HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Sweet Promises became the youngest stakes winner in Florida, posting a neck victory over Supah Blitz and four other 2-year-olds in Friday's $80,600 Valid Appeal Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Stylelistick posted her second win in as many starts this year when she closed with a flourish Friday to win the $112,100 Appalachian Stakes at Keeneland.

Ridden by Pat Day and trained by Bill Mott, Stylelistick paid $7 as second choice in the Appalachian, a one-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies. Lush Soldier, a 14-1 shot, also closed well to finish second, 2 1/2 lengths behind Stylelistick and three-quarters of a length before front-running August Storm.

New Jersey racing officials and horsemen announced Friday that they have reached a three-year agreement on racing dates and pledged to aggressively pursue the establishment of offtrack betting and telephone and internet wagering.

Under the agreement, Monmouth and The Meadowlands will hold a combined 141 live racing dates in each of the next three years. Monmouth and The Meadowlands will also pay horsemen $3.3 million this year to cover an underpayment last year and to settle a dispute on simulcasting distributions.

AUBURN, Wash. - The $35,000 U. S. Bank Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, an opening weekend fixture at Emerald Downs since the track opened in 1996, will head a nine-race program at Emerald on Sunday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Whistling Maid, riding the wave of a two-race win streak, will try to stretch her speed out to seven furlongs in Sunday's $134,375 Lady Angela Stakes, for Ontario-sired 3-year-old fillies, at Woodbine.

Whistling Maid, a homebred owned by Robert Weber, hit the board in four of her first five outings at 2 for trainer Glenn Magnusson. She finally graduated in her seventh start in November, leading throughout a five-furlong maiden special and putting up a Beyer Speed Figure of 80.

CALGARY, Alberta - Brighton Belle, winner of three stakes and runner-up to Little Lolitta as champion 3-year-old filly on the Alberta circuit last year, makes her 2002 debut versus four rivals in a six-furlong allowance at Stampede Park Sunday.

Brighton Belle has not been headed from the gate in her past eight starts, going back to her 2-year-old season, and will prove difficult to catch in this prep for the May 5 M.R. Jenkins Memorial.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Trainer Bill Morey is wise beyond his years, thanks in good part to working as an assistant to his father, William J. Morey Jr.

Bill Morey knows a horse's worth and where it is best to run him, as evidenced by his 23 percent win percentage this year.

And he has Schnitzel spotted nicely in Sunday's feature at Bay Meadows, a one-mile turf race with a $25,000 claiming tag.

Since claiming the 6-year-old mare Schnitzel for $25,000 on Nov. 26, 2000, Morey has seen her win four times in 10 starts and earn $81,240.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Swept Overboard ended 2001 as the top sprinter in California.

In October and November, he scored wins in the Ancient Title Breeders' Cup Handicap and Hollywood Turf Express, and was fourth, beaten only a length, in the Breeders' Cup Sprint at Belmont Park.

Apparently, those accomplishments did little to impress the opposition. When Swept Overboard launches his 2002 campaign in Sunday's $125,000 San Simeon Handicap at Santa Anita, he faces a strong field over about 6 1/2 furlongs on turf.

AUBURN, Wash. - International showdowns have enlivened Northwest racing for decades, and another such match-up will occur on Sunday when British Columbian star Lasting Code invades to take on local star Strong Credentials and others in Sunday's six-furlong, $35,000 U. S. Bank Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

The Queen's Plate, Canada's most famous race and the oldest continuously run race in North America, has an intriguing history, especially when it comes to Canadian owners and breeders who have dominated the winner's list.

Joseph Seagram won eight consecutive Plates as an owner n the 1890's, and 15 Plates in total.

E.P. Taylor's legendary Windfields Farm won the race 11 times including five runnings between 1959 and the great Northern Dancer in 1964.