Seymour to design clothing line for Saks

LOS ANGELES -- Jane Seymour, best known for her TV series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman," will design clothing and accessories for girls and boys in a new line for Saks.

Seymour, who also has written the children's book "This One 'N That One," has been designing clothes since 2000. Under its agreement with Seymour, who also paints, Birmingham, Ala.-based Saks will hold exclusive U.S. rights to design, produce, distribute and sell the clothes and other items.

The 51-year-old actress also is set to design a line of home products, including decorative items such as vases. The clothing will be for newborns to children 7 years old. All the merchandise will debut in Saks stores in fall 2003, the department store said Wednesday.

Last place finish does not discourage singer

RUIDOSO DOWNS, N.M. -- His horse finished last in the $2 million All American Futurity, but country music star Toby Keith isn't going to pull back on his venture into quarter horse racing.

"You can't catch any fish if you don't have your bait in the water," Keith said as he waited to watch his 2-year-old colt, The Down Side, run in the futurity.

Keith, Ruidoso Downs owner R.D. Hubbard and Texas businessman John T.L. Jones teamed up to buy several yearling quarter horses at a sale in Ruidoso last year.

The Down Side was fast enough to qualify for the All American, the quarter horse industry's version of the Kentucky Derby.

"For the last six or seven years, I've been heavily involved in the thoroughbred business," Keith said. "This is my first quarter horse thing to be involved with. We get in a partnership, buy six or seven horses and one of them qualifies for the All American."

-- From wire reports