FORT ERIE, Ontario - Right Stop will be out to resume his winning ways here in Monday's Puss N Boots Stakes, the first of twin $55,000 stakes scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf on the Labor Day program at Fort Erie.
The Puss N Boots is for male runners, while the Miss Moneypenny is for females. All must have had at least two starts at the present meeting.
Both events drew full fields of 12, and the Puss N Boots has an also-eligible list of four.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - It didn't take long for owner-trainer Shauna Ferguson to change her mind regarding the possible retirement of Kid Katabatic.
After the Kid, a 9-year-old gelding, finished last in the B.C. Cup Classic on Aug. 5, Ferguson planned to turn him out for the rest of the year and possibly retire him.
But Kid Katabatic has always had a mind of his own, and when he arrived at the farm of his part owners Mel and Lindsey Russell, he showed his displeasure with the idea of a life of leisure.
CINCINNATI - Like Steve Cauthen before him, John McKee is a local boy dominating the River Downs standings as a young apprentice.
The similarities don't go much farther than that, since McKee, 21, obviously has a long way to go before he attains the kind of fame and fortune that Cauthen found in his Hall of Fame career.
CINCINNATI - River Downs is considered a little racetrack, but that doesn't mean big horses never race here.
River's signature race, the Cradle Stakes, has produced horses of national significance. It happened in the mid-1980's when Spend a Buck won the Cradle before becoming a Kentucky Derby champion the following spring, and it happened last year when Harlan's Holiday won the Cradle before capturing such major races as the Florida Derby and Blue Grass Stakes.
SAN MATEO, Calif. - A rematch of Bay Meadows's race of the year in 2001 will not take place in Monday's $100,000 California Turf Championship.
The one-mile race for California-breds was expected to match millionaire Native Desert and Spinelessjellyfish, who dead-heated in the 2001 running.
Juan Garcia said Saturday that 9-year-old Native Desert, a three-time winner of the race, had injured an ankle during a Friday gallop.
"It was a little swollen," he said. "I don't want to take a chance."
Mr Ross, one of the top handicap horses in the region, will make a rare start around one turn Monday in the $30,000 Silver Bullet Centennial Stakes at Remington Park in Oklahoma City.
Mr Ross won the seven-furlong Silver Bullet Centennial last year, and with the victory improved his record around one turn to 2 for 3. His chief rivals Sunday are three sprinters who won stakes in their last starts: Medium Rare, Dance and Dazzle, and That Tat.
LAFAYETTE, La. - This year's season will end in style Monday night as a dozen 2-year-olds line up in the Lafayette Stakes.
The six-furlong Lafayette, the final leg of the Evangeline Triple Crown for Juveniles, is worth a guaranteed $50,000 and will be the 10th event of the 12-race holiday card that starts at 6:45 p.m.
BOSSIER CITY, La. - Chauffe au Rouge, who was an explosive winner of the $50,000 Retama Turf Cup in his last start, returns to his home course Monday as the 120-pound highweight in the $50,000 Barksdale Handicap at Louisiana Downs.
The 1 1/16-mile turf race for 3-year-olds and up drew a field of eight, including the winner of the Grade 3 Texas Mile, Unrullah Bull, who is coupled with Chauffe au Rouge, and Rebridled and Big Numbers, who finished second and third to Prince Iroquois last month in the $50,000 Ark-La-Tex Handicap.
DEL MAR, Calif. - Jockey Eddie Delahoussaye was hospitalized Friday evening after being injured in a spill during the sixth race at Del Mar.
Delahoussaye's mount Seeisbelieving fractured his right front cannon bone and fell passing the half-mile pole of the turf race, throwing Delahoussaye to the ground. The 3-year-old gelding, trained by Mike Machowsky, was euthanized.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Not only is Bobby Frankel a very good trainer, he's also a pretty fair handicapper, and that is why he decided to enter Aldebaran along with Squirtle Squirt in Sunday's $250,000 Forego Handicap.
With Squirtle Squirt, the lightning-fast Orientate, and California invader Explicit in the field, Frankel figures the Forego could set up for a horse from off the pace. And Aldebaran has the running style that may make him the one to beat in the 6 1/2-furlong, Grade 1 race.
