfield had just watched Phantom Light, a 3-year-old colt he trains for Stronach Stable, breeze six furlongs in 1:16 on the Woodbine training track under jockey Robert Landry.

Phantom Light, who raced just twice as a 2-year-old, had gotten a late start to his current campaign.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - There was a time last summer when Tribal Rule was considered a candidate for the Breeders' Cup Sprint. This year, owners Marty and Pam Wygod and trainer Julio Canani would just like to see him start more than twice.

On Wednesday at Hollywood Park, the 6-year-old Tribal Rule makes his fourth career start in a $51,000 allowance/optional claimer over six furlongs.

EDMONTON, Alberta - The top two Thoroughbreds in Alberta squared off at Northlands Park last Saturday in the $40,000 Spangled Jimmy. And when the dust cleared, Sixthirtyjoe had defeated Rancour and asserted himself as the leading candidate for Horse of the Year honors in the province.

Joey, as he is known, came into the race with three stake wins on the year and added another with his outstanding performance, going three-wide through the finalturn before overtaking longshot Highland Leader down the lane.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Front-runners have more than held their own at the current Woodbine meeting over the E.P. Taylor turf course, which is cut noticeably shorter than most North American grass courses.

Short turf, on top of hard ground, has helped to create ideal circumstances for speed horses, and such conditions could be made-to-order for Leading Role in the third race on Wednesday's card.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Following a familiar trend, business at the Churchill spring meet that ended Sunday was up from all wagering sources but down slightly ontrack.

A record of more than $553 million was bet at all sources during the 52-day meet, up 6 percent over corresponding dates in 2001. A large chunk of that increase is attributable to record wagering on the May 4 Kentucky Derby, which was up 11 percent over last year.

Meanwhile, daily ontrack attendance and handle averaged 13,036 and $1,772,571, decreases of 4 and 1 percent.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Prairie Meadows completed its 53-day Thoroughbred meeting with a 17 percent increase in daily all-sources handle, while ontrack handle slipped 4 percent from the corresponding meeting in 2001.

Ontrack handle averaged $81,609 per day compared with $84,633 last year, while total handle per day was $774,863 compared with $661,319 in 2001. The decrease in ontrack handle, as well as a portion of the increase in total handle, is a result of the track replacing Sunday afternoon racing with Wednesday evenings this year.