AUBURN, Wash. - Fleet Pacific shoots for a place in the record book when she takes on half a dozen challengers in Sunday's 6 1/2-furlong, $35,000 Washington State Legislators Stakes at Emerald Downs.

Make that several places in the record book.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Catahoula Rose looks like a standout in an unrestricted allowance race for 3-year-old fillies at Hastings Park on Sunday. The 1 1/16-mile race drew seven 3-year-old fillies, but only Catahoula Rose has gone farther than 6 1/2 furlongs.

Catahoula Rose's best races have come at 1 1/16 miles. She came within a half-length of winning the Fantasy Stakes last September and then shipped to Turf Paradise, where she finished third in three straight stakes, including the $75,000 Arizona Oaks, also at 1 1/16 miles.

CALGARY, Alberta - Viva Ruckus and Grovenor figure to battle to the wire in Sunday's $15,100 seventh race for fillies and mares.

The six-furlong sprint drew six entrants sporting claiming prices of $20,000 but shapes up as a two-horse race.

Viva Ruckus finished three-quarters of a length in front of Grovenor last time out in open company to grab place money behind Old Victory.

The two mares were entered in the May 21 sprint after their race failed to fill and both gave good accounts against their male foes.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When Pat Day became just the third jockey to reach the 8,000-win milestone on Thursday, he served notice that he could ultimately become racing's all-time winningest rider.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Even a victory in Sunday's Grade 1, $250,000 Milady Breeders' Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park will leave Feverish a few thousand dollars short of the $1 million mark in earnings.

But the seven-figure earnings mark is not as important to trainer Dan Hendricks and owners Marty and Pam Wygod as the distinction that Feverish would gain for winning a Grade 1.

"I've done the math," trainer Dan Hendricks said. "If she wins this, she's worth a million."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Heliotrope, last year's champion turf female, will try to win the $196,175 Nassau Stakes for the second straight year Sunday at Woodbine.

The 1 1/16-mile turf race drew a diverse field of eight fillies and mares, including American invaders Zeiting and Great Fever.

After missing most of 1999 with an injury, Heliotrope had a remarkable 2000 campaign. She won four of nine starts, including the Grade 3 Nassau by a nose after running fourth in the allowance prep for the race.

Eleven stakes worth $950,000 are scheduled for the 2001 meet at Ellis Park in Henderson, Ky. that begins on July 11. The richest event, the Grade 3 $200,000 Gardenia Stakes for older fillies and mares at 1 1/8 miles, is the only graded event of the meet and has been moved up in the schedule two week to Aug. 11.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park on Friday announced a 7 percent cut in overnight purses effective Wednesday, the second time in three years that a reduction has occurred in the middle of the spring-summer meeting.

In addition, six stakes scheduled from mid-June to the end of the meeting on July 16 were cut by $50,000.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Joe Orseno is starting to get that look again. It's the look of a man who is bringing a howitzer to a knife fight. It's the look he displayed in the days leading up to the 2000 Preakness when Red Bullet upset Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus.

Sunland Park in New Mexico has added a major stakes to the national calendar: the $250,000 Sunland Park Super Stakes on Dec. 29.

Sunland Park management will ask the American Quarter Horse Association's graded stakes subcommittee for a Grade 1 designation at the subcommittee's October meeting, and approval is expected.

The starters in the 400-yard race will come from the winners of selected stakes in the Southwest and the Grade 1 Champion of Champions, which will be held at Los Alamitos on Dec. 16.