SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - John's Call, the irrepressible 10-year-old gelding, completed preparations for Saturday's Grade 1 Sword Dancer Invitational on Tuesday by working five furlongs in 1:03.07 over Saratoga's main track. Under regular rider Jean-Luc Samyn, John's Call began the work in company with a stablemate but went past him early in the move. Trainer Tom Voss said the company was used "just to get him into the work."

FERNDALE, Calif. - With a restocked barn, trainer Gary Greiner hopes to capture his first training title at the Humboldt County Fair, which opens its 105th meet Thursday.

Greiner will try to get a quick jump on his opposition when he sends out barn newcomer Kings Honor in the five-furlong, $3,400 Irv Parlato Purse, the opening-day feature. The Parlato Purse lured six $4,000 claiming sprinters.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Sulaymondo, who has been racing well in claiming company at Hollywood Park, looks tough to beat when she meets five other fillies and mares in the $32,000 allowance feature at six furlongs at Bay Meadows Thursday.

The race is for fillies and mares, 3 and up, who have not won $3,000 other than maiden or claiming.

Trainer Cole Norman won a remarkable 14 races from 21 starters last week at Louisiana Downs in Bossier City, La., and now has his sights set on breaking the track's record for wins in a season, 99, which was set by Frank Brothers in 1987.

AUBURN, Wash. - Sunday's 6 1/2-furlong Governor's Handicap at Emerald Downs was billed as a titanic battle between perennial sprint champion Handy N Bold and Edneator, last year's Longacres Mile winner and horse of the meeting, and for a memorable half-mile it was just that.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Tiznow's head hung low after a taxing seven-furlong workout Tuesday at Del Mar, but the mood was decidedly upbeat at trainer Jay Robbins's barn after the reigning Horse of the Year moved closer to a comeback that seemed improbable only three months ago.

"I think he's back, it's just a question of getting him fit," Robbins said after the work. "He's got the same desire, and when he's right, he likes to keep going."

On Tuesday, Tiznow wanted to keep going.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - When trainer David Paulus won his first graded stakes in the Grade 3 Amsterdam on Aug. 4 last year with Personal First, he was on the top of the world.

One year later at Monmouth, Paulus was ecstatic just to win a maiden $16,000 claiming race, his first win of the meet here.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Six older fillies and mares square off in a $25,000 optional claiming race at 6 1/2 furlongs Wednesday evening at Hastings Park, and Actxotic figures to be the one they'll have to catch.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - It seems trainer Bill Mott has cornered the market on stakes-winning grass horses with King Cugat, Hap, and Baptize in his barn.

Baptize gave the Hall of Fame trainer his latest win in a turf stakes on Monday at Saratoga in the $150,000 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Handicap.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Point Given was scheduled to head back to California on Tuesday, two days after his victory in the $1.5 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park further secured his lock on the 3-year-old colt championship and increased his chances of being named Horse of the Year.

His victory restored order to a division that was thrown a curve when Congaree, Point Given's stablemate, finished third as the prohibitive favorite at Saratoga in Saturday's Jim Dandy Stakes. He suffered a season-ending knee injury.