Ready Racer appears to be rounding into the form that saw him win the $50,000 Sun Sprint Championship last year and ultimately be named the 2012 sprinter of the year in Alberta. He was a sharp winner of a $25,000 claiming race July 5 and figures to be a solid favorite when he runs in an optional $35,000 claiming race that will serve as Monday’s feature at Northlands Park.

The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew seven horses and goes as race 7 on an eight race card that begins at 1 p.m. Mountain.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Wilo Kat will be a short price when he shoots for his first stakes win in the $75,000 B.C. Cup Classic at Hastings on Monday. The 1 1/8-mile Classic for 3-year-olds and up drew nine horses and headlines a strong card that features full and competitive fields in each of the six stakes races restricted to British Columbia-breds.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Lost in the hoopla surrounding the July 7 Queen’s Plate was a sharp-looking allowance score by Phil’s Dream, who makes his stakes debut Monday at Woodbine in the 6 1/2-furlong Shepperton.

The Shepperton is one of two $125,000 Ontario-sired stakes on the civic holiday card, along with the Eternal Search, a 1 1/16-mile route for 3-year-old fillies.

While the Manitoba Derby will be the main course at Assiniboia Downs on Monday, a trio of other stakes races will be tantalizing appetizers on the eight-race program.

First up will be the $30,000 R.J. Speers, a 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds and upward that goes as the third race and features a rematch between Pleasant Closing and Gotatigerbythetail.

The $30,000 Graduation, a 5  1/2-furlong race for 2-year-olds, goes as race 4, and the field of eight includes six last-out winners.

DEL MAR, Calif. - The pick six proved impossible to solve for the second consecutive day at Del Mar on Friday, leading to a massive carryover of $619,482 for Saturday’s 10-race program.

Here is a glance at the scratch time changes from Friday for Saturday’s program.

The pick six begins in the fifth race, which will go off at approximately 4 p.m. Pacific. The race is a one-mile optional claimer on the main track, which features the United States debut of Holding Glory, a Group 1 winner in Brazil earlier this year.

DEL MAR, Calif. - From his vantage point behind the leaders aboard U’narack in Friday’s $200,000 Real Good Deal Stakes at Del Mar, jockey Julien Leparoux liked his position with a quarter-mile remaining.

“I knew they weren’t going to stop,” he said. “I was confident.”

From his vantage point in the grandstand watching U’narack, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer was growing increasingly nervous with a quarter-mile remaining.

“I was not confident,” Hollendorfer said. “I was hoping he wouldn’t get caught in there. He kind of looked like he had a lot of horse.”

DEL MAR, Calif. - Jockey Garrett Gomez, who has not ridden since July 14 after undergoing recent treatment for alcoholism, was given conditional approval to resume riding at Del Mar on Wednesday, pending the results of a urine test this weekend, track stewards said on Friday.

Gomez participated in a 90-minute hearing with stewards Scott Chaney, Kim Sawyer and Tom Ward on Friday, to discuss his absence on the opening days of the current meeting, which began on July 17.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Delaunay lost his air of invincibility when he was upset by Gentlemen's Bet in the Iowa Sprint Handicap. He will try to get it back, and a little measure of revenge in the process, when he takes on Gentlemen's Bet and three other rivals in Sunday's $400,000 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Handicap at Saratoga. The Grade 1 fixture will be contested at six furlongs.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. _ Based on pedigree and a couple of “phenomenal” workouts on the Oklahoma grass course, trainer Dale Romans was confident Silverette would be able to make the switch from dirt to turf in Friday’s $100,000 Caress Stakes at Saratoga.

Did she ever.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – When George Weaver decided at the last minute to run Lighthouse Bay in the Grade 1 Prioress Stakes here on July 27, he had many riders from which to choose.

He selected Joe Rocco Jr.

“I was looking at what I had available; I was like, this is going to be a great fit,” said Weaver, who had been impressed with Rocco this winter at Gulfstream. “I was really happy about it. Sometimes you ride jockeys and you don’t always get the jockey you want. I didn’t feel like I was taking a backseat at all. I was extremely confident that he could get it done.”