ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Patches O’Houlihan is the marquee horse in Sunday’s $100,000 Overskate Stakes, but Woodbine’s top sprinter will only run if the race is moved from the turf to Tapeta, according to trainer Robert Tiller.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla.– It didn’t take very long for the decision to push the Florida Sire Series back on the calendar for the first time to reap big dividends, with both the $200,000 Affirmed and Susan’s Girl divisions drawing full 12-horse fields while anchoring an outstanding 11-race program Saturday at Gulfstream Park.

The card also includes the $100,000 Gil Campbell Memorial Handicap and a mandatory payout in the Rainbow 6.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Trainer Bill Mott sent six of his prospective seven Breeders’ Cup horses out for workouts Thursday morning over the Oklahoma training track at Saratoga.

Elite Power, the defending Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner and reigning sprint champion, worked five furlongs in 1:01.40 going in company with BC Mile contender Casa Creed, who was timed in 1:01.80.

According to Mott, Casa Creed started a couple of lengths in front of Elite Power and the pair finished together.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Dean Delivers, idle since a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga nearly three months earlier, will go postward the starting highweight and likely favorite against nine rivals in Saturday’s $100,000 Gil Campbell Memorial Handicap at Gulfstream Park.

The Brad Cox barn will be hoping Verifying runs better Saturday in the Perryville Stakes than his recent work partner Punchbowl ran Wednesday in a Keeneland allowance race.

Punchbowl, making her first start since finishing second in the Ashland Stakes, was fourth at odds of 1-2, and Verifying is an even-money shot on the morning line for the $250,000 Perryville Stakes.

Mine That Star will be taking on a couple of Southern California shippers Saturday night, when he starts as the 124-pound highweight in the $200,000 Downs at Albuquerque Handicap.

Bye Bye Bobby is weighted at 123 after racing at Santa Anita, while Arham is set to carry 121 pounds following a stakes win at Los Alamitos.

The Downs at Albuquerque Handicap is the richest offering for Thoroughbreds at the meet, and it will go as the fifth race. It is for 3-year-olds and up over 1 1/8 miles. The race drew six, including a shipper from Oklahoma in Presidential.

At age 10, Seddon is having a career-best year over fences and hurdles.

Wins at two of the toughest meetings for European jumpers – Cheltenham in Britain in March and Punchestown in Ireland a month later – have been the highlights of the season.

By mid-summer, trainer John McConnell announced a lucrative goal for Seddon in the autumn – Saturday’s Grade 1 Grand National Hurdle at picturesque Far Hills Racecourse in New Jersey.

In recent months, Seddon has had two prep races in advance of the $250,000 Grand National at 2 5/8 miles.

Nothin Like You will attempt to nail down his first win at the classic Quarter Horse distance of 440 yards on Saturday night when he starts as the possible favorite in the Grade 1, $250,000 Bank of America Challenge Championship at Lone Star Park.

The race for 3-year-olds and up is the richest of five graded Challenge Championship stakes on a 12-race card that starts at 6:05 p.m. Central. The races will be simulcast to sites around the country and to international markets.

Horizon Dore, a French 3-year-old who never has raced at the Group 1 level, on Thursday was the antepost favorite for Saturday’s Group 1, $1.2 million Champion Stakes at Ascot.

One reason the Breeders’ Cup has made Southern California the anchor of its late-season racing festival is weather. Warm air, fast dirt, firm turf – proper conditions for top-class racing. You won’t find Southern California weather in England during mid-October, and conditions for Champions Day, England’s late-season racing festival Saturday at Ascot, will be messy.

Rain already had turned the course soft Thursday and with Storm Babet bringing more intense rainfall Friday into Saturday, soft could become heavy.