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LAUREL -- Straight Forward drew off turning for home before holding on to win yesterday's Laurel Race Course feature race by a half-length.The 2-year-old colt finished ahead of a determined rally by Alamance County to capture the 1-1/16 mile allowance race. Love That Barney finished third and favored Coringa fourth.Edgar Prado, leading rider at the 53-day-old meet, rode Straight Forward, a son of Broad Brush. Prado rode two other winners on the 10-race card, giving him a 70-66 lead over Mike Luzzi.

LAUREL -- Whether Mixed Appeal becomes a standout does not concern trainer Dean Gaudet. "If she stays sound, she might become a nice filly," Gaudet conceded.Gaudet found herself cornered by four reporters yesterday at Laurel Race Course after Mixed Appeal made the second start of her career. When a horse wins its debut by 18 lengths, and in fast time, interest is piqued. So when Mixed Appeal posted another easy score, winning an allowance race by 5 1/2 lengths, there was the natural question: What gives?

The owner of a Woodbine glider-ride operation is seeking to reorganize under federal bankruptcy law, saying the cost of waging a lengthy battle with Carroll County zoning administrators is driving him out of business.Bay Soaring Inc., which operates out of the Woodbine Gliderport, filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act on Aug. 1, according to documents on file atU.S. District Court in Baltimore.On Thursday, H. Gerard Gaudet, president of Aviation Customer Services Inc., the parent company of Bay Soaring, said $80,000 in legal and administrative bills over the past eight years has pushed the business to the edge.

The owner of a glider-ride operation is seeking to reorganize under federal bankruptcy law, saying the cost of waging a lengthy battle with county zoning administrators is driving him out of business.Bay Soaring Inc., which operates out of the Woodbine Gliderport, filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act on Aug. 1, according to documents on file at U.S. District Court in Baltimore.On Thursday, H. Gerard Gaudet, president of Aviation Customer Services Inc., the parent company of Bay Soaring, said $80,000 in legal and administrative bills over the past eight years has pushed the business to the edge.

With half the race gone, Shine On High trudged through the mud as average as could be, fourth in a field of seven maidens in yesterday's fourth race at Pimlico Race Course.The colt raced ahead of three, but behind three -- and $875,000 behind what owner Israel Cohen paid for him as a yearling.It was an anxious moment for Dean Gaudet, the colt's trainer. But then, she said, "I've been anxious all day about this muddy track."Suddenly, with only minor coaxing from jockey Jo Jo Ladner, the colt surged, and with a furlong remaining, Shine On High had the lead.

After years of legal wrangling, the dispute over a glider-ride operation at a Woodbine airfield landed Friday where it began -- before county zoning administrators.The lengthy, convoluted dispute was revived when arguments over a zoning permit for the grass airstrip on Gillis Falls Road were presented to the Carroll Board of Zoning Appeals.On one side are airstrip owner Robert E. Harrison and Henry G. Gaudet, operator of the glider business. They say the county erredwhen it revoked the original permit in 1984 and issued a new one carrying several conditions.

After years of legal wrangling, the dispute over a glider-ride operation at a Woodbine airfield landed Friday where it began -- before Carroll County zoning administrators.The lengthy, convoluted dispute was revived when arguments over a zoning permit for the grass airstrip on Gillis Falls Road were presented to the Carroll Board of Zoning Appeals. The airstrip is located about two miles from where Route 94 crosses the Howard County border into Carroll County.On one side are airstrip owner Robert E. Harrison and Henry G. Gaudet, operator of the glider business.

LAUREL -- Eddie Gaudet has saddled another winner for the Maryland division of horses he handles for New York trainer John Parisella.The triumph yesterday at Laurel Race Course was with Star Touch, a French-bred, 4-year-old colt owned by Ted Sabarese, whose best horses are competing at Aqueduct.Star Touch rallied from last in the eight-horse Maryland City Handicap and won the seven-furlong race by 3 1/2 lengths as fifth choice.The Parisella-to-Gaudet pattern has worked well in recent weeks.