There are four stakes winners entered in Monday’s $50,000 Rolling Green Stakes at Golden Gate Fields, but even the two non-stakes winners merit consideration as value plays.

Eagle Screams, a 4-year-old making his stakes debut, will undoubtedly be the longest shot in the six-horse field even though he’s coming off a game victory in a first-level optional claimer at Santa Rosa. He’s 2 for 5 on turf, but 0 for 3 locally.

Trainer Gil Matos said the short field and the lack of other races locally until October prompted his decision.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Aotearoa is the only undefeated runner among the eight starters in Monday’s $150,000 I’m Smokin Stakes for California-bred 2-year-olds at Del Mar.

“Let’s hope he stays that way,” trainer Leonard Powell said Saturday morning.

Nothing has come easy this year for Uncaptured. The 2012 Horse of the Year in Canada lost four straight races to start his 3-year-old campaign, and after defeating Ontario-breds in the Prince of Wales Stakes, Uncaptured will be sternly tested again Monday as one of the logical favorites in the $350,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Parx Racing in suburban Philadelphia.

When Tim Glyshaw was trying to go out on his own as a Thoroughbred trainer in 2004, he caught a break when a racing writer and chart-caller named Cliff Guilliams recommended Glyshaw to horse owners he knew.

“It was my first horse,” said Glyshaw, who until that point had worked for years as an assistant to Bob Holthus. “It didn’t matter that I could outrun the horse. I was in the game because of Cliff.”

Golden Stripe, entering off an easy win in the one-mile Distaff for Manitoba-breds, will be looking to come right back when she faces six other fillies and mares in the 1 1/8-mile Matron at Assiniboia Downs on Monday.

A win or a second-place finish in the $50,000 Matron would push Golden Stripe past $300,000 in career earnings for her owner/breeder Phil Kives.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The connections of Travers second-place finisher Moreno filed a complaint Friday with the New York State Gaming Commission alleging that Luis Saez, the rider of Travers winner Will Take Charge, used an electrical device on his horse during the running of the race.

Will Take Charge got up in the final jump of the Travers to beat Moreno by a nose.

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Race 2
1 1/16 Miles (Turf)
Maiden Special Weight
2-year-old fillies
Purse $85,000

A dozen years ago, trainer M. Anthony Ferraro and his client Langpap Stables had a New York-bred 2-year-old filly who began her career at Saratoga and successfully challenged males in the six-furlong Aspirant at Finger Lakes. On Monday, Ferraro and Langpap Stables will try to duplicate what the filly Shesastonecoldfox did in 2001 when they send out her 2-year-old son Fox Rox in the $120,925 Aspirant for New York-bred colts and geldings.

Eight 2-year-old fillies, all stretching out around two turns for the first time, will run a mile on the main track in Monday’s $50,000 Irish Sonnet Stakes at Delaware Park.

Southwest Lady, part of a coupled entry for trainer Ricky Griffith, is the lone two-time winner in the field. She most recently scored by 2 1/2 lengths over a sloppy track on Aug. 22.

Rudy’s Edge took quick command of the $50,000 Ricks Memorial at Remington Park on Friday night and never looked back for a length and a half win over favorite Satin Gold. It was another two lengths back in third to Bluegrass Sapphire.

Rudy’s Edge ($34.20) moved to the lead at the start of the one-mile turf race for fillies and mares, and raced clear through fractions of 23.76 for the opening quarter, 47.67 for the half-mile and 1:11.76 for six furlongs. She rebuffed challengers in the stretch, then sprinted home to cover the distance on firm ground in 1:35.12.