VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Code Name Fred will put his three-race win streak on the line in the Hastings feature, a 1 1/16-mile allowance race for 3-year-olds and up that haven't won a stakes of $20,000 or more in 2003.

While Code Name Fred, who races for Bar None Ranches, hasn't won a stakes race this year, he has won plenty in his career and comes into Sunday's race with more than $400,000 in earnings. He's also very sharp, having won all three of his starts in October at Northlands Park.

Ashagio was the big winner at Fort Erie's annual awards banquet Thursday, taking home honors as horse of the year, top distance male, and best claim of the 2003 meeting.

A 5-year-old gelding owned by his trainer, Daryl Ezra, and Russell Wintle, Ashagio was claimed from a win in his 2003 debut at Fort Erie on April 26.

Ashagio went on win 6 of his 13 subsequent starts at the meeting, adding four second-place finishes. He earned $128,583 on the year.

GROVE CITY, Ohio - Catch My Cat heads a field of nine Ohio-accredited 2-year-olds in Sunday's $35,000 Ohio Freshman Stakes at Beulah Park.

Catch My Cat is the only two-time winner and the only stakes winner entered in the six-furlong Freshman, by virtue of his gate-to-wire victory in the Cleveland Kindergarten at Thistledown on July 4.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - If You're Lucky, winner of the third race here last Sunday for owner-trainer Nick DeToro, has been disqualified from all purse money after the stewards were notified that he had been ineligible to race for the claiming price at which he was entered.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - If Blowin in the Wind runs his "A" race in Sunday's allowance feature, it should be good enough to win. The problem is that Blowin in the Wind has made a habit of saving his best performances for six-figure stakes races.

High winds have forced the cancellation of Friday racing at Philadelphia Park.

Due to unsafe track conditions, Friday's live racing at Turf Paradise has been cancelled.

Due to unsafe track conditions, Friday's live racing at Finger Lakes has been cancelled.

High winds forced NYRA to cancel racing at Aqueduct on Friday for the second consecutive day. The track will remain open for simulcast wagering.

Last year, trainer Scott Lake appeared to have the Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash at his mercy with Thunderello, who was coming off a terrific second-place finish in the Breeders' Cup Sprint.

Sent off the even-money favorite in the De Francis, Thunderello was pulled up after three furlongs were run over a sloppy track. The diagnosis was a fractured sesamoid and cracked splint bone, and Thunderello subsequently was retired.