AUBURN, Wash. - Silver Screen Girl will head a compact field of five in Friday's top offering at Emerald Downs, a 6 1/2-furlong race for 3- and 4-year-old fillies eligible to be claimed for $25,000 to $20,000.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Ready or not, Golden Apples makes her first start in three months in Saturday's $400,000 John Mabee/Ramona Handicap.

A major stakes winner at Santa Anita in March, Golden Apples was rested through the spring after being treated for a cyst or abscess in her throat, under her epiglottis, trainer Ben Cecil said. The ailment was discovered after she finished second to Astra in the Santa Barbara Handicap at Santa Anita in April.

DEL MAR, Calif. - There are few days in racing quite like opening day at Del Mar, where the party-like atmosphere has made it a must-do on the social scene in Southern California. Wednesday's opener, run in ideal conditions, was the best in track history, with 37,284 squeezing themselves into the track and their skimpy outfits.

Churchill Downs Inc., which owns six racetracks in the United States, had record net income of $23.1 million, or $1.73 a share, in the second quarter of 2002, company officials said Wednesday.

Revenues in the quarter, which included the Kentucky Derby, Churchill's most lucrative event, were $172.6 million, also a record and an increase of 6 percent over revenues in the second quarter of 2001. Net income was 6 percent better than the second quarter of 2001.

Colonial Downs in Virginia closed its 26-day summer meet on Tuesday with double-digit increases in nearly all attendance and handle categories, the track reported Wednesday.

Average ontrack attendance of 2,204 was 13 percent better than the attendance figure from last year. Ontrack handle of $191,212 was up 20 percent over last year and a record for the track, which opened in 1997.

Jockey Ramon Dominguez, second in the country in races won, broke his wrist in a spill at Delaware Park on Wednesday.

Lovely Lady, the 6-5 favorite in the seventh race, held a clear lead in midstretch of the 1 1/16-mile turf race when she seemed to bobble and then fell heavily, throwing Dominguez to the ground.

Fans at Philadelphia Park got a sneak peek at some of the local horses who could be strong contenders in next month's Claiming Crown in a series of preview races held at the Bensalem, Pa., oval last Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday.

As the host track, Philadel-phia will likely be represented by at least two horses in each of the six Claiming Crown races on Saturday, Aug. 31.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. - After a one-year hiatus, Canterbury Park's Hall of Fame will add four new members on Saturday. The people to be inducted are Bernell Rhone and Dan Mjolsness, and the equine inductees are Honor the Hero and John Bullit.

Rhone, a trainer, has won races here every season Canterbury has conducted a race meeting since its opening in 1985. Some of his most notable horses were Lady Slipper winner Dot's Moment, Minnesota Derby winner Now Playing, and Northern Lights Futurity winner Tez Tarak.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - Agricultural Park in Columbus opens its 25-day meet Friday night with eight weekends of racing to be presented on the five-eighths mile oval.

The barn area has filled up nicely through the week and stall applications exceeded the nearly 800 stalls available on the grounds. A majority of the leaders from last year's jockey and trainer standings have returned.

LAFAYETTE, La. - Trials for the Bayouland Sales Futurity, the second leg of the Evangeline Triple Crown for Juveniles, were held last Friday with the top six finishers from each of the two qualifying races set to go in the finals Aug. 3. The Bayouland is restricted to yearlings purchased in one of Louisiana Thoroughbred Breeders' Sales in the past year.