Seven stakes share the card with the Classic on Maryland Million Day at Pimlico Saturday.

The $100,000 Ladies, a 1 1/8-mile turf race, has some intrigue as it has attracted Obeah winner Your Out, who has never raced on the grass. In July, Your Out came within a neck of beating Summer Colony, the top older filly or mare on the East Coast, in the Grade 3 Delaware Handicap.

Graham Motion, who trains Your Out, a daughter of Allen's Prospect, said he would be delighted if the race was rained off the turf but he would run her either way.

POMONA, Calif. - Buy a horse for $50,000; start her as the the favorite in a $100,000 stakes. Sounds easy.

Ionia, a $50,000 purchase at the Barretts March sale of 2-year-olds-in-training, is the one to catch Saturday at Fairplex Park in the $100,000 Barretts Debutante.

"She'll be the speed of the speed," predicts her trainer, Chris Paasch.

A field of 10 and one also-eligible, entered the 6 1/2-furlong stakes, restricted to 2-year-old fillies who were offered for sale at Barretts. Besides Ionia, contenders include improving maidens Last Kiss and Leniently.

MIAMI - For Florida Stallion Stakes contenders such as Ivanavinalot, Heavenly Miss, and Trust N Luck, Saturday's $100,000 Brave Raj and $100,000 Foolish Pleasure Stakes will offer an opportunity to stretch out around two turns for the first time while prepping for the rich finales of the Stallion Series Oct. 12.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Trainer Paul Nielsen was puzzled when Le Cinquieme Essai finished last in the Grade 3 Col. R.S. McLaughlin Handicap last Saturday at Woodbine.

The problem, he discovered moments after the race, was that the horse's tongue was trapped over the bit. A figure-eight nose band didn't allow the mouth to open and breathing was difficult. Jockey Brian Bochinski, sensing trouble, didn't punish his mount.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - There is bound to be trouble when 12 3-year-olds get together Saturday at Hastings in the $200,000 Grade 2, 1 1/8-mile British Columbia Derby.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - How much the home course advantage means could determine the outcome of Saturday's Grade 3, $200,000 Bay Meadows Breeders' Cup Handicap.

The 1 1/8-mile turf race, the premier event of the fall meeting, drew only five horses.

Unlike the four-horse field in the San Francisco Breeders' Cup Mile last spring, which included Sarafan and Decarchy, who were then the two of the highest-rated turf runners in the country, Saturday's race includes only one graded-stakes winner, David Copperfield, winner of the Grade 3 Cinema Handicap at Hollywood Park in 2000.

EDMONTON, Alberta - In addition to the featured Red Diamond Express, there are a number of other interesting races on Saturday's Alberta Fall Classic program at Northlands Park.

In the $40,000 Beaufort, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds, two horses coming out of the Canadian Derby are likely to be the favorites.

The Beaufort will be the first start for Go Go Tommy Joe since the Aug. 24 Derby, where he finished 16 1/2 lengths behind Lady Shari, and trainer Sid Gray is expecting him to return to the form that saw bettors make him one of the favorites that day.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - After arriving from Woodbine by van late Wednesday afternoon, Macho Uno spent Thursday morning getting acquainted with his temporary lodgings on Arlington Park's backstretch. Macho Uno, who breezed Monday at Woodbine, was scheduled to get his first feel for the Arlington racing surface Friday, but his status for the Sept. 29 Washington Park Handicap will not be determined until after he breezes early next week.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Bedanken, a three-time stakes winner on dirt, makes her first start over the surface for which she was bred - turf - in the $50,000 Marie P. DeBartolo Oaks Handicap at Louisiana Downs on Saturday.

The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies tops the Super Derby undercard, and drew a field of 11, including local favorite Sheza Nasty Lady.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - All trainer Niall O'Callaghan wants for the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs on Saturday is a fast track.

He will send out the talented but lightly raced A.P. Five Hundred, who has caught muddy tracks in his last two starts, finishing third in both the $100,000 Round Table at Arlington and the Grade 3, $300,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington.