OCEANPORT, N.J. – The decision by owner-breeder Ron Winchell and trainer Steve Asmussen to run Untapable against males in the Haskell Invitational assures a packed grandstand on Monmouth Park’s biggest day of the year next Sunday. Despite Untapable’s presence, a good-sized crowd also is expected in the starting gate.

As of Wednesday, eight colts were preparing to take on the nation’s leading 3-year-old filly at 1 1/8 miles. Her main challenger figures to be Bayern, the winner of the Woody Stephens with a 107 Beyer Speed Figure for Bob Baffert.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Trainer Edwin Broome will send out his 2-year-old New Jersey homebred Posse Dreamin for his third try in a maiden race Friday at Monmouth Park. So far, Posse Dreamin has finished second twice behind some high-priced stock.

In his debut at 4 1/2 furlongs June 7, Posse Dreamin chased home Souper Colossal, a $350,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling purchase last summer who is trained by Eddie Plesa Jr. Posse Dreamin was beaten 1 3/4 lengths while finishing a length in front of the third-place Distinctivelyforu.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though Saratoga boasts a rich stakes schedule, it is the 2-year-old program that truly makes this 40-day meet special.

One never knows from where racing’s next star will emerge, but the confluence of top barns from New York and Kentucky make it likely that at least one 2-year-old of significance will emerge from here.

The winners of all three Triple Crown races in 2012 had run here the previous summer. Last year saw the debuts of subsequent graded stakes winners Honor Code, Havana, Sweet Reason and Stopchargingmaria.

Friday’s $29,500 first-level allowance feature brings together an evenly matched group of Louisiana-breds. Witch Hunt, fourth in the Lafayette Stakes June 21, could be a slight favorite in the 5 1/2-furlong affair. The Brett Brinkman charge picked up a non-winners-of-two victory for a $20,000 claiming price in his only other start here this season. Jansen Melancon has the return call.

OPELOUSAS, La. – Things could start to look a little different atop the Evangeline Downs jockey ranks beginning this week.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The local 2-year-old division was so loaded at Del Mar last summer that California Chrome could only manage to finish fifth in the season-ending Del Mar Futurity, a race in which top-class runners Tamarando and Dance With Fate ran one-two, while the Del Mar Debutante went to She’s a Tiger, who went on to be named her division’s champion.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - With division leader Untapable confirmed to take on males in the $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park on July 27, the field for Sunday’s Grade 1 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga is expected to draw a field of seven 3-year-old fillies.

The field will be led by Kentucky Oaks runner-up My Miss Sophia and her stablemate Stopchargingmaria, the winner of the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. Both fillies are trained by Todd Pletcher.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Ring Weekend, the winner of the Tampa Bay Derby on dirt in March, will return to the grass in Friday’s co-feature, the $100,000 Sir Cat Stakes for 3-year-olds at a mile. In his only turf race, Ring Weekend finished second to Divine Oath in a maiden race at Gulfstream Park on Jan. 18. Divine Oath won Saturday’s Grade 3 Arlington Derby.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainers D. Wayne Lukas and Todd Pletcher have combined to win 10 runnings of the Schuylerville Stakes for juvenile fillies. There’s a 40 percent chance that one of them will win it again.

Only five 2-year-old fillies were entered Tuesday for the Grade 3, $150,000 Schuylerville Stakes, the traditional opening-day feature on Friday’s 10-race card at Saratoga. Due to the short field, it will be run as race 3 on the program.

Laurel Park’s fall stakes schedule was approved by the Maryland Racing Commission on Tuesday. The schedule is similar to 2013, but the dates of some races have changed as the 2014 meet opens approximately two weeks earlier than a year ago.

Major changes to the schedule are:

* The $350,000 Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash will be run Nov. 15 this year as it continues to search for a home on the calendar. In 2012, the De Francis was run Oct. 27. Last year, it was moved up to opening weekend and held Sept. 21.