CALGARY, Alberta - C D Cool and Little Lolitta will renew their rivalry in Sunday's Penny Ridge for 3-year-old fillies, the closing day of Stampede Park's 42-day stand.

The pair finished in a dead heat for first in the June 2 Lilac, and both camps had reason to believe they could have won the one-mile race outright with better racing luck.

Little Lolitta chased rapid early fractions and tired inside the sixteenth pole, while C D Cool was in tight quarters along the backstretch before unleashing a strong stretch drive.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Undefeated Castle Mountain will be gunning for her fourth straight win as the tries 1 1/16 miles for the first time in Sunday's $35,000 Liberation Stakes at Hastings Park. She will be facing five other 3-year-old fillies, and Catahoula Rose looks like the one she will have to beat.

Castle Mountain has gone to the head of the 3-year-old filly class with two overwhelming performances this year. In both races she used a powerful move around the stretch turn to take command at the top of the stretch and then just cruised home from there. She

AUBURN, Wash. - Crafty Boy will seek an overdue stakes victory on Sunday when he meets nine other handicap stars in the one-mile, $75,000 Budweiser Emerald Handicap at Emerald Downs.

AUBURN, Wash. - Crowning Meeting, who will make his first start at the current Emerald Downs meeting in Sunday's $75,000 Emerald Budweiser Handicap at a mile, is an exceptional wet-track runner. But the fact that Crowning Meeting, a 7-year-old son of General Meeting, is undefeated in three starts over wet surfaces only hints at his prowess.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Jorge Duarte Jr. is not like most other 16-year-olds. Instead of roaming the halls of a high school during the day, Duarte rides Thoroughbreds from 1 to 5 p.m. at Monmouth Park.

Duarte, a Colombia native, is riding as an apprentice at Monmouth, after beginning his career on Nov. 1. That day, he won in just his second start for trainer Alan Goldberg at Aqueduct. He eventually finished ninth in the Aqueduct jockey standings.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - So far, Expected Program has handled everything he has faced in his brief career.

In his debut in late April, Expected Program blew the turn in a maiden race over 4 1/2 furlongs, but rerallied to win. In the Willard Proctor Memorial Stakes on May 26, he was challenged by Fonz's in early stretch, but won his stakes debut by a neck.

In Sunday's $75,000 Haggin Stakes over 5 1/2 furlongs, the

2-year-old Expected Program will be heavily favored to remain unbeaten. Despite breaking from the outside in the field of eight, he will be heavily favored.

Some horsemen at Rockingham Park responded on Friday to a temporary restraining order prohibiting them from blocking the sale of Rockingham's simulcast signal by boycotting the entry box for Sunday.

Although the racing office received 65 entries on Friday for Sunday's nine-race card and had to drop one race, track officials said they would hold live racing on Sunday despite the boycott. "It's a little slow, but we managed to put together a program," said Ed Callahan, Rockingham's general manager, on Friday afternoon.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Driving home from the track Wednesday night, jockey Richard Migliore winced when he thought about what could have been.

Approaching the top of the stretch in Wednesday's Belmont feature race, Migliore heard two loud pops emanating from the right side of his mount, Bonneville. It was the sound of her sesamoid bones breaking in her right front ankle. Migliore quickly pulled up Bonneville and was lucky the filly didn't fall down. He was luckier still that the riders behind him were able to avoid hitting Bonneville.

ELMONT, N.Y. - David Donk says he erred by running Ruff three times in six weeks this winter at Gulfstream. To correct the mistake, Donk has given the filly plenty of time to recoup and prepare for the second half of the year.

Donk hopes the freshening starts paying dividends on Sunday when Ruff takes on nine rivals in the $100,000 Sands Point Stakes, a Grade 3 race for 3-year-old fillies scheduled at nine furlongs over Belmont Park's inner turf course.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Stocks Are Rising, who missed by a nose in a similar spot May 28, rates as the one to beat in the $34,000 allowance feature at Bay Meadows Sunday.

The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds and up will be the ninth on a 10-race card, which closes out the 2001 Bay Meadows spring meeting. The scheduled feature, the $50,000 Pacifica Handicap, failed to attract sufficient entries and was canceled. It was the second straight day that the scheduled stakes was canceled.