ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Perfect Soul is ready to roll.

Perfect Soul, coming off a closing third-place finish in the Atto Mile at Woodbine on Sept. 14, worked four furlongs in 49.40 seconds on a yielding training track turf course Tuesday in preparation for the $600,000 Shadwell Turf Mile, the Grade 1 feature at Keeneland Saturday.

With exercise rider Paul O'Sullivan in the irons and trainer Roger Attfield keeping a close eye on the work, Perfect Soul was clocked in fractions of 12.20, 24.60, and 37.40, and galloped out five furlongs in 1:06.60.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Dynever has joined the lineup for the Grade 2, $400,000 Meadowlands Cup.

Entries were scheduled to be drawn Wednesday for the showcase event of the meet, slated for Friday night.

Dynever enters a field that includes Breeders' Cup Classic winner Volponi, Bowman's Band, Jersey Giant, and Regal Sanction. Northern Rock and Saarland were still possibilities on Tuesday.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - The three-day opening of the fall meet will draw tens of thousands of fans to Keeneland Race Course this weekend, but no one will blame racegoers if their thoughts occasionally turn to closing day.

The 17-day Keeneland meet ends Oct. 25, which happens to be the same day as the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships at Santa Anita - and no fewer than six races on Keeneland's opening weekend serve as potential stepping-stones for the Breeders' Cup.

ARCADIA, Calif. - After a whirlwind roundtrip from London to New York last weekend, Will Farish, the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, was back at his job on Monday morning, but he was still savoring the victory of his colt Mineshaft in the Jockey Club Gold Cup, and struggling over what to do next.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Silver Wagon, the impressive winner of the Grade 1 Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga in August, is sick and will not make the trip from Florida for Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park.

Monday, Silver Wagon worked five furlongs in 1:02.60 over a sloppy Calder main track. Afterward, an endoscopic examination showed the presence of mucus in Silver Wagon's trachea, trainer Ralph Ziadie said.

CHICAGO - Zosima, who won the Arlington-Washington Lassie on Saturday, was headed to California on Monday. Whether she will race there Oct. 25 in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies remains to be seen, but Everyday Angel, who finished second in the Lassie, is being pointed to the race, her trainer, Pat Byrne, said from Kentucky.

ELMONT, N.Y. - After competing in seven consecutive stakes races, Quick Tip takes a slight drop in class Wednesday when she meets six rivals in a $58,000 classified allowance race scheduled for nine furlongs over the Belmont Park inner turf course.

Wednesday's card, which marks the halfway point of Belmont's scheduled 38-day fall meet, includes a pick six carryover of $57,840.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Prep races for the Breeders' Cup are not the only important races in the first week of the Oak Tree meeting at Santa Anita.

On Wednesday, two $75,000 races - the Cavonnier Stakes and Cover Gal Stakes - are important preps to the California Cup program on Nov. 8. Both races are for 2-year-old California-breds at seven furlongs.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Blonde Executive, one of Woodbine's fastest 2-year-olds, will make her much-anticipated stakes debut Wednesday in the $130,750 Victorian Queen, a six-furlong race for Ontario-sired fillies.

Blonde Executive, an easy winner of her last two starts, showed promise as soon as she went into training last winter, according to trainer Radlie Loney.

EDMONTON, Alberta - After a spectacular 2-year-old season in which he won 4 of 5 starts, Taiaslew arrived in Calgary for the 2003 spring Thoroughbred meet as the unquestioned favorite to win the $150,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park in August.

The first major target on trainer Greg Tracy's agenda was the $100,000 Alberta Derby at Stampede Park in June. Taiaslew destroyed that field by 7 1/2 lengths.

Tracy then shipped the Washington-bred Taiaslew to Assiniboia Downs to prepare for the $100,000 Manitoba Derby in early August.