While all eyes were on the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, trainer Graham Motion was already preparing a horse for the second leg of the Triple Crown.

Motion, whose horses are stabled a few miles away from Delaware Park at Fair Hill, Md., sent out Equality for a five-furlong workout over a track labeled wet-fast last Monday. Equality, winner of the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Derby on March 17 and second in the $250,000 Aventura Stakes at Gulfstream Park a month ago, was timed in 1:00.80 for his breeze.

CICERO, Ill. - Evidently, it did not take long for Summer Note to come around. Unraced since dead-heating in the 2000 Hutcheson Stakes, and having arrived here in trainer Richard Hazelton's barn only a couple weeks ago, Summer Note is set to resume his racing career Monday in Hawthorne's seventh race.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - War Emblem, allowed to coast alone on the lead, led from start to finish to capture the 128th at 20-1 on Saturday at Churchill Downs, giving trainer Bob Baffert his third Derby victory.

War Emblem was purchased less than a month ago by Baffert on behalf of Prince Ahmed Salman's The Thoroughbred Corporation. None of the dozens of 2-year-olds that Baffert began with one year ago panned out, forcing Baffert and Salman to buy their way into the Derby.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Danthebluegrassman, whose controversial late entry denied Windward Passage a spot in the starting gate, on Saturday morning was scratched from the 128th Kentucky Derby.

Churchill Downs's publicity staff reported that Danthebluegrassman "tied up" after a morning gallop.

His defection leaves the Derby with 18 runners. Buddha was scratched on Friday.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - More than six months and two season changes after it opened, Aqueduct closes it doors on Sunday, but not before the $100,000-added Beaugay, featuring Grade 1 winner Voodoo Dancer, is run.

Twelve fillies and mares entered the Grade 3 Beaugay, which will be run at 1 1/16 miles on the turf. Pleasant County is entered main track only.

CHICAGO - Blink, and you might miss the spring meeting at Hawthorne Race Course.

The Illinois Racing Board shook up the local racing calendar last year and assigned Hawthorne a split season, a slightly longer meet in the fall and winter and a shorter one in the spring. This spring, the emphasis is on short. Hawthorne's meet that begins Sunday includes only 23 racing days, seven fewer than last spring.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Now that the nagging hoof problems that plague many horses in winter are behind him, Redattore will put his best feet forward when he resumes his campaign Sunday in the Grade 3 Inglewood Handicap at Hollywood Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - All eyes will be on Ginger Gold, last year's Sovereign Award-winning champion 2-year-old filly, when she launches her 2002 campaign in Sunday's $163,500 Fury Stakes at Woodbine.

A field of seven Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies was drawn for the seven-furlong Fury, which has been the definitive prep for the Labatt Woodbine Oaks in recent years.

AUBURN, Wash. - Sunday's Hastings Park Handicap at Emerald Downs figures to offer a change of pace for the older filly and mare stakes runners, and it will be a welcome change for Bud Klokstad, the trainer of Personal Decision.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The 2001 Jack Diamond Futurity winner Long Rifle makes his 3-year-old debut in the $35,000 City of Vancouver Stakes at Hastings Park Sunday but will face stern opposition in what appears to be a well-matched field. The 6 1/2-furlong feature drew seven horses including Cruising Kat, who won an entry-level allowance race at Golden Gate and finished fifth to Danthebluegrassman in the Golden Gate Derby.