Whosleavingwho should be the odds-on favorite to post his second Grade 1 derby win at Los Alamitos when he starts in the $250,000 Los Alamitos Derby on Saturday night.

Whosleavingwho, owned by Jim Geiler and Kim Kessinger, won the Grade 1 Los Alamitos Winter Derby on Feb. 24 as the 4-5 favorite.

Whosleavingwho's success has not been limited to Los Alamitos. He campaigned at Ruidoso Downs last summer with a second-place finish to Feature Mr Jess in the Grade 1 Rainbow Derby and a fourth behind Stoli in the Grade 1 All American Derby.

Chauffe Au Rouge, a $20,000 claim whose status as an accredited Texas-bred has been under investigation since he won the restricted $100,000 Texas Hall of Fame Stakes in course-record time Oct. 6, takes on open-company stakes rivals Saturday night in the $25,000 Buffalo Bayou at Sam Houston Race Park in Houston.

Front Nine, a 2-year-old colt who has won two of his last three starts by a combined 33 lengths, looks for his second career stakes win Saturday in the colts and geldings division of the Friendship Stakes at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La.

The six-furlong race is restricted to Texas-breds nominated to the Friendship series, and if all seven horses entered start, the purse for the race will be $72,274.

EAST BOSTON, Mass. - Circus Bar seems to have the best speed of the 13 2-year-olds set to run in Saturday's $25,000 Anthony Despirito Stakes at Suffolk Downs. Although he will likely be the post-time favorite, his mission will be complicated by the outside post in the six-furlong race. Jorge Vargas has the call.

ANDERSON, Ind. - Saturday's Hoosier Debutante, which will carry a $100,000 purse for the second consecutive year, has drawn a wide-open field of 11 2-year-old fillies, including four stakes winners and three other stakes-placed runners.

The six-furlong feature has been carded as the fourth race on the 11-race "Ladies' Night" card.

Races 7 through 9 will feature a female jockey challenge. Locals Cindy Noll, Beth Butler, Joddie Fortner, Rhonda Collins, and others will compete against imports Greta Kuntzweiler, Zoe Cadman, and Cindy Herman-Medina.

PHOENIX - Trainer Sean McCarthy probably figured that by shipping Bel Serenata to Turf Paradise things would be easy, since he was getting away from the graded stakes-caliber female turf runners in Southern California.

But as a full field of 10 gets ready for Saturday's $30,000 Chandler Handicap, McCarthy may find things don't always go according to plan. The 7 1/2-furlong turf race for 3-year-old fillies doesn't have Reine de Romance or Cindy's Hero to worry about, but the competition is stiff and figures to test Bel Serenata to the fullest.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Local sprinters spotted for a getaway payday in the $100,000 Kennedy Road on Dec. 1 probably will have unwelcome company.

The potential spoiler is Impeachthepro, who checked in at Woodbine for a hit-and-run mission in late September and is back in town under the care of trainer Bobby Pion.

Impeachthepro, a 4-year-old gelding owned by Nick Laneve and William Warner and trained by Mike Ferraro, has won 12 of 18 starts and finished second or third four times, earning $349,422 while competing almost exclusively in New York-bred company.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Now that he is the king of New York-breds, Say Florida Sandy looks to expand his kingdom to neighboring New Jersey with a start in Friday's $100,000 Chief Pennekeck Stakes at The Meadowlands.

Say Florida Sandy and his connections will be looking for a rebound in the six-furlong contest, following a troubled loss at 4-5 in the Henry Hudson Handicap at Belmont Park in his last race. The runner-up performance was still good enough to make him the highest-earning runner bred in New York, pushing his bankroll to $1,750,925.

The average all-sources handle on Delaware Park racing registered a modest increase this year.

Figures released Wednesday for the 2001 meet that concluded last Sunday showed $282,505,422 was bet on Delaware's races by ontrack and simulcast bettors. Compared with last year's $289,794,172, the total handle was down 2.5 percent. But because the track raced 139 days this season, 10 fewer than in 2000, the average daily handle rose 4.5 percent, to $2,032,413.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Gino's Spirits was sold Wednesday at Keeneland but still will get to make what figures to be the final start of her career Saturday in the Cardinal Handicap at Churchill Downs.

"We're going to get to run her," trainer Elliott Walden said soon after Gino's Spirits was sold for $550,000 to the Newsells Park Stud of Klaus Jacobs, a German commercial breeder.