ARCADIA, Calif. - A little more than two months ago, just before the Breeders' Cup, trainer Bobby Frankel had a hammerlock on the older horse division. Aptitude had won the Jockey Club Gold Cup, allowing Frankel to keep Lido Palace, the Whitney Handicap and Woodward Stakes winner, out of the Breeders' Cup Classic for the Japan Cup Dirt.

Then it all went wrong. Aptitude was the beaten favorite in the Classic, and Lido Palace ran up the track in Tokyo, a straggler in a strange land. They were rare blips during Frankel's late-season stakes assault.

GROVE CITY, Ohio - A memorial service for apprentice jockey Arnold Ruiz was held Sunday in the Beulah Park winner's circle prior to the races. Ruiz died in a three-horse spill here Saturday afternoon.

The accident happened when Winds of Sonora, ridden by Ruiz, took a bad step and fell in midstretch of the third race. Both Kaicoltra, ridden by Chuck Costanzo, and My Martina, ridden by Mike Heath, fell over Winds of Sonora and Ruiz. Neither Costanzo nor Heath was seriously injured.

MIAMI - Bobby Frankel has had a year other trainers only dream about. And it's not over yet.

Frankel figures to add to his already imposing graded stakes winning total for 2001 campaign when he makes a rare visit to south Florida for Saturday's Grand Slam II program. Frankel will send out multiple Grade 1 winner Super Quercus in the $150,000 W.L. McKnight Handicap and The Seven Seas in the $150,000 La Prevoyante Handicap. The two California invaders will be the starting highweights and likely favorites in the Grade 2 races.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - After watching Coyote Lakes prevail in a hard-fought 1 1/2-mile duel over Banner Headline on Dec. 9, trainer Bruce Levine was concerned about whether the horse would be able to bounce back quick enough to run in the Gallant Fox Handicap.

After watching him train the past two weeks, Levine is no longer worried and is very much looking forward to Coyote Lakes trying to defend his title in Saturday's $100,000 Gallant Fox Handicap at Aqueduct.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - The way his horses have been running lately, it seems only a matter of time before trainer Erik Juvenon finds Aqueduct's winner's circle.

His time could come Wednesday when Juvenon sends out Mickey the Groom in the featured preliminary allowance race at nine furlongs as racing resumes at Aqueduct following a three-day holiday break.

Timeless Love, a 29-1 shot, drew clear entering the stretch, then barely lasted to defeat Bo's Sister by a nose Saturday in the $48,000 Gowell Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

Timeless Love was ridden by Greta Kuntzweiler, who urged the Gilded Time filly to an open lead after turning for home in the six-furlong Gowell. The move paid off, as a torrid late run by Bo's Sister, a 5-1 shot, fell short by the narrowest of margins.

The winner paid $61.80 after finishing in 1:11.02 over a fast track. The 9-7 exacta paid $420.60.

Colorful Tour, owned and trained by Noel Hickey, edged clear Saturday to a 1 1/4-length victory over even-money favorite Mucho Rapido in the $106,000 Jim Edgar Illinois Futurity at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney, Ill.

GROVE CITY, Ohio- Closing weekend of the Fall meeting at Beulah Park was marred by a horrific three horse spill which killed one rider and sent another to the hospital.

The incident took place when Winds of Sonora ridden by apprentice Arnold Ruiz broke down in midstretch of the third race, both My Martina, ridden by Mike Heath, and Kaicoltra ridden by Chuck Costanzo, fell over their fallen rival.

Kaicoltra appeared to step on Ruiz's back as she went down.

NEW ORLEANS - Fan Club's Mister was the most accomplished horse running in the $100,000 Woodchopper Handicap on Saturday at Fair Grounds. He also drew the worst post in the race, 14, but with two scratches and a quick dash from the starting gate, Fan Club's Mister cleared the Woodchopper field before the first turn and outclassed it in thestretch, leading virtually all the way to win by a half-length.

JAMAICA, N.Y. - Summer Colony had already demonstrated the ability to win easy. In Saturday's $111,100 Ladies Handicap at Aqueduct, she showed she could win the hard way too.

Seemingly on her way to another easy score in her stakes debut, Summer Colony began to pull herself up in midstretch and had to fight off a late challenge from the hard-charging Stop for Schnapps to win the Grade 3 Ladies by a neck. Strolling Belle, the two-time defending Ladies champion, finished another 4 3/4 lengths back in third.