INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A horse who is racing above his allowance conditions is not necessarily racing over his head. Don't believe it? Tune in this weekend at Hollywood Park, where three logical contenders - each eligible for an easier spot - enter stakes races they are clearly capable of winning. Even if they are in tough.

Cashmina, eligible to a two-other-than allowance, faces Azeri and Affluent on Saturday in the Grade 1 Milady.

Crowned Dancer, a maiden, will be one of the favorites Sunday in the $65,000 Willard Proctor Memorial for 2-year-olds.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Exactly one year ago on May 23, Erica's Smile won her maiden for trainer Jeff Bonde.

She was so impressive that day that she was entered in a stakes race at Hollywood Park and was the morning-line favorite, but was scratched after developing a fever. Two days after the fever was detected, she was diagnosed with pneumonia.

Erica's Smile finally returns to the races Thursday, and appears to be the one to beat in the Bay Meadows feature race, a six-furlong $40,000 optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Congaree on Tuesday morning became a definite for the Grade 3, $300,000 Lone Star Park Handicap after he worked seven furlongs at his Churchill Downs base. Monday's 1 1/16-mile race will be his first since he finished third in the Grade 1 Jim Dandy at Saratoga last August.

The Lone Star Park Handicap is the richest of seven stakes Monday on a card known as the Lone Star Million Day.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Ken McPeek said he expects to run Take Charge Lady in Saturday's Dogwood Stakes at Churchill Downs after the filly worked a half-mile in 49.20 seconds here Tuesday morning.

Take Charge Lady, whose three-race win streak was snapped when she finished second as the favorite in the May 3 Kentucky Oaks, was expected to be an overwhelming favorite last Friday in the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico. But after being diagnosed with a lung infection, McPeek withdrew her from the race, saying he hoped to run her in the Dogwood instead.

ELMONT, N.Y. - An interesting pair of allowance races, which are part of the pick six, add spice to Thursday's nine-race card at Belmont Park.

The sixth race, worth $50,000, is the 2002 debut for Ransom's Pride, last year's champion 3-year-old filly and turf female among New York-breds. Among Ransom's Pride's five rivals in the third-level allowance is Real Cozzy, who is back on dirt after losing her grass debut earlier this month.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Left Bank and Affirmed Success, the top-weighted horses and the headline names in a terrific lineup for Monday's $750,000 Metropolitan Handicap, worked at Belmont on Tuesday.

When Met Mile weights were released Tuesday, next in line at 119.

Congaree, assigned 117 pounds, will run in Monday's Lone Star Park Handicap instead of the Met.

On the main track, after the harrowing break, Left Bank worked in company with stablemate I'm All Yours, a New York-bred stakes runner.

Your Out will be headed for bigger challenges after cruising to a 3 1/2-length victory in Tuesday's $55,000 Summer King Stakes at Delaware Park.

Trainer H. Graham Motion said he will take a long look at the Obeah, a $100,000 stakes at 1 1/8 miles on June 22 at Delaware, as the next start for Your Out, a 4-year-old filly who has won six of 12 lifetime starts. If she handles that test, the long-range goal could be the $600,000 Delaware Handicap at 1 1/4 miles on July 21.

ALTOONA, Iowa - Jockey Terry Thompson broke the single-day riding record at Prairie Meadows when he rode six winners on the 10-race program Monday afternoon.

Thompson started with a win aboard Endless Honour ($6.80) in the first race, captured the fourth with Country Warrior ($4.20), and the sixth by a nose on first-time starter Mystery Hit ($6.20). In the seventh race he rode Brown Eyed Major ($22.20) to a wire-to-wire victory.

AUBURN, Wash. - Age was served at Emerald Downs on Sunday, as a pair of rejuvenated 8-year-olds dueled through the stretch en route to a track-record clocking in the Fox Sports Net Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs.

At the wire it was Crowning Meeting by a neck over California invader Profound Secret in 1:13.80, a time that demolished the track record of 1:14.40 set by Edneator in 2000.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario-Texas invader See How She Runs remained unbeaten in five starts with an authoritative 5 1/2-length victory in the Grade 1, $280,250 Selene Stakes at Woodbine Monday.

See How She Runs stalked a three-way pace battle in the 1 1/16-mile event for 3-year-old fillies. Ginger Gold, Mulrainy and Whiletheiron'shot hooked up through splits of :23.08 and :46.89, with the former emerging with the lead after three-quarters in 1:12.22.