ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Reade Baker will send out three Bear Stables runners in Sunday’s Grade 1 Nearctic Stakes at six furlongs on turf, and he said Fatal Bullet, Bear No Joke, and Bear Tough Tiger all are capable of making their presence felt in the $300,000 race, which is a Win and You’re In for the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. “I’ve been pointing all three for the Nearctic,” Baker said. “I gave them all a break at the training center. Every one of them’s perfect.” Fatal Bullet, an 8-year-old gelding, is one of the few horses campaigned by Danny “Bear” Dion who does not bear his owner’s nickname. The Florida-bred, purchased at an Adena Springs sale of 2-year-olds in training, already was named at that time, and Dion believed that changing it could be bad luck. But Fatal Bullet has been a bear on the racetrack and is coming into the Nearctic with a record of 12-5-8 from 37 starts for earnings of $1,389,754. Canada’s Horse of the Year and champion sprinter at age 3, Fatal Bullet has won five stakes and competed in two editions of the Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita, finishing second in 2008 and sixth the following season.[bc_video_id:307006:] Fatal Bullet has seen action just twice this year, however, winning the six-furlong turf prep for the Grade 3 Highlander Stakes on June 15 but then running fourth when the July 7 Highlander itself was switched to the main track. “As he gets older, he really appreciates the break,” Baker said. “There have been spots for him, but we decided to go all in for the Neartic. I expect him to run the best race he’s run in a couple of years.” Bear No Joke, a 5-year-old gelding, became a stakes winner last out in the Aug. 28 Kenora, a six-furlong race for products of local yearling sales. “He’s doing well, training well,” said Baker, who had sent out Bear No Joke to land his second allowance condition over six furlongs on turf here last fall. Bear Tough Tiger, also a 5-year-old gelding, was entered for a $62,500 claiming price here Aug. 11 and was a smart winner over six furlongs on turf. “I didn’t think I’d lose him, the way he’d been running,” Baker said. “He’s as good or better than he was at this time last year.” Bear Tough Tiger was beaten a length as the third-place finisher in last year’s Nearctic and came back six weeks later to become a stakes winner in the Grade 3 Kennedy Road over six furlongs on Polytrack. Though the Nearctic is a Grade 1 race, it has not come up especially tough, and that has encouraged trainer Bob Tiller to send out his Ontario-sired 3-year-old Langstaff for his first start against older rivals. “All of his wins have been sprinting, and he won a stake going six furlongs on the turf,” Tiller said, referring to Langstaff’s win in the June 8 Bold Ruckus for owner Rolph Davis. Langstaff subsequently finished in the money in three consecutive restricted stakes, most recently finishing third in the Vice Regent over one mile on turf here Sept. 1. “I’m going to put some blinkers on him,” Tiller said. “Hopefully, they’ll help him focus a little more.” Spadina Road returns in Bull Page Tiller also will be represented in Monday’s stakes feature, with Spadina Road entered in the $125,000, six-furlong Bull Page for Ontario-sired 2-year-old colts and geldings. Spadina Road, also owned by Davis, was an impressive first-out winner of a restricted maiden race at six furlongs here July 28 and was eligible for the Aug. 28 Simcoe Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong yearling-sales stakes. But the seven-furlong Swynford, an open race that seemed to be coming up light, was set for Aug. 24, and Tiller opted for that spot, only to watch Spadina Road finish fifth in the field of seven. “That was a last-minute decision,” Tiller said. “He really missed a work, then he had a really wide trip in the middle of the racetrack. In hindsight, I shouldn’t have run him there.” Tiller, however, said he has no concerns about Spadina Road heading into the Bull Page. “He’s in good order – we’ve been pointing for this race,” Tiller said. “Hopefully, he’ll do his thing and run well.” Proroguing, an impressive first-out winner for Tiller and owner Frank Di Giulio here Sept. 22, also was nominated to the Bull Page but will not see action again this season. “He had shins, so we sent him home,” Tiller said. “We wanted to get a race into him, see what he can do. He’ll be a nice 3-year-old.”