ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Fatal Bullet, the 2008 Canadian Horse of the Year, will run with an $80,000 claiming tag in the featured eighth race Friday at Woodbine, a third-level optional claimer at six furlongs. Post time for the first of nine races is 1:05 p.m.

Fatal Bullet, 7, finished second to Midnight Lute in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Sprint at Santa Anita in 2008 after taking the Grade 3 Kentucky Cup Sprint Stakes with a 108 Beyer Speed Figure. The highlights of his 2009 campaign were victories in the Bold Venture Stakes (109 Beyer) and the Grade 3 Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse hit the trifecta here in Monday’s 6 1/2-furlong Simcoe, the yearling sales stakes for 2-year-old colts and geldings. Casse did not wager, which would have yielded only $165.50 for each $2 played, but saddled the first three finishers for a gross return of $180,000.

Dynamic Sky led the way, scoring by a head over Honorable Guest, with Star Contender a distant third. The three are unlikely to meet again in the near future.

Deacon Speakin’ successfully defended his title in the $37,800 Portland Meadows Mile on Monday, holding off fellow Northern California invader When We Met for a three-quarter-length victory. Lesson in Deceit rallied for third, 13 1/2 lengths behind When We Met.

Under Luis Torres, Deacon Speakin' stalked the pace of See Ya Later Slew, took the lead into the stretch, and finished the one-mile race in 1:37.08. When We Met rallied behind Deacon Speakin' and couldn't catch him.

DEL MAR - Wednesday's closing-day card at Del Mar received a boost on Monday, when no one hit the pick six, resulting in a carryover of $194,259.

Because it is closing day, there will be a mandatory payout. The pick six begins on race 5, the Oak Tree Juvenile Turf.

Bourbon Courage proved to be a mighty quick horse in sprints this spring at Fair Grounds in New Orleans, where he won the first two starts of his career with triple-digit Beyer Figures. Saturday, he will be looking to get his first victory at two turns in the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby.

DEL MAR, Calif. – After Halo Dolly was defeated in the Osunitas Stakes the first weekend of the meet here at Del Mar, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer let it be known to jockey Joe Talamo and his agent, Scotty McClellan, that he was none too pleased with the ride. But Hollendorfer kept Talamo on the filly, and that proved beneficial, because Halo Dolly won two stakes in subsequent weeks, including a breakthrough victory on Monday in the Grade 2 Yellow Ribbon Handicap.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Twice Marketing Mix has raced in Grade 1 competition, and twice she has run well without winning. Last fall at Keeneland, it was a fine runner-up finish behind the Irish invader Together in the Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup, and last month at Arlington it was a head loss to the English shipper I’m A Dreamer in the Beverly D. Clearly, Marketing Mix is good enough to put a win at the highest level on her résumé , and her connections have now sent her west in an effort to accomplish that goal.

Ellis Park ended its 29-day summer meet Monday with a nearly 13 percent increase in daily all-sources wagering over corresponding 2011 figures while showing a modest gain in ontrack business.

Bryan Schultz, 43, has been named the new track superintendent for Delta Downs in Vinton, La. The track opens its Thoroughbred meet on Oct. 19.

Schultz is a former assistant track superintendent for Lone Star Park near Dallas. He also worked in track maintenance at the shuttered Trinity Meadows near Ft. Worth, Texas.

Turfway Park opens a 16-day fall meet Thursday evening amid perhaps the most trying of circumstances in the 53-year history of the northern Kentucky track, with no stakes on the schedule and a worsening plight in the fight for gambling dollars.

With its closest neighboring state, Ohio, ready to join Indiana in bringing casinos to the competitive landscape, Turfway is in a bare-bones survival mode. After reviving its once-proud Kentucky Cup series last fall following a one-year hiatus, Turfway officials announced last month that no stakes at all will be run this fall.