POMONA, Calif. – The final Saturday of racing at the Los Angeles County Fair is the last easy chance for Curly Top or Tree of Life to win a stakes.

Curly Top and Tree of Life are key players in the $50,000 Pomona Derby for 3-year-olds, race 11 on the Barretts at Fairplex card. In the $50,000 Las Madrinas Handicap for fillies and mares, race 9, Toomanytomatoes faces Ruby Pumps. Both races are at 1 1/16 miles.

Curly Top finished seventh at Del Mar his most recent start, with an alibi. Trainer Bob Baffert accurately described the colt’s trip. “It was horrible,” he said.

Like last year, the story line entering the Grade 2 Pennsylvania Derby is a rematch of two Travers horses. And like last year, the story line coming out of Saturday’s $1 million Pennsylvania Derby could be about a California shipper who stole the money.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The $100,000 Deputy Jane West, a new six-furlong overnight stakes for 2-year-old fillies, failed to create a rush to the entry box as just five entrants heeded the call. But the Deputy Jane West still is a contentious event, and recent maiden winner Dulcify could be a mild upsetter Saturday.

Dulcify, a Kentucky-bred owned by Wendy O’Leary and trained by Norm McKnight, was making her fourth career start when she won a five-furlong maiden race here Aug. 4.

West Virginia-bred star Lucy’s Bob Boy will make a rare stakes appearance against open company in Saturday night’s $85,000 Wild and Wonderful, one of nine supporting stakes on a Race for the Ribbon 13-race card at Charles Town headlined by the $400,000 Researcher and the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks.

ELMONT, N.Y. – After Dance to Bristol left Saratoga with her second stakes victory of the meet in the Grade 1 Ballerina, trainer Ollie Figgins III figured his filly’s next engagement would be a tad easier.

Not so much.

When Dance to Bristol seeks her eighth consecutive victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $300,000 Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park, she will face a group that includes Grade 1 winner Dance Card, the undefeated Grade 2 winner Cluster of Stars, and the recent sharp overnight stakes winner Holiday Soiree.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Churchill Downs has released its stakes schedule for the 2013 fall meet with the only major changes being a lack of 2-year-old stakes on the front end of a five-week meet that begins Oct. 27.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Gulfstream Park has added the Sunshine Millions Preview Day on Nov. 9 to the stakes schedule for the current summer-fall meeting, which runs through Nov. 30. The Preview Day card, which will comprise eight stakes for Florida-breds worth a total of $1 million in purses, will serve as a prep for the $1.3 million Sunshine Millions, to be held at Gulfstream on Jan. 18.

Portales, who has banked more than $100,000 through her six appearances at Assiniboia Downs, heads a field of nine 3-year-old fillies in Saturday’s Jack Hardy Stakes.

The $30,000 Jack Hardy, a 1 1/16-mile race, will go as the sixth of seven races on the penultimate card of the meeting. Post time for the first race is 7 p.m. Central.

Portales, based in Minnesota with trainer Charlie Smith, is 3 for 3 over the Assiniboia oval this year, with her successes including the six-furlong Chantilly and one-mile Assiniboia Oaks.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Three of the nine 3-year-old fillies entered in the $100,000 Dogwood Stakes on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs also were cross-entered in the $400,000 Charles Town Oaks later that evening, and two of them are forsaking their Kentucky homes for West Virginia.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – It just doesn’t seem fair. Trainer Marty Wolfson will send out a four-pronged attack against the only 3-year-old in the field, the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint-bound Wildcat Lily, in Saturday’s $100,000 Musical Romance Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The race is named in honor of the winner of the 2011 Filly and Mare Sprint, who was based in south Florida with trainer Bill Kaplan throughout her racing career.