The 5-year-old mare Down Town Allen and 3-year-old filly Rita Haywood, both coming off stakes wins on last month’s West Virginia Breeders’ Classic program, will test their stamina in Saturday night’s $50,000 My Sister Pearl Stakes at Charles Town.

The 1 1/8-mile My Sister Pearl, for West Virginia-breds, is part of a stakes tripleheader. The co-features are divisions of the Tri-State Futurity, one for fillies and the other for colts and geldings. Each division of the Futurity, which is open to West Virginia- and Maryland-breds drew eight 2-year-olds and will be worth $50,000.

Anytime Magic, winner of stakes in his first two starts, and Epic Electorate, running in a stakes for the first time, are at career crossroads heading into Saturday’s $50,000 Golden Nugget Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.

MIAMI – After winning three straight stakes against open company, including the Grade 3 Spend a Buck Handicap in his last start, Cash Rules has found what figures to be a cushier spot against statebreds in Saturday’s $150,000 Carl G. Rose Handicap at Calder.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Does anybody really want to win the $250,000 Coronation Futurity? Sure, the money’s good, but the nine-furlong route for Canadian-bred 2-year-olds hasn’t produced a high-class winner since A Bit O’Gold in 2003. And the last horse to capture the Coronation along the following year’s Queen’s Plate was Norcliffe in 1975-76.

If Mother Nature cooperates – and that’s a big “if” these days – nine fillies and mares will clash in Saturday’s $150,000 Long Island Handicap, scheduled for 1 1/2 miles on turf.

The 56th running of the Grade 3 Long Island is the last graded turf stakes of the year in New York. It is the eighth of nine races and part of a late pick four with a $250,000 guaranteed pool.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Maritimer, who was Canada’s champion male 2-year-old of 2011, returns as an unknown quantity for Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Autumn Stakes at 1 1/16 miles.

Bred in Ontario by Howard Walton, Maritimer had been sold privately following the conclusion of his first campaign, capped by an emphatic victory here in the 1 1/16-mile Display that yielded a Beyer Speed Figure of 91.

Amerigo Vespucci, unbeaten in two starts, may have to run much faster than he has so far in order to outperform impressive debut winner Whiskey Romeo in Saturday’s $125,000 James Lewis III Stakes for 2-year-olds at Laurel Park.

The locally based Amerigo Vespucci, trained by Tim Tullock, has essentially paired up his Beyer Speed Figures by coming from off the pace to win his career debut going six furlongs with a 65 Beyer and then coming back 2 1/2 weeks later to rally to a 2 1/4-length victory in a first-level optional $40,000 claimer at seven furlongs with a 67 Beyer.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Five Kentucky-based winners at the Breeders’ Cup last weekend at Santa Anita will be paraded before the home crowd Sunday at Churchill Downs.

Wise Dan, Fort Larned, Groupie Doll, Little Mike, and Tapizar will be led over from the barn area after the seventh race. They will come to the paddock with the horses for the eighth race, which is scheduled for 4:06 p.m. Eastern, and remain there during the subsequent post parade and running of the race. The connections of all five horses also will be recognized during the brief ceremony.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Honorable Guest notched his first stakes victory in workmanlike fashion on Wednesday night at Woodbine in the $125,000 Frost King.

Live racing has been canceled at Aqueduct for Thursday as a result of Wednesday's nor’easter that left behind several inches of wet snow.

Aqueduct and the Belmont Café will remain open for simulcasting, and Telebet and Internet wagering will be available. Live racing is scheduled to resume Friday.