ARCADIA, Calif. - In the last six weeks, Miss Guts has gone from being the winner of a claiming race for maidens to the object of a private purchase.

Following her win in a $62,500 claiming race on March 29, her third consecutive win, Miss Guts was sold by a partnership to Lloyd DeBruckyer of Montana.

On Friday, she runs in a non-claiming race for the first time since September in a $53,000 optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies on the hillside turf course. She is scheduled to be shipped later this month to Prairie Meadows in Iowa, where DeBruckyer campaigns a stable.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - The nightmare ends Friday for Lake Lady and Chamrousse. There is no Take Charge Lady to chase in the Fantasy at Oaklawn Park, something of a dream come true for those two, who have been left in the wake of the East's top 3-year-old filly in their last two starts.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodbine introduced a lucrative new program this year of maiden special weight races and first-level allowance races restricted to Ontario-sired runners. Two races for Ontario-sired horses are the only two non-claiming races on Friday's 10-race Woodbine card.

The featured eighth race, a five-furlong first-level allowance race for older fillies and mares, is worth $59,100.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - If the quality of a race can be fairly gauged by the trainers with horses in it, the Maker's Mark Mile is top-shelf indeed.

Bobby Frankel and Neil Drysdale have sent horses from the West. Bill Mott and Jim Bond have horses stopping by on their way from Florida to New York. Mark Frostad and Dallas Stewart are represented by recent arrivals from the Fair Grounds.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Looking for a late-developing Kentucky Derby prospect? Then take a look at Mr. Mellon, the Rushaway Stakes winner who could go favored Saturday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park.

The 1 1/8-mile race drew a field of 11 on Wednesday, with Mr. Mellon set to break from post 10 under Larry Melancon.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Victory Ride, making her first start since winning the Grade 1 Test Stakes last July and then undergoing surgery several weeks later, made a triumphant comeback Wednesday, winning the inaugural running of the $111,300 Madison Stakes at Keeneland.

With Edgar Prado riding for owner Watts Humphrey and trainer Rusty Arnold, the 3-2 favorite Victory Ride defeated Celtic Melody, the 4-1 third choice, by a length.

Away finished third, while Nasty Storm, the 5-2 second choice, faded to fifth in a field of seven fillies and mares.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Screen Idol overtook pacesetter Cojet on the final turn and went on to a 1 1/2-length win over Missme in the $75,000 Northern Spur Stakes on Wednesday at Oaklawn Park. It was another half-length back in third to Thunderpumper.

Screen Idol ($12.80) raced in third early in the one-mile race behind Cojet, who opened up about 10 lengths on the field down the backside, running the opening four furlongs in 44.60 seconds. Screen Idol advanced on the final turn, and went on to cover the distance in 1:38.20.

Business at Turfway Park continued its slide at the three-month winter-spring meet, which ended April 4 at the Florence, Ky., track.

Average ontrack handle, at $417,389, and all-sources handle, $3,680,049, both were down 4 percent from corresponding dates last year, while ontrack attendance, 1,710 daily, was down 13 percent. Per-day purse payouts slipped 11 percent, to $157,810.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - The fourth race at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 9 had just been run and trainer James Bond was crestfallen. Harbor Star, a 3-year-old Bond was extremely high on, finished second in his career debut.

At the time, it mattered little that Bond had won the earlier division of the split maiden race with a horse named , who had run seven furlongs in 1:23, 1.50 seconds faster than the race Harbor Star had lost.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - John Kimmel twice got fortunate in Florida when looking for races in which to run Quiet Lake. Now back in New York, Kimmel appears to have found another soft spot for Quiet Lake, who heads a five-horse field entered in a third-level allowance race Friday at Aqueduct.