OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer George Weaver is looking forward to getting Zuby on turf in Sunday’s $150,000 Awad Stakes for 2-year-olds at Aqueduct. However, if forecasted rain showers force the race to the dirt, Weaver will be equally as happy to run the 2-year-old daughter of Vekoma against the boys in this six-furlong race.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Although she has won twice as often and earned twice as much, Grand Slam Smile has a score to settle with her nemesis Sneaker on Sunday at Del Mar.

Seven fillies and mares bred in California are entered the $100,000 Betty Grable Stakes, which is basically a rubber match between two who composed the exacta in recent stakes on turf. Sneaker upset Grand Slam Smile last out in a sprint; Grand Slam Smile beat Sneaker two back in a route.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Multiple stakes winner War Bomber continues along the comeback trail in Sunday’s Woodbine headliner. He seems ready to fire one of his better shots in the seven-furlong conditioned allowance, which has a $50,000 claiming option.

Trainer Norm McKnight claimed War Bomber for a bargain $25,000 on behalf of owner Bruno Schickedanz on Aug. 21, 2021. Three weeks later, the son of War Front beat 3-year-olds in the Toronto Cup on the grass. That was the first of three stakes scores, along with the Grade 3 Seagram Cup in 2022 and the Grade 2 King Edward in 2023.

There’s no pause button on the racing calendar. The 2025 season purportedly crescendoed into the Breeders’ Cup, but here we are, back at it again a week later. No races to decide champions on this Saturday, but the win money pays the same.

Mother Goose

As George W. Bush once intoned, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again.” While the 43rd president of the United States of America could not quite get to “fool me twice,” the filly Ourdaydreaminggirl stands poised to fool the betting public a third time in the Mother Goose.

Touchuponastar will be looking to nail down the 15th stakes win of his career Saturday night, when the top-class Louisiana-bred meets open company in the $100,000 Delta Downs Mile.

The race for 3-year-olds and up shares a card with the $100,000 Treasure Chest.

Touchuponastar is part of a field of seven that includes fellow stakes winners Cajun Mitole, Blue Devil, The Donegal Clan, and Highland Creek. The Delta Mile is slotted as the sixth race, with a scheduled post of 7:04 p.m. Central.

Coming off a fifth-place finish in the Grade 3 Matron at Aqueduct, Just Philtored will return to the Mid-Atlantic region for another stiff test in the $100,000 Smart Halo Stakes on Saturday at Laurel Park. The versatile juvenile filly will switch back to dirt after two stakes tries on turf for trainer Mike Trombetta.