Chaposa Springs rescheduled to retain Grade 3 status

Calder Racing Secretary Bob Umphrey has rescheduled the $100,000 Chaposa Springs H.

from New Year's Day to December 31 in order to preserve its Grade 3 status.

"We feel it is very important to the owners and breeders of the fillies and

mares that will run in this race to earn the graded status as it has been

advertised all year, that is why we're making the change to run the race 24

hours earlier," he said.

The seven-furlong test was downgraded on Wednesday from Grade 3 to ungraded

status for 2005 by the American Graded Stakes Committee.

The rescheduling leaves a hole on the Grand Slam III program, but Umphrey is

carding another stakes race in its place, maintaining the theme of the event and

keeping the All-Stakes Pick 4 wager intact. The new race will be the $50,000

Happy New Year S. for newly turned three-year-old fillies going five furlongs on

the turf.