SANDTRAP, FASTNESS WILL GO IN TURF FEATURES.

Byline: Kevin Modesti Daily News Staff Writer

An up-and-comer and a comebacker are featured in the weekend's turf stakes at Hollywood Park.

Three-year-old Sandtrap goes for his first graded-stakes victory in the Grade III, $100,000 Will Rogers Handicap today after back-to-back wins that earned the two highest Beyer speed ratings in the 10-horse field.

Six-year-old Fastness, the Breeders' Cup Mile runner-up and Citation Handicap winner, races for the first time since November in the Grade III, $125,000 Inglewood Handicap on Sunday.

Sandtrap, owned by Robert Hibbert of Texas and trained by Ben Cecil since the death of Rodney Rash, was assigned 119 pounds for the one-mile Will Rogers, one more than California Derby runner-up Let Bob Do It. Sandtrap's jockey, Eddie Delahoussaye, rode three of the meet's first 11 stakes winners.

Let Bob Do It and Benton Creek are the other stakes winners in the field of 3-year-olds.

In the Inglewood, a 1 1/16-mile grass race for 3-year-olds and up, Fastness will carry 122 pounds and be ridden for the first time by Corey Nakatani, while Gary Stevens sticks with Tychonic, a winner of five straight stakes for trainer Bobby Frankel.

Helmsman will be making a lesser comeback in the Inglewood. He hasn't raced since displacing his soft palate while finishing fifth in the March 2 Santa Anita Handicap.

Helmsman, carrying 120 and ridden by Chris McCarron, has won two of four races on turf and two of three on dirt - including his Strub Stakes victory - since trainer Wally Dollase bought him in France.

``This horse is one of those special ones that can go on either turf or dirt,'' Dollase said.

The five-horse Inglewood includes Dernier Empereur and College Town.

Hollywood Park will take bets on the Illinois Derby at Sportsman's Park and the Withers at Belmont Park today but not the Pimlico Special, a four-horse race headed by Cigar stablemates Geri and Wekiva Springs.

Hollypark will be open Monday for the first of four times this season.