SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Ken McPeek said that Friday’s $100,000 Alada Stakes at Saratoga seems like a perfect alternative for anybody seeking to avoid Royal Delta and Authenticity later this month in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign. Which is why he has chosen the 1 1/8-mile overnight stakes for Flashy American, despite the fact she comes off a career-best effort when second behind Authenticity in the Grade 3 Shuvee earlier in the meet.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Dave Forster was impressed enough by Go for Guinness’s 6 1/4-length win over Mark in the B.C. Cup Stellar’s Jay on Monday that he is planning to bring him back in just 12 days to run in the Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby on Aug. 17 at Northlands Park.

Go for Guinness finally lived up to the potential he had shown in his two previous route attempts, where he was just a bit too much on the muscle early and failed to finish the way he did in the Stellar’s Jay.

On Fire Baby is scheduled to breeze Saturday at Churchill and then once more before leaving for Saratoga to start in the Grade 1 Personal Ensign on Aug. 25.

Trainer Gary Hartlage said he is pleased with how On Fire Baby, a Grade 1 winner with $720,308 in earnings, has progressed since being hospitalized in mid-June after spiking a high fever.

“We really thought about running in the Gardenia, but this was the better option,” said Hartlage.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Joe Orseno ran into unanticipated hurdles when he entered P J’s Superego in the $55,000 allowance feature Friday at Monmouth Park.

Assuming the remaining barrier is cleared, P J’s Superego will be a major factor in the second-level optional $16,000 claimer for New Jersey-bred fillies and mares at six furlongs.

P J’s Superego is part of an entry with P J Hooker. Paco Lopez is named to ride both Orseno trainees.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Buff Bradley’s main concern with Groupie Doll is a simple one.

“Sometimes horses don’t come back the same way they left the racetrack,” said Bradley. “I just want her back with that same fire.”

Groupie Doll, the filly-mare sprint champion of 2012, will make her long-awaited return to action Saturday in the Grade 3, $100,000 Gardenia Stakes, the annual showcase race at Ellis Park in western Kentucky. Groupie Doll has not raced in more than eight months, and it has taken a lot of time and effort to get her back into racing shape.

OPELOUSAS, La. – Two of the Midwest’s higher-profile outfits are sending in raiding parties to Evangeline Downs on Saturday night with the prize being the meeting’s richest event, the $125,000 Evangeline Mile Handicap.

Steve Asmussen will be represented by starting highweight Sabercat at 118 pounds and Brethren, who was assigned 117 pounds by Evangeline racing secretary Coleman Lloyd.

Donald Roberson, a Delaware trainer who was suspended as of July 17 following a search of his barn, appeared before the Delaware Park stewards Tuesday for a hearing into the results of the search, according to Delaware officials and his legal counsel.

The stewards have yet to issue a ruling as a result of the hearing but are expected to do so by the end of the week, according to John Wayne, executive director of the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission. Wayne declined to comment on details of the hearing.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Dance for Cole, a hot horse from a live family, should be prominent Friday at Woodbine in the featured eighth race, an Ontario-sired allowance scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the grass.

Dance for Cole wintered in south Florida with trainer Katerina Vassilieva, who sent him out to finish fourth in a maiden special weight race on grass at Gulfstream on March 22. He didn’t start again until June 9, when he faltered here in another open maiden special weight route on the lawn.

Chandlers Heart will be shooting for her fifth win at the Northlands Park meet when she runs in an $8,000 claiming race that will serve as Friday’s feature. The one-mile race for fillies and mares drew eight horses and goes as the seventh race.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – Jeranimo might be the best-known horse in trainer Mike Pender’s barn, but it would be hard to top Tasty Treat as the most courageous. Tasty Treat, a 4-year-old filly, has worked her way back to the races after being seriously injured earlier this year. When she won an allowance race at Del Mar on July 18, “there were tears flowing,” Pender said.