Seven $50,000-added stakes will highlight the Sonoma County Fair’s 13-day racing meet beginning Friday in Santa Rosa, Calif.

The return of wine-country racing also means the return of turf racing in Northern California, with Santa Rosa hosting the only turf racing during the fair racing season. Five of the meet’s seven stakes are carded for turf, including two during opening weekend, the Wine Country Stakes for 3-year-old fillies and the Luther Burbank Handicap for fillies and mares. Both will be run at 1 1/16 miles.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The 2-year-old fillies Luminance and Tara’s Tango avoided one another Sunday, when they ended up in divisions of maiden races for their debuts, but they are on a collision course now for the Grade 1, $300,000 Del Mar Debutante on Aug. 30 following their impressive victories.

Luminance (57.39 seconds) ran her five furlongs a tick faster than Tara’s Tango (57.40 seconds), which left Luminance with the track record at day’s end; Tara’s Tango, who ran earlier in the day, held it for about two hours.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Florida invader R Free Roll sizzled four furlongs in 45.94 shortly after the renovation break over the main track on Tuesday in preparation for the Grade 2 Honorable Miss Stakes here next Monday.

R Free Roll is coming off back-to-back stakes wins at Calder and Gulfstream Park for owner Richard Averill. She had been stabled with trainer Kirk Ziadie in Florida, but resides with trainer Dan Gargan while at Saratoga.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint winner, Secret Circle, hasn’t been seen since the spring, but he is back in training at Los Alamitos, and trainer Bob Baffert said a defense of his Sprint title is the goal.

Secret Circle has raced just once since last year’s Breeders’ Cup Sprint; he was second in the Palos Verdes Stakes at Santa Anita in February. He was scheduled to run in the Count Fleet Stakes in April at Oaklawn Park but had to be withdrawn after mistakenly being tranquilized for his flight there just days before the race.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Led by Goldencents, an outstanding field of sprinters is set to contest the Grade 1, $300,000 Bing Crosby Stakes on Sunday at Del Mar.

Goldencents, who won the Santa Anita Derby and Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile during an outstanding campaign at age 3 last year, comes off a terrific runner-up effort behind Palace Malice in the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park in his 2014 debut June 7. Rafael Bejarano, who rode him in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile but missed the Met Mile because of injury, is back aboard.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – From Toronto to Cleveland to Chicago to San Diego it was weekend to remember for Arlington-based trainer Mike Stidham.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The potential pace and prospective lineup for the Grade 2, $200,000 San Diego Handicap on Saturday at Del Mar changed significantly Tuesday morning when the connections of Fury Kapcori, the likely pacesetter and potential favorite, decided to bypass the race.

In his absence, the Jerry Hollendorfer barn decided to run Summer Hit, a synthetic-track specialist. Rafael Bejarano, who was scheduled to ride Fury Kapcori, will ride Summer Hit.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – My Miss Aurelia exited her third-place finish in Monday’s Shine Again Stakes none the worse for wear despite a pretty good bumping match nearing midstretch with runner-up Grace Hall, and she could make her next start later in the meet either in the Personal Ensign or Ballerina.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The opening weekend of the Saratoga session was a good one for trainer Bill Mott, and it was a disastrous trip away from being a great one when Grace Hall was narrowly defeated by Better Lucky after getting knocked sideways at midstretch in Monday’s Shine Again Stakes.

Gulfstream is trying to keep bettors interested in its Rainbow Six wager by seeding it with guaranteed money every time the jackpot is swept by one winner. Toward that end, a $50,000 pool guarantee will be in effect when another four-day race week commences Thursday. The pool was emptied Saturday when one winner cashed for $149,050.

The Thursday sequence runs from races 4 through 9. First post is 1:15 p.m. Eastern, with the fourth race, a second-level optional claimer that serves as the nominal feature, set for 2:49.