They’re all new, and they’re all pretty good. Three $75,000 stakes are on the Saturday undercard at Kentucky Downs leading into the annual showcase race, the Kentucky Turf Cup, and each looks like a race worth renewing in future years at the turf-only track in Franklin, Ky.

Two of those races are for 2-year-olds, essentially filling a spot on the Kentucky racing calendar once occupied by Kentucky Cup events at Turfway Park, while the other is a pseudo-counterpart to the Turf Cup for fillies and mares.

Here is a rundown of those supporting events:

Stormy Lord and Cantonic, who are a combined 3 for 3 over the turf course at Parx Racing, could go head to head from gate to wire when they clash in Saturday’s $250,000 Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association President’s Cup.

The 5-year-old Stormy Lord, who shipped in from Woodbine to upset last year’s President’s Cup at 9-1, figures to be a far shorter price when he defends his title in the 1 1/8-mile turf race. He is dropping in class and cutting back in distrance off a runner-up effort, beaten three-quarters of the length, in the Grade 2 Sky Classic at 1 1/4 miles.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Leading trainer Mark Casse will spring into action Saturday at Woodbine, when he runs Spring in the Air and Spring Venture in the $250,000 Natalma Stakes.

The Grade 2 turf route for 2-year-old fillies is an important Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In event, with the winner earning a fees-paid trip to the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf in November at Santa Anita. The Natalma has produced the last two BC Juvenile Fillies Turf winners, More Than Real, who finished second in the Natalma, and Stephanie’s Kitten, who was third in the Natalma.

Lon Wiggins won the first graded stakes of his training career at Arlington last Saturday, when Gold Edge captured the Grade 3 Arlington-Washington Lassie by a neck, her third win from three starts this summer. The win was satisfying for Wiggins. Gold Edge is a 2-year-old filly with more than her fair share of quirks. Wiggins and his barn patiently have helped Gold Edge through them, and the filly has prospered.

But just as Wiggins, 43, has developed the most talented horse he’s ever trained, she is on the verge of leaving him.

POMONA, Calif. – Order was restored Wednesday evening at Los Angeles County Fair, where the pick six that began with a $214,764 triple carryover finally was hit.

Bettors poured $1,165,895 into the pick six, which returned $25,817.80 to 32 winning tickets.

While form settled on the twilight card, the Fairplex jockey colony went into disarray. Martin Pedroza, the track’s all-time leader with 691 wins, went down in a spill in race 7 and was transported to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center for X-rays.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Nates Mineshaft, who hasn’t raced since a close third-place finish in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster on June 16, is back in steady training. He posted a three-furlong workout Sept. 5 at Arlington, and is being pointed to the $500,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup on Oct. 8.

“We gave him a little freshener during the heat of the summer,” said trainer Austin Smith. “He seems to be doing all right. He’s a pretty cool character.”

Shackleford took a big step toward getting back to the races by breezing a bullet half-mile in 46.60 seconds Tuesday morning at Churchill Downs. The 4-year-old colt had not breezed since coming down with a minor illness, forcing him to be scratched as the morning-line favorite from the Sept. 1 Forego at Saratoga.

“He’s back doing good again,” said trainer Dale Romans. “That little setback we had is behind us.”

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Earlier this month, Keeneland-based trainer Phil Oliver invaded Arlington Park with a relatively unknown 4-year-old gelding and took home first money in the Grade 3 Washington Park Handicap when Middie won in a romp at odds of 14-1. This weekend, it is Vicki Oliver, Phil’s wife, who is coming to Chicago to try a graded stakes. Bettors should be so lucky to get anything close to 14-1 on Rare Event, Oliver’s entrant in Saturday’s Grade  3, $175,000 Pucker Up Stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

One thing La Cloche has in common with her Grade 1-winning younger sister Winter Memories is a fondness for the turf courses at Belmont Park. Saturday, La Cloche returns to her preferred surface when she faces eight opponents in the Grade 3, $150,000 Noble Damsel Stakes for fillies and mares at a mile.

ELMONT, N.Y. – What looked to be the ideal spot for Karlovy Vary turned out to be anything but when she came out of her third-place finish in the Nani Rose Stakes on July 29 at Saratoga with a significant cut to the cannon bone of her right foreleg, an injury that could have been a lot worse.

“We got lucky,” trainer Rusty Arnold said. “It missed the suspensory by a quarter of an inch.”