ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Owner-trainer Paul Buttigieg has cooled off since enjoying an exceptional first half of the Woodbine meet, but Love in Egbert could end his slide Wednesday in the featured sixth race, a 6 1/2-furlong Ontario-sired allowance.

Love in Egbert finished second in her first three outings, and in her fourth race she was placed second through disqualification in May. She finally graduated in a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special June 9, and then doubled up in a seven-furlong allowance June 27.

Three-year-old fillies get the holiday stakes party started in Wednesday’s $80,000 Stardusk, an overnight event scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on turf. The Stardusk is race 4, and begins the pick six at 1:47 p.m. Eastern.

Pianist, fourth as the 9-10 favorite in a division of Keeneland’s Valley View last month, may be odds-on again for trainer Chad Brown, who looks to add to his leading total of 55 grass wins in New York this year.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trainer Kelly Breen returned to south Florida before either of his horses who ran Saturday at Delta Downs – Bern Identity, who ran second in the Delta Jackpot, and Pants On Fire, who finished sixth as the 3-5 favorite in the Delta Mile. Both of them were still on the road to Palm Meadows on Monday morning.

Three other stakes support the $200,000 Fabulous Strike on Wednesday night at Penn National, and they make up the first three legs of an all-stakes pick four that ends with the feature race.

The pick four kicks off with the $75,000 Blue Mountain for 2-year-old Pennsylvania-bred fillies, and is followed by the $100,000 Swatara for older horses going 1 1/16 miles, and the $100,000 Daylily for female sprinters.

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Afleeting Lady will try to give Dale Romans his 19th graded stakes victory of the year while making for a memorable Thanksgiving holiday when she starts as a major contender Thursday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Falls City Handicap at Churchill Downs.

Afleeting Lady is in peak form, having won the first two stakes of her 19-race career coming into the Falls City: the Sept. 3 Lady’s Secret at Monmouth Park, and the Grade 3 Turnback the Alarm on Oct. 27 at Belmont Park.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The turn of the calendar from 2011 to 2012 brought misfortune to a filly named Applauding. A phenom from her very first start last fall, when she broke the Polytrack record for 6 1/2 furlongs at Keeneland, Applauding has gone unraced all year after suffering from what trainer Al Stall Jr. described as a “systemic” illness.

A millionaire sprinter who has raced exclusively on turf this season, a Grade 1 winner who disliked the sandy surface at Santa Anita when shipped west for the Breeders’ Cup, and a 3-year-old who barely missed winning a $350,000 stakes while facing older horses for the first time are part of an intriguing lineup for Penn National’s pre-Thanksgiving feature on Wednesday night.

The $200,000 Fabulous Strike Handicap at six furlongs, the last and richest of four stakes on a holiday eve card, attracted Ben’s Cat, Poseidon’s Warrior, and Il Villano.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Nipissing was 3 for 3, all under her regular rider Steven Bahen, and her four opponents looked to be in deep water here in Sunday’s $125,000 South Ocean, a 1 1/16-mile stakes for Ontario-sired 2-year-old fillies.

“I think she was much the best on paper,” said Rachel Halden, who conditions the homebred Nipissing for the Chiefswood Stable of Robert and Mark Krembil. “Steve and I discussed it, and decided he just should ride her like she was the best horse and stay out of trouble. That’s what he did.”

Calypsonoted, a 2-year-old filly bred, owned and trained by Eric Jensen, captured the $25,000 Don Jackson Futurity, the headline event at Oregon Championship Day for statebreds at Portland Meadows on Sunday, after a stretch-long duel with pacesetting Captainnotsosober.

The filly ran against males in the one-mile race only because the day's scheduled race for 2-year-old fillies, the Debutante, did not fill.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. -  Going for a Spin closed with a wide rally to win her second stakes of 2012 in Sunday’s $78,200 Cat’s Cradle Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park.

Ridden by Rafael Bejarano, Going for a Spin swept past deep stretch leader Cayanna in the final furlong to win by 3 3/4 lengths, finishing 7 1/2 furlongs in 1:31.62.

Cayanna finished 1 1/4 lengths in front of Willa B Awesome, the winner of the Grade 1 Santa Anita Oaks in March. Sparking Style, the 4-5 favorite, finished sixth in a field of seven California-bred fillies and mares.