CALGARY, Alberta - Sunday's rematch of Teeworth Plate winner Sixthirtyjoe and runner-up Rancour could be billed as David versus Goliath.

Sixthirtyjoe is a slender 4-year-old gelding, while Rancour is a strapping 5-year-old who casts a much larger shadow. Their battleground is the $50,000 Herald Gold Plate, at 1 1/16 miles.

The two protagonists are part of virtually the same cast from the May 19 Teeworth, in which Sixthirtyjoe starred.

Tyko Tycoon is expected to be the early leader, a role he tackled vigorously last time, posting sizzling fractions.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Handicappers are on their own assessing the favorites in the $75,000 Manhattan Beach Stakes on Sunday at Hollywood Park. Three obvious contenders - Fun House, Carinae,

and Oriana's Magic - enter the 5 1/2-furlong turf race with sharp current form, easily understood.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - Over the past few years, the fields for the Canterbury Park Breeders' Cup Derby have not been big. But the race usually manages to attract a quality horse or two, such as last year's winner Fan Club's Mister, Del Mar Show (second, 2000), and Maysville Slew (first, 1999).

Just six 3-year-olds were entered for this year's $100,000 Canterbury Park Derby, a one-mile turf race, and two of them - It'sallinthechase and Teague - are stakes winners. None in the field has won a stakes on turf, however.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Catch the Ring, the 2000 Canadian Oaks winner, will launch her 2002 campaign in Sunday's $134,375 Ontario Matron Handicap, a 1 1/16-mile race for fillies at Woodbine.

A Fleets Dancer and Win City, both Canadian champions in 2001, will clash in the excellent supporting feature on the card, an allowance prep for the July 1 Dominion Day Handicap.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Last September, Clearly a Queen won the Grade 3 Violet on the turf at The Meadowlands. But she failed to win in her next six starts, all stakes, four of them graded.

Clearly a Queen, who had been trained by Bobby Barnett and Bill White in her previous races, came to the barn of Teresa Pompay at the start of the Monmouth meet, and she won her first start for Pompay, on May 26 in an allowance on grass.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Xtra Heat, last year's 3-year-old filly champion, puts a cap on a terrific weekend of racing at Belmont Park Sunday as she heads a field of seven scheduled to run in the $150,000 Vagrancy Handicap.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Veteran jockey R. D. Williams notched his 3,500th career victory Wednesday night at Prairie Meadows.

The 47-year-old Williams began the day by scoring win number 3,499 with a front-running ride aboard longshot Dig In Duggie ($90.20) in the evening's first race, a six-furlong maiden claiming event.

Williams, who began his career in 1976 and has been a fixture in the Midwest since then, got his milestone victory in the eighth race, a one-mile 70-yard allowance contest, aboard Tsunami Girl ($10.20) for trainer Donnie K. Von Hemel.

SAN MATEO, Calif - The California Horse Racing Board on Thursday postponed a decision on a controversial proposal for the Los Angeles County Fair to conduct its 17-day 2002 racing meeting at Santa Anita instead of Fairplex Park in Pomona.

The board voted unanimously to hold a special meeting sometime this month in the Pomona area to discuss the issue. The vote was taken after a motion not to allow the move was defeated in a 3-3 vote, with one commissioner abstaining.

ELMONT, N.Y. - You rebounded from her disappointing effort in last month's Kentucky Oaks with authority Friday, fending off two early challenges and drawing clear for a 7 1/4-length victory in the Grade 1, $250,000 at Belmont Park.

Willa on the Move finished second, 4 3/4 lengths ahead of 3-5 favorite Bella Bellucci. Nonsuch Bay and Dust Me Off completed the order of finish. Proper Gamble was scratched because she was sick, according to trainer Todd Pletcher.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - If trainer Bob Hess Jr. had a chance to do it over, he wouldn't hesitate to purchase National Park.

National Park, a British-bred 3-year-old gelding, will be the highweight and possible favorite in Sunday's $55,000 Round Table Handicap at one mile on the Longden Turf Course at Bay Meadows.