HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - The Gulfstream Park stewards have reduced jockey Eibar Coa's original 30-day suspension for his ride aboard Mr. Livingston in the Jan 26 Ft. Lauderdale Handicap to 15 days. The decision came after a re-hearing on the incident Thursday. Coa, who does not plan to appeal the latest ruling, will begin his suspension Sunday and can resume riding on March 7.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Trainer Shug McGaughey knows that the best chance Cat Cay has of beating speedsters Raging Fever and Tugger is if they "come back to her a little bit" at the end of Friday's seven-furlong Shirley Jones Handicap. And that might happen if those two fillies hook up in an early duel in the Grade 3 race.

Cat Cay rallied to finish second, beaten two lengths by Raging Fever, in the six-furlong First Lady Handicap four weeks earlier. And McGaughey figures the extra eighth of a mile may also enhance his filly's chance in Friday's rematch.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Despite a minor training mishap on Wednesday, Kedington has a good chance to win his second race in a $54,000 allowance race at Santa Anita on Friday.

After facing top 3-year-olds Labamta Babe and Siphonic in the Grade 2 Santa Catalina Stakes on Jan. 19, and finishing a well-beaten fifth, Kedington retreats to California-bred company in a first condition allowance race over a mile.

"That was a tough race," trainer Paco Gonzalez said of the Santa Catalina. "We didn't have any place else to go."

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Now that Red Bullet has firmly established himself as a force to be reckoned with in the handicap division this season following his huge effort in Saturday's Grade 1 Donn Handicap, his trainer, Joe Orseno, can begin focusing his attention on his other handicap star, Macho Uno.

Macho Uno worked five furlongs in 1:01.60 under exercise rider Keith Ricks here Wednesday. The move was the best of 33 on the morning tab.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Beaumes de Venise, whose career has been frequently interrupted because of injuries, won a $59,394 allowance race-optional claimer at Santa Anita on Wednesday, beating a field that included graded stakes winners Early Flyer and Skip to the Stone.

Beaumes de Venise finished six furlongs in 1:09.20, holding off a late run by Impressive Grades by 1 1/4 lengths. Rio Oro finished third, followed by Early Flyer, McCordnskuba, and Skip to the Stone. The first three finishers were entered to be claimed for $100,000, but were not taken.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Ben Cecil has two goals for Queenie Belle this season. "I'd like to try to get her to $1 million and I'd love to see her win a Grade 1," he said.

Queenie Belle is $379,210 short of the $1 million mark, but can make a significant dent into the difference with a victory in Sunday's Grade 1, $200,000 Santa Maria Handicap at Santa Anita.

Ron Scott, a Thoroughbred owner in the mid-Atlantic region for over two decades, scored with another breed of animal when Surrey Spice Girl, a miniature poodle he owns with his wife, Barbara, won the best-in-show award at the Westminster Kennel Club's 126th annual show at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Shippers continue to run well at Mountaineer Park. Last week, the first five-night racing week of the winter meet, horses who last raced at 11 different racetracks won.

Much like last winter, runners coming in from Turfway Park in northern Kentucky did best. Four Turfway shippers were winners.

Horses who most recently raced at Fair Grounds, Churchill Downs, Hollywood Park, and Aqueduct also won at least once.

GROVE CITY, Ohio - Veteran jockey Jorge Guerra has been on a roll through the first month of the Beulah Park winter-spring meeting and holds a 22-16 lead over Rex Stokes III as he goes for his first riding title here.

Stokes, who ranked among the leading apprentice riders in the nation last year, has adjusted well to his role as a journeyman rider.

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Riders Newil Wall and Kelly Murray started out the Fonner Park meet last week by sustaining injuries in separate starting gate incidents, and both were on crutches in the racing office when entries were taken Wednesday morning.

Wall sustained a hairline fracture just above the ankle in a gate mishap Saturday and reported the injury to be more like a high ankle sprain. His objective is to be aboard Leaping Plum when the 11-year-old aims for an eighth straight victory in Grasmick Handicap on Saturday.