OCEANPORT, N.J. – Breeders’ Cup Turf winner Little Mike is on target for the Grade 1, $500,000 United Nations Stakes, the premier turf event at Monmouth Park on July 6.

The upcoming holiday week on the Jersey Shore is loaded with stakes, with the U.N. the main attraction.

It starts with a holiday card on Thursday featuring the Grade 3, $100,000 Jersey Shore Stakes for 3-year-olds at six furlongs.

Stakes coordinator Dan Dufford lists Rainbow Heir, Hippster, Res Judicata, and Uptown Boy among the probable Jersey Shore runners.

AUBURN, Wash. – Rocky’s Quest, whose bid to join the stakes ranks ended with a resounding defeat in the Budweiser Handicap in his previous start, will return to his comfort zone Sunday when he headlines a second-level allowance/optional claimer for older horses at one mile. With no stakes race at Emerald Downs, it will serve as the featured eighth race on a nine-race card that begins at 2 p.m. Pacific.

It’s not a New York Showcase Day, but it will feel like one on a Sunday program at Belmont Park that is sprinkled with six statebred races, including three $100,000 stakes to be contested at seven furlongs.

Heading the stakes tripleheader is the Shy Groom, an overnight event that marks the seasonal debut of Saratoga Snacks, whose only loss in five starts last year was a runner-up finish in the Empire Classic.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer John Snow is looking for a good effort from Daydream and Havasu Falls in the $50,000 Supernaturel Handicap at Hastings on Monday. The 1 1/16-mile Supernaturel is one of four stakes on the 10-race Canada Day card.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Saturday Nite Ride will appreciate the substantially easier company she will be facing when she runs in a first-level allowance race for fillies and mares that will serve as Sunday’s feature at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint drew five horses and goes as race 2 on the nine-race card that begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario—Things have not gone smoothly of late for either Original Script or Strut the Course, but the connections of the two hope they are at their best in Sunday’s $250,000 Bison City Stakes at Woodbine.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Gladding starts in a second-level optional $62,500 claimer at Betfair Hollywood Park on Sunday, the sort of race that best suits the two-time stakes winner this year. That is the opinion of his trainer Vann Belvoir, who claimed Gladding at Santa Anita in January.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Eclipse Award-winning trainer Dale Romans will show his support for summer racing at Gulfstream Park by sending in a shipment of horses to stable at the track within the next week.

Romans said he needs time to go over the condition book and work out the logistics of stabling horses in south Florida for the first time during the summer before he puts any horses on a van.

Tampa Bay Downs in Oldsmar, Fla., will run an unprecedented mid-summer card on Sunday to qualify as a year-round live racetrack under the state’s statutes, allowing the track to import simulcast signals without paying another Florida racetrack for the rights.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Successful Song parlayed a win last year in Monmouth Park’s Lighthouse Stakes into a fast-closing second in the meet’s premier race for fillies and mares, the Grade 2 Molly Pitcher.

Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. hopes Successful Song can repeat that pattern, starting on Sunday in the $75,000 Lighthouse, a solidly competitive race at 1 1/16 miles.

The Lighthouse marks the comeback of Cash for Clunkers, on the shelf since last September after a pair of blowout losses to division champion Royal Delta.