NEW ORLEANS - Shane Sellers has a live mount in the Risen Star Stakes, although by late Sunday afternoon Sellers may not know quite where he is.

Sellers rides Golden Marlin here Saturday in the $150,000 Silverbulletday Stakes, then will hop a plane to Sam Houston Race Course to ride in the $200,000 Connally Breeders' Cup Handicap, where he will be on Freefourinternet for trainer Chuck Simon. Robby Albarado and Calvin Borel are in the same boat as Sellers, with mounts in both Fair Grounds weekend stakes and in the Connally.

NEW ORLEANS - Ronny Werner, former Quarter Horse trainer and Texan for life, worked outside his barn, grilling fajitas for his crew late Thursday morning. He took a break to present a smallish bay colt stabled directly across the shed row from his office.

"The secret is to see who the trainer keeps in the closest stall," Werner said. "That's usually the good one."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The Canadian International and the E.P. Taylor Stakes, which have been positioned in late September as Breeders' Cup preps for the past two years, have been moved back on the Woodbine stakes calendar and will be run this year on Oct. 19.

The repositioning of the $1.5 million Canadian International, a 1 1/2-mile race for 3-year-olds and up, and the $750,000 E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares, are the most significant changes on the stakes schedule for the 167-day meet which begins March 22.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Gary Stevens switches roles this weekend, from playing a jockey in the upcoming Seabiscuit movie to the real thing, attempting to add to his already illustrious Hall of Fame career.

Stevens is booked on five mounts on Sunday at Santa Anita, his first mounts since the Breeders' Cup last October at Arlington Park. In the last few months, Stevens has been busy working as an actor, playing the role of George Woolf in the Seabiscuit movie based on the popular book.

Less than two lengths separated the first five horses across the wire in last month's Native Dancer Stakes at Laurel Park.

Get ready for a possible rerun. All five are back to run 1 1/8 miles again in Saturday's $100,000 John B. Campbell Handicap.

The popular Maryland veteran P Day, still going strong at age 8, was all out to win the Native Dancer by a head. It was his 11th victory in 27 career starts at Laurel.

ALBANY, Calif. - Ema Bovary may not get a warm reception when she makes her United States racing debut against seven other older fillies and mares in Sunday's $60,000-added Richmond Handicap at Golden Gate Fields.

The 4-year-old Chilean-bred and -raced filly will have to face Lacie Girl, northern California's top female sprinter, and track specialist Onslaught, who has won five of her seven starts over the Golden Gate Fields track.

FLORENCE, Ky. - Jason Lumpkins is keenly aware that many people in the racing industry aren't putting much stock in what he has accomplished his winter at Turfway Park.

"They're all saying, 'Wait until Keeneland and Churchill Downs,'" Lumpkins said Thursday at Turfway. "That's when the big test will come."

No Its Not, who is undefeated at Delta Downs, will have to hold off the closing kick of new rival Seainsky to win Saturday night's $50,000 Delta Mile at the Vinton, La., track.

Seainsky rallied for second last out in the $100,000 Maxxam Gold Cup at Sam Houston on Jan. 18, beaten 1 1/2 lengths by Valhol. Before that race, Seainsky just missed in the $100,000 Woodchopper Handicap on turf at Fair Grounds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - With Vindication out of the picture and both Sky Mesa and Toccet still weeks away from their 2003 debuts, the 3-year-old division can certainly use an infusion of fresh blood to stir up a little excitement on the road to this year's Kentucky Derby.

Saturday's $200,000 Fountain of Youth at Gulfstream Park is the proper setting for one or more potential Derby horses to step forward. A field of nine promising 3-year-olds will square off at 1 1/16 miles in the Grade 1 race, which serves as the prep for the $1 million Florida Derby on March 15.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Two out of three isn't bad, unless you really, really, wanted all three. But two out of three is the hand trainer Todd Pletcher now holds for this weekend's major 3-year-old prep races.