MUSKEGON, Mich. - Born to Dance, Great Lakes Downs's 2001 horse of the year, will return to racing at the friendly confines of this track Friday, heading a field of 10 statebred fillies and mares in the $45,000 Larkspur Handicap, the first stakes race of the meet.

Born to Dance won all five of her races here last year, and pretty much was in front every step of the way of every race. She was headed only briefly in the early going of her first two races. Born to Dance earned three "easily" and two "handily" chart comments for the five victories.

Juveniles will take the first step to a possible $4 million bonus when the Ruidoso Downs 61-day summer season opens Friday afternoon with 224 entrants in 23 Ruidoso Futurity trials.

Starting this year, if a horse wins the three major Grade 1 Futurities at Ruidoso Downs - the Ruidoso Futurity, the Rainbow Futurity, and the All American Futurity - he or she will earn a $4 million Quarter Horse Triple Crown Bonus. The last horse to sweep the three races was world champion Special Effort in 1981.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - The Grade 1, $250,000 Mother Goose Stakes at Belmont Park on June 29 is one of three races trainer Donnie Von Hemel is considering next for See How She Runs, who remains undefeated in five starts after a 5 1/2-length win Monday in the Grade 1 Selene Stakes at Woodbine.

See How She Runs, who was to return to Lone Star Park base on Friday, is also under consideration for the $150,000 Iowa Oaks at Prairie Meadows on July 3, and the $125,000 Walmac Lone Star Oaks on turf July 4.

STICKNEY, Ill. - The once-beaten 3-year-old Cashel Castle no longer is being considered for the Northern Dancer Stakes on June 15 at Churchill Downs, according to trainer Chris Block, who is uncertain when and where Cashel Castle will next race.

Block said Cashel Castle has not bounced back from his most recent start, the April 27 Derby Trial, as well as he had hoped.

"At first, I thought he came out of the race better than he came out of his last start," Block said.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - See How She Runs took the money in Monday's Grade 1 Selene at Woodbine and scooted back to Texas, probably never to be seen again in these parts.

But the 1 1/16-mile Selene still had important local implications, as it represented the final step toward the Labatt Woodbine Oaks for the three Canadian-breds in the field.

Ginger Gold, beaten 5 1/2 lengths as the second-place finisher, and Mulrainy, who ended another length back in third, both will proceed to the $500,000 Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile race on June 8.

Dean Kutz, who agreed to take off his mounts at Canterbury Park opening weekend after his drug test turned up "a little cloudy," according to Minnesota Racing Commission officials, has been reinstated to ride and is named on horses at the Shakopee, Minn., track Friday night.

MUSKEGON, Mich. - The Michigan Office of the Racing Commissioner held a public hearing Tuesday in Livonia, Mich., to discuss the rule governing the distribution of purse money generated by wagering on incoming simulcasts. The meeting was attended by representatives of the state's Thoroughbred, Quarter Horse, Standardbred, and breeding industries.

Bob Miller, president of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association, and attorneys representing Magna Entertainment Corp., which owns Great Lakes Downs, spoke against the wording of the rule.

LINCOLN, Neb. - Speed on the rail was the rule on last Friday's opening night of the State Fair Park meeting at Lincoln. The 34-day meet opened with front-runners winning seven of the evening's eight races, while the only winner to close made up just two lengths on the backstretch.

The speed bias was less of a force on Saturday and Sunday, but its presence was still evident.

Thistledown-based trainer Miguel Feliciano shipped in three horses to run in high-priced allowance races at Mountaineer Park last weekend, and all three invaders won.

Feliciano sent out Ran South ($27.80), and Night of Delight ($25.40) for back-to-back wins against open allowance company on Saturday night's card. Feliciano saddled his stable star, Majestic Dinner, on Sunday, but had to settle for a dead heat as Majestic Dinner, last year's Best of Ohio Endurance winner, hit the wire together with local stakes winner Nature.

Two weeks after riding five winners on a card at Philadelphia Park, Jose Flores did it again last Saturday.

Flores scored with Frontera Poncho ($24.60) - the longest price in a four-horse field - and then won three consecutive races with Al Dente ($7.40), All Faithful ($5), and Unique Opportunity ($4.40). He completed his five-win day by scoring with Track Cat ($13) in the 10th.

Trainers Uriah St. Lewis and Tony Correnti each sent out two of the winners Flores rode.