VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Commander will be a heavy favorite to win his sixth stakes race in a row in the $100,000 B.C. Premiers at Hastings on Monday. The main threat to ending his streak appears to be Jebrica, who won the race for 3-year-olds and up last year.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The Grade 3, $100,000 Ballerina at Hastings on Monday features a classic matchup between the top older female at Emerald Downs, Class Included, and the dominant 3-year-old filly at Hastings, Evelyn’s Dancer.

The 1 1/8-mile race for fillies and mares drew seven horses and goes as race 4 on a nine-race card that begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific. Under the scale weight conditions of the race, older fillies and mares will carry 123 pounds and 3-year-olds 120.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Led by Watsdachances, trainer Chad Brown will take three shots at Monday’s Grade  3, $150,000 Miss Grillo Stakes at Belmont Park, hoping to get back to the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, the inaugural running of which Brown won four years ago with Maram.

Brown also will send out maidens Wave Theory and Atlantic Dream in the Miss Grillo, a 1 1/16-mile grass race that drew a field of 12.

Higher Logic overcame an early duel to win the $88,000 Indiana Stallion Stakes at Hoosier Park on Friday evening.

Jockey Irwin Rosendo hustled Higher Logic away from the gate and she set a pressured pace to upper stretch. Rosendo asked the 2-year-old Indiana-sired filly trained by Antonio Duran for her best and she responded, drawing off to a 5 1/2-length win over a track labeled as muddy.

PHOENIX - First Strike finished strongly from far back to capture Friday's $35,000 Bienvenidos Stakes, a 6 1/2-furlong race that helped kicked off the 156-day meet which runs through May 7.

Burst of Life improved her Remington Park record to 7 for 9 on Friday night, when she won a three-way photo over All About Allie and 1-2 favorite Moon Buzz in the $50,000 Flashy Lady. Burst of Life’s official margin of victory was a neck over About Allie, while it was another head back in third to Moon Buzz.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Mark Casse has been touting for months the potential of the 2-year-old crop he has under his training care this year. At least in this timely instance, Casse was proven absolutely right on opening day of the Keeneland fall meet Friday when Spring In the Air, with Patrick Husbands riding for Casse and owner John Oxley, rolled home a winner in the 61st running of the Grade 1, $400,000 Darley Alcibiades Stakes.

Madresita might have been second in her trial for the $100,000 Black Gold Futurity, but as the lone stakes winner in the field she will start as a top contender Sunday in the 350-yard race being run at Will Rogers Downs near Tulsa, Okla.

Someplace Else has been living someplace else for the last week and a half. The Oklahoma-based filly has been calling Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., home since Sept. 27, when she shipped into town three days in advance of the $60,000 Chaves County Stakes.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Sum of the Parts broke like a shot and proceeded to lead every inch of the six-furlong distance of the Grade 3 Phoenix Stakes on the opening-day card on a warm Friday at Keeneland.

Giving Julien Leparoux his third victory of the day, Sum of the Parts, a 3-year-old facing older rivals, returned $11.80 as third choice in a field of 10 in the 160th running of the $175,000 Phoenix. He finished in 1:09.88 over the Polytrack surface.