ARCADIA, Calif. - Mayakovsky breezed five furlongs in 58.60 seconds on Wednesday at Santa Anita, where he may make his next start.

Trainer Patrick Biancone said Mayakovsky is being considered for the $750,000 Santa Anita Derby on April 6 as well as the $750,000 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct a week later. In his only start of the year, Mayakovsky won the Gotham Stakes over a mile around one turn at Aqueduct on March 17.

"I was not expecting him to recover so fast, put his weight back on as fast," Biancone said. "It's a possibility we'll stay here."

Kama Shootin will try for his eighth straight victory and fourth consecutive stakes win when he starts in the Grade 3, $30,000 Special Hank Handicap over 870 yards at The Downs at Albuquerque on opening day, Friday.

The 48-day mixed meet runs through June 17, on a Friday-through-Monday schedule.

"We're starting with about $90,000 a day in purses, which is about the same as we ended with last year," said Roddy Taylor, the track's racing secretary. "We bumped purses a couple of times last year."

Bobby Barnett, a three-time training champ at Louisiana Downs in the 1990's, will return to the Bossier City, La., track this summer with a string of horses for the first time in two years. Barnett, who will also continue to race in Kentucky, said the improved purse structure at the track is one of the reasons for his return.

This year, purses during the summer meet at Louisiana Downs have been boosted 40 percent to $200,000 a day. The meet starts June 28.

SUNLAND PARK, N.M. - Reflecting Colors, a 4-year-old colt making his first start for trainer Henry Dominguez, served notice that he will be a serious horse on this circuit, with an impressive performance in Tuesday's seventh race at Sunland Park.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Jockey Ed Cervantes will likely miss the remainder of the Fonner Park meet after breaking his collarbone in an incident after a starting gate malfunction in last Friday's seventh race.

Cervantes, aboard Me and Mr. T., was the first into the gate. After four horses had been loaded, the gates sprang open. Cervantes did not have his feet in the irons and fell heavily on his shoulder about a sixteenth of a mile away from the gate while trying to pull up.

VINTON, La. - Finalists for the $100,000-estimated Jean Lafitte Futurity on April 7, the highlight of the Delta Downs spring meeting, were determined during a series of three trials last Thursday.

The most impressive qualifier was the first trial winner, Pancho's Karma. Trained by Chad Hassenflug and ridden by veteran C.J. Woodley, Pancho's Karma ($4) made short work of six rivals in winning by six lengths with something left. Pancho Karma was clocked in 46.67 seconds for four furlongs, not far off the track record of 46.20 set by Rock Afire in 1994.

Trainer James Wilkinson endured a terrible season in 2001, winning with just three of the 78 horses he saddled. But this year, Wilkinson is enjoying a reversal of fortune.

Wilkinson's horses won a pair of 5 1/2-furlong starter allowance races on back-to-back programs at Mountaineer Park earlier this week, improving his record to 5 for 28 on the year.

Monday night, 5-year-old mare Mitty ($36.20) won for the first time in five starts since Wilkinson claimed her for $6,500 last September.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Another year, another winning stakes debut for Wake at Noon.

Showing no signs of slowing down at age 5, Wake at Noon registered an impressive victory in last Saturday's $96,800 Briartic Handicap, the opening-day feature at this marathon Woodbine meeting.

Wake at Noon, a homebred who races for Bruno Schickedanz, had won the Achievement in his first start here at 3 and the Jacques Cartier in his opener here last April.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - At a time of year when many good 3-year-olds are being stretched out in distance in the hope they develop into Derby prospects, a pair of talented Oaklawn Park-based colts will be cutting back to six furlongs Thursday in a wide open allowance for 3-year-olds worth $41,000.

Cojet and Richest Half have both done the two-turn thing, finishing seventh and fifth in separate divisions of the $75,000 Southwest Stakes over a mile here March 2. Both won the last time they sprinted.

ALBANY, Calif. - Just as Kentucky Derby fever is beginning to peak, a few members of the crop of horses eligible for the 2003 Derby will be unveiled Thursday at Golden Gate Fields - 10 2-year-olds making their debut in a two-furlong race.

Many in the industry question the idea of two-furlong races for juveniles, but some rules have helped to slow a rush to the races. Babies must be 2 calendar years old and X-rays of their knees must show that they are closed before they are allowed to race. In addition, jockeys are not allowed to use whips.