ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Scalo took up residence here last month, and the talented German runner might be peaking for Sunday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Northern Dancer Turf, a contentious supporting feature on the Woodbine Mile card.

The 12-furlong marathon, which is a prep for the next month’s Grade 1, $1.5 million Canadian International, has lured a solid group that also includes last year’s winner, Wigmore Hall; the Roger Attfield-trained duo of Musketier and Forte Dei Marmi; and Woodbine Oaks winner Irish Mission.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The Grade 3, $100,000 Ballerina is shaping up to be a great matchup between two talented fillies, Evelyn’s Dancer and Class Included. The 1 1/8-mile race for fillies and mares will share the spotlight with the Grade 3 Premiers for 3-year-olds and up on Canadian Thanksgiving at Hastings, Monday, Oct. 8.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Texas Buccaneer took advantage of a brisk pace to win the 1 3/8-mile second leg of the endurance series at Hastings on Aug. 17 but the advantage in the third leg on Sunday could shift to Sufi Dancer, who finished third as the favorite. The 1 7/16-mile starter handicap for 3-year-olds and up drew five horses and will go as race 3 on the eight-race card that begins at 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Kapitale, trained in Germany by Andreas Woehler, joined her stablemate Scalo here at Woodbine last week.

Both horses will run Sunday, and both are morning-line favorites, with Kapitale pegged at 5-2 for the Canadian and Scalo at 2-1 for the Northern Dancer.

Kapitale, a 5-year-old who has made just seven lifetime starts, will face eight other fillies and mares in the Canadian, a 1 1/8-mile turf race that offers Grade 2 status and a purse of $300,000.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse has entered Stealcase, Prospective, and Patrioticandproud in $150,000 Ontario Derby , the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds that will be run on Woodbine Mile Day for the first time.

Casse anticipates sending out just two horses for the Grade 3 Ontario Derby, however, and Stealcase and Prospective both are owned by John Oxley

“I don’t see Prospective and Stealcase running against each other,” said Casse.

“I’m toying with the idea of taking Prospective to Oklahoma.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Wise Dan, one of the most talented and versatile horses on the continent, stands out in the 16th running of the $1 million Woodbine Mile, and should be the prohibitive favorite in the Grade 1 turf event.

The Woodbine Mile heads an outstanding Sunday card that also includes three other stakes: the Grade 1, $500,000 Northern Dancer Turf, which is the prep for the Canadian International; the Grade 2, $300,000 Canadian; and the $150,000 Ontario Derby, a newly minted Grade 3.

ARCADIA, Calif. – A life-size bronze of the mighty Zenyatta will be unveiled Sept. 29 at Santa Anita, where its permanent home will be in the paddock gardens near statues of John Henry and Seabiscuit.

The statue of Zenyatta – all 17.2 hands and 1,200 pounds – was created by renowned sculptress Nina Kaiser, who also produced the John Henry statue. The Zenyatta bronze will be south of the Kingsbury Fountain, directly across from the John Henry bronze on the fountain’s north side. Kaiser spent two years creating the Zenyatta statue.

Algorithms, one of the early leaders of the 3-year-old division after his victory in the Holy Bull Stakes in January, returned to trainer Todd Pletcher’s Belmont Park barn on Wednesday and was on the track Thursday morning.

Algorithms was sidelined with a fractured splint bone discovered the morning of the Fountain of Youth in February. He was the morning-line favorite.

Martin Pedroza escaped serious injury in a spill Wednesday evening at Fairplex Park, and the track’s all-time leading jockey was expected to resume riding Friday or Saturday.

Pedroza was unseated on the clubhouse turn of the seventh race, where his mount, Warren’s Tyler S, appeared to drift out and clip heels with Slippery Slewp. Pedroza went over the top, was thrown hard to the ground, and may have been stepped on by his horse.

Wildcat Creek, winner of his turf debut last month at Monmouth Park, and Gentlemans Code, who put together a three-race winning streak on Polytrack and turf in Kentucky and Illinois this past spring, are the prime contenders in the $50,000 Thomas Clifton Stakes at Penn National. The five-furlong turf sprint is restricted to 3-year-olds who have never won a stakes.