ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The field for the Woodbine Oaks on June 15 is beginning to take shape after last Saturday’s $150,400 Fury Stakes, a key local prep for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Wild Catomine, trained by Mark Casse and owned by John Oxley, captured her first stakes victory and remained undefeated in the Fury, as she stalked the early pace and held off Hot and Spicy and Lexie Lou in the final strides.

“I thought Gary [Boulanger] rode her really well,” Casse said. “She’s a talented horse.”

Mike Teel, an Oklahoma-based trainer who won titles at Will Rogers Downs and Fair Meadows, died Friday, according to friends. He had been battling cancer. Teel was 63.

Teel on Monday was represented by the final winner of his career when first-time starter Copper Flash captured the eighth race at Will Rogers, a maiden special weight sprint for fillies and mares bred in Oklahoma. The 3-year-old had been entered prior to her trainer’s death.

Finger Lakes canceled its Thursday card in order to maintain field size for the rest of the week, the track announced Tuesday. The card would have been the first Thursday program of the meet, which began April 18 and runs through Dec. 5.

Jockey G.R. Carter will enter Thursday night’s Quarter Horse program at Remington Park on the verge of becoming the sport’s all-time leading rider by wins. He is seven from tying the mark of 3,631 held by the retired Alvin Brossette.

Carter, who already owns the sport’s earnings record, had won 3,624 races from 22,925 mounts through Monday, according to statistics provided by the American Quarter Horse Association. He has eight mounts on Thursday’s card, including This Snow Is Royal, a 25-time winner set to run in the third race at the Oklahoma City track.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Lone Star Park trainer Dallas Keen has branched out with his stable, sending 13 horses to Gulfstream Park. He shipped into the Florida track about two weeks ago and had a second- and third-place finish Friday from his first two starters there. Keen also will continue to operate at Lone Star, where he has 16 horses, including five new prospects from North America’s leading stable this year in wins, Midwest Thoroughbreds.

BALTIMORE – Regarding jockey Julian Pimentel’s first Triple Crown mount, the memories are all about the experience, not the result.

Pimentel rode Norman Asbjornson in the 2011 Preakness for Maryland trainer Christopher Grove. The colt, off a fourth-place finish in the Wood Memorial, was a 42-1 shot and ran like it, stalking the pace for half the race before fading to 11th.

BALTIMORE – If Wesley Ward has been typecast as a master with 2-year-old Thoroughbreds, well, so be it.

“Over the years, clients started upgrading their pedigrees, and I’ve gotten to train some really nice babies,” Ward said. “Eventually, the horses get older, you know. That’s allowed me to build a pretty nice stable.”

One of those flashy 2-year-olds has matured into a 3-year-old worthy of running in the Triple Crown series: Pablo Del Monte, bred and owned by Ward in partnership with the powerful Coolmore group, will start Saturday in the 139th Preakness Stakes at Pimlico.

It was business as usual with no surprises in Golden Gate Fields’s weekend stakes.

Luscious Lonna repeated Saturday in the $59,450 Golden Poppy Stakes. She went off as the even-money favorite when morning-line favorite Halo Dolly scratched.

The odds-on G. G. Ryder, sitting nicely behind Latitudefortytwo, took command in the stretch Sunday to win the $75,000 Alcatraz Stakes.

When the New York Racing Association announced major increases to its stakes purses this year, longtime Pimlico racing secretary Georgeanne Hale felt she had to do something to compete.

So, Pimlico has come up with a $100,000 bonus system that is enticing trainers to enter more horses than they might have otherwise in the 15 stakes to be run here Friday and Saturday.

“We felt we had to come up with a way to get bigger fields for fans to bet on Preakness Weekend,” said Hale, the racing secretary here since 2000.

BALTIMORE - Kentucky Derby winner California Chrome, escorted by four Baltimore city police officers on motorcycles, arrived at Pimlico Racecourse a little before 3:15 p.m. Monday after shipping from Churchill Downs.