ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Six Sexy Sisters, a full-sister to Canadian Triple Crown winner Wando, will make her much-anticipated stakes debut Sunday at Woodbine in the $160,950 Ontario Lassie, a 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-old fillies.

Six Sexy Sisters' only start came in an Oct. 4 maiden special, which was taken off the grass and run at a mile and 70 yards on the main track. Sent off as the 5-2 favorite, she stalked the pace along a dead rail, took control on the far turn, and drew off to score by eight lengths under a hand ride from Patrick Husbands.

GROVE CITY, Ohio - Defending champion Scout Me is one of 15 Ohio-breds entered in Sunday's $40,000 Ruff/Kirchberg Memorial Handicap.

Scout Me is the 121-pound highweight in the 1 1/4-mile Ruff/Kirchberg but is winless in seven starts this year and drew the outside post in the large field. Beulah's leading rider Marco Ccamaque has the call on Scout Me.

ANDERSON, Ind. - Mr. Mink and Ellens Lucky Star will try to stretch their win streaks to four when they head their respective stakes Sunday at Hoosier Park.

Mr. Mink will run in the $35,000-added To Much Coffee Stakes for older Indiana-breds, while Ellens Lucky Star will run in the $35,000-added Frances Slocum for statebred fillies and mares. Both races are run at 1 1/16 miles.

In the To Much Coffee, Mr. Mink seeks his third straight stakes victory at the meet in a field of nine that includes entrymate Donnies Pick.

ALBANY, Calif. - The first steps on the northern California Derby trail begin Sunday at Golden Gate Fields with the $60,000-added Golden Bear Stakes.

Nine 2-year-olds were signed up for the six-furlong race, although some connections did so reluctantly.

"That's the way the thing came up," said trainer Bud Klokstad, who will enter stakes winners Market Report and Corvallis Dee. "I have no other choice but to go there. You can't pass up the race or your horse won't run for seven or eight weeks before the next stakes."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The 2003 Woodbine meeting is winding down, with closing day set for next Sunday.

But there's already major news about the 2004 meeting, which now is scheduled to begin on Saturday, April 17.

The Woodbine Entertainment Group's original racing dates application was for a 167-day meeting beginning April 3 and concluding Nov. 28. The backstretch was to open for training on Feb. 15.

The Churchill Downs press box, which is scheduled to be ready for the 2005 Kentucky Derby, will be named "The Joe Hirsch Media Center" in honor of Daily Racing Form's longtime executive columnist, the track announced Friday.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Earlier this week, the $250,000 on Saturday was shaping up as a clash between high-profile stakes winners The Tin Man and Megahertz.

Neither was entered on Thursday. The Tin Man injured an ankle and is unlikely to start until next year. Trainer Bobby Frankel had second thoughts about paying $15,000 to supplement and start the 4-year-old Megahertz against males. She will be pointed for the Dahlia Handicap on Dec. 20.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The Tin Man, fourth in the Breeders' Cup Turf last month, was not entered for Saturday's $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup after he was found to have suffered an ankle injury Thursday, trainer Richard Mandella said.

The Tin Man was expected to be a strong favorite in the Grade 1 Turf Cup.

Mandella said The Tin Man "wrenched an ankle" but X-rays showed no damage.

"It's a little tender," Mandella said. "It's just a little setback."

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - It stopped raining in New York at 10 a.m. Thursday, and two hours later the sun burst through the clouds, giving racing officials hope that Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 Red Smith Handicap would remain on the turf.

Pity, too. It was shaping up as a more intriguing race on dirt, with Evening Attire and Snake Mountain prepared to square off.

Instead, handicappers must decipher the inconsistent form of 12 runners whose combined record in 2003 is 12 for 89. The Red Smith, run at 1 3/8 miles, is the last turf stakes scheduled in New York this year.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The last time trainer Pat Kelly shipped Riskaverse to Kentucky, she went home with all the money. On Saturday, more than 13 months after hitting that career pinnacle, the New York-based Riskaverse will be back in town as part of a terrific field of fillies and mares in the $150,000 at Churchill Downs.

Riskaverse is one of a handful of major contenders in the 30th running of the Grade 3 Cardinal, a 1 1/8-mile turf race in which Bien Nicole will start as the 120-pound highweight. Riskaverse, with 118 pounds, is second on the weights list.