With jockey Casey Lambert wisely setting just off fractions of :22.03 and :44.41, Funny Meeting scored an overlay win while running 6 1/2 furlongs in a track record 1:14.84 in Saturday's $50,000-added Bill Thomas Memorial Handicap.

ARCADIA, Calif. - There is no change in the rankings among 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita.

Composure on Saturday proved she is slightly better than Elloluv, beating her for the second consecutive time in the $300,000 . Composure outfinished Elloluv by a neck in the Grade 1 Las Virgenes Stakes over a mile on Feb. 9, and won the Oaks by three-quarters of a length.

In the Grade 1 Oaks, the heavily favored Composure ($2.80) ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.34, confirming her position as a leading candidate for the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs in May.

NEW ORLEANS - Ten minutes after the , Jockey Donnie Meche struggled for exactly the right words to describe Lady Tak's performance. Finally, he gave in to his gut reaction.

"She's just - she's just a freak," Meche said.

NEW ORLEANS - The major part of trainer Eleuterio Martinez Jr.'s long weekend in New Orleans will have been completed when Monday's Fair Grounds program rolls around. Martinez was to have saddled Winning Fans Sunday in the Grade 2, $750,000 Louisiana Derby.

Martinez's runner figured an outsider Sunday, but he's right in the middle of Monday's ninth race feature, a third-level turf allowance for fillies and mares with a $75,000 claiming option.

Martinez's Pleasant State comes off a fourth-place finish in a Sam Houston stakes race and fits the spot.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Typically, Gulfstream Park's dirt track is not kind to horses with bad feet. Saturday, it proved quite soothing to Tour of the Cat, who won a stirring stretch duel with Burning Roma to take the Grade 2, $200,000 by a head at Gulfstream Park.

It was 1 1/4 lengths back to Highway Prospector, part of the 3-5 favored entry along with Native Heir, who faded to seventh after setting the early pace.

OLDSMAR Fla. - The Killer Cuban stable is back.

When Libby's Dreams led from flagfall to finish to capture Friday's third race, it marked the fifth straight winner sent out by trainer Pete Antonucci. The streak was snapped later in the day when Dinner Withawinner broke slowly and failed to hit the board in a turf allowance race.

Antonucci's stable, which runs in distinctive orange silks, is nicknamed the "Killer Cuban" stable after the signature sandwich on the menu at the sandwich shop owned by Antonucci and Susan Hammer, who owns the stable's horses.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Nonsuch Bay, whose last victory came in the Grade 1 Mother Goose in June, drops into allowance company in Monday's $46,000 feature at Gulfstream Park. The race will be decided at one mile and 70 yards.

Nonsuch Bay has started just four times since the Mother Goose. She finished fifth in both the Grade 1 Alabama and Grade 1 Gazelle Handicap and second in Belmont's Pebbles Handicap to close out her 3-year-old season. She opened her 2003 campaign with a late-running third in the Grade 3, seven-furlong Shirley Jones Handicap.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Timing, it seems, is not Gygistar's strong suit.

Last fall, two weeks before the Breeders' Cup, Gygistar suffered a severe foot injury that prevented him from running in the $1 million Sprint.

Saturday, one week before he was to ship to Dubai for the $2 million Golden Shaheen, Gygistar was diagnosed with a chip in his right knee that will sideline him for several months. Gygistar was to undergo surgery in south Florida Saturday to have the chip removed.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - The opening of Aqueduct's main track has been delayed indefinitely because of persistent winter weather in New York. The main track originally was scheduled to open on Wednesday, but last week the opening was pushed back by two days and now racing will be conducted on the inner track at least through Sunday.

It wasn't nearly as easy as last time, but Seven Four Seven still was able to get up in the final yards Saturday to post a neck victory over Town Queen in the $50,000 Wintergreen Stakes at Turfway Park in Florence, Ky.

Jason Lumpkins was aboard Seven Four Seven, who returned $3.20 as the heavy favorite in a field of eight fillies and mares. Seven Four Seven, a 5-year-old mare owned by Sam Pollock and trained by Bernie Flint, had won her last start, the Likely Exchange at Turfway, with far greater ease.