Trainer Joan Petrowski is hoping Dougs Buddy can keep his undefeated record in sprints intact when he runs in a six-furlong allowance race for 3-year-olds and up that drew eight horses at Northlands Park on Saturday. He will be making his first start since he went unplaced in the Grade 3 British Columbia Derby at Hastings on Sept. 9.

Petrowski is happy to be back in business after a $4,000 fine and six-month suspension she received from the stewards last year for a positive test for the anesthetic lidocain was quashed by the Court of Queen’s Bench of Alberta.

AUBURN, Wash. – On a busy Saturday at Emerald Downs, a pair of allowance races will complement simulcast wagering on the Preakness Stakes as Kentucky Derby hero Orb zeroes in on the second leg of the Triple Crown. The nine-race program begins at 2 p.m. Pacific, and the Preakness runners will break from the Pimlico starting gate in Baltimore at about 3:20.

ALTOONA, Iowa – Following its simulcast of the Preakness, Prairie Meadows has slated a pair of featured six-furlong stakes sprints for Iowa-bred 3-year-olds, the $60,000 Bob Bryant for fillies and the $60,000 Gray’s Lake for colts and geldings.

Six evenly matched fillies and mares will line up for Saturday’s $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at 6 1/2 furlongs.

Spectacular Sky carries the nominal top weight of 118 pounds, giving one to four pounds to Fantasy of Flight, Glorious View, Irish Exchange, Miss d’Oro, and Withgreatpleasure.

The 63rd running of the Grade 2 Vagrancy is race 9 on a 10-race card and the third leg of a late pick four with a $300,000-guaranteed pool; post time is 5:17 p.m. Eastern.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Moonlit Beauty, winner of four stakes and almost $600,000, is by far the most accomplished member of the 12-horse field of Ontario-sired fillies and mares for Saturday’s $125,000 Ballade Stakes.

But can Moonlit Beauty shine under the circumstances, making her first start of the season at a six-furlong distance that isn’t her preferred trip?

BALTIMORE – Summer Applause bounced back from one bad effort earlier this year when she won the Grade 2 Top Flight at Aqueduct. Her connections hope she shows similar resilience in Saturday’s Grade 3, $150,000 Allaire duPont Distaff at Pimlico.

Summer Applause finished fourth in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom on April 12, a race in which trainer Chad Brown said his filly apparently “didn’t care for the surface” at Oaklawn Park.

BALTIMORE – No matter the temperature at Pimlico on Saturday, the heat is going to get turned up in the Grade 3, $150,000 Maryland Sprint Handicap, a six-furlong race loaded with early speed.

Action Andy, Manito, Warrioroftheroses, and Sage Valley all have sharp early speed, and with Action Andy and Manito drawn in posts 1 and 3, respectively, in the 10-horse field, they likely are committed to send. The potential race shape could benefit the likes of Hardened Wildcat and Candyman E, both of whom appear to be sitting on big efforts following lengthy breaks.

MIAMI – While the leaders of the local sprint division at Calder – Trinniberg, Jackson Bend, and Bahamian Squall – have the luxury of biding their time as they point towards the Grade 2 Smile on July 8, several of their contemporaries must still earn their way into the big event. Among them is Close It Out, who tops a field of 10 Smile prospects entered in Saturday’s $55,000 Champali Stakes.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Earl “Buzzy” Tenney, the longtime assistant to trainer Shug McGaughey, watched the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago from his Long Island home surrounded by family and friends.

Tenney, 61, admitted that a lot of people started “jumping around like kids” when Orb passed Normandy Invasion and splashed to a 2 1/2-length victory, giving McGaughey his long-awaited first Derby.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – It is tough to separate the eight older horses running in a $35,000 optional claimer that will serve as Saturday’s feature at Hastings. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint is the last of seven races carded, and an abundance of speed in the field could set things up nicely for Crew Leader.