ARCADIA, Calif. - Oscar Party, purchased for $510,000 at the paddock sale at Del Mar in July, will start in the $100,000 Autumn Miss Stakes for 3-year-olds fillies over a mile on turf Saturday.

Owned by Deron Pearson, Oscar Party has started twice since the sale, finishing fifth in the Sandy Blue Handicap at Del Mar and second in the Grade 2 Indiana Oaks at Indiana Downs on Oct. 5.

“I’ve not seen her better since I’ve got her,” trainer Jim Cassidy said.

Cassidy dismissed the loss at Del Mar, saying that Oscar Party “was too far back” after a slow start.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Quiet Force was an unlucky fourth in an optional claimer at Santa Anita on Sept. 29, stuck in traffic in the stretch before losing by two lengths to Tom’s Tribute.

Nearly a month later, the performance looks better. Tom’s Tribute returned to win the Uniformity Stakes on the hillside turf course last Sunday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Joshua Tree, who has sandwiched a pair of Canadian International wins around a second-place finish in the 2011 edition, checked in late Monday evening for another go-around in the Grade 1, $1 million turf race.

The Canadian International, at 1 1/2 miles, will share the spotlight Sunday with the Grade 1, $500,000 E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile turf stakes for fillies and mares.

“He’s an old hand at this job,” said Andrew Stringer, traveling head lad for Joshua Tree’s trainer, Ed Dunlop. “He’s in good form; he traveled well.”

A Toast to You has seen the last of claiming races for the foreseeable future, following his upset win in the California Flag Handicap on the hillside turf course last Saturday.

Trainer Peter Miller said after the race that he and owners Gary and Cecil Barber had debated whether to run A Toast to You in a $25,000 claimer or the California Flag. They opted for the stakes, which gave A Toast to You his first stakes win in an 18-1 upset.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Game On Dude and Beholder, two of the leading California-based hopes for the Breeders’ Cup, both turned in strong works for their respective races on Tuesday morning at Santa Anita.

Game On Dude, expected to be the favorite in the Classic on Nov. 2, was given an official time of 1:11.40 for six furlongs after working in company for trainer Bob Baffert.

Beholder, part of an expected small but stellar cast for the Distaff on Nov. 1, was timed in 1:24.40 for seven furlongs in a team drill that left her trainer, Richard Mandella, almost giddy.

Alsvid, who was second to the Breeders’ Cup-bound Wine Police in last month’s Remington Park Sprint Cup, is being considered for the $250,000 Fabulous Strike at Penn National, said his trainer, Chris Hartman. The six-furlong race is Nov. 27.

Alsvid is a multiple stakes winner of more than $500,000. He was the 3-5 favorite in the Remington Sprint on the strength of recent scores in the $100,000 Premiere Cup at Zia Park and an optional $35,000 claimer at Prairie Meadows for which he earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 109.

Frank Lucarelli couldn’t have asked for a better start to the Golden Gate Fields meet. On Saturday, he won the Miss America on the turf with Stormy Lucy. On Sunday, he sent out Gallant Son for the first time since a third-place finish in the Grade 3 San Francisco Mile on April 27 and saw him win a six-furlong prep for the Nov. 16 Oakland Stakes.

Gallant Son, whose victory in the six-furlong Albany last February was his first main-track stakes win since the 2010 Grade 3 Inglewood, edged favored Moonshine Bay and Administer in a three-way photo Sunday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The first stakes of the 25-day Churchill fall meet, which starts Sunday, figures to be a good one. It’s the Grade 2, $150,000 Chilukki, a one-turn mile for which such top fillies as Pure Fun, Sky Girl, and Wine Princess are being pointed.