DEL MAR, Calif. – By just about all rights, City to City shouldn’t even be racing. She suffered a serious injury to her right front ankle during a workout here at Del Mar two years ago, and Jerry Hollendorfer, her trainer and co-owner, thought her career was over.

But surgery performed by Dr. Wayne McIlwraith and extensive rehabilitation done in Washington state at the Pegasus Training Center of co-owner Mark DeDomenico put Humpty Dumpty back together again.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – A photograph of Pender Harbour graces the cover of the catalog for the 2012 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society yearling sale that will kick off with a selected session starting at 7 p.m. Monday at the Woodbine sales pavilion. Pender Harbour was a $17,000 CTHS yearling purchase who was Canada’s champion 3-year-old male last year and has earned more than $1.1 million, so it is appropriate that he will be on display in the flesh here in Monday’s $125,000 Elgin Stakes.

Back in May, trainer John Stinebaugh sent out Krash Cartel to win a Quarter Horse trial by an overwhelming 4 1/4 lengths. At the time, he said it was one of the most impressive races he had ever seen from a 2-year-old at Ruidoso Downs.

And then came Pj Chick in Black.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Two $50,000 sprint stakes will be featured at Hastings on Monday, and one of the six-furlong races has a heavy favorite, while the other is wide open.

Herbie D is a standout in the Derby Bar and Grill Express for 3-year-olds and up, which drew five horses and goes as the fourth race. In the Derby Bar and Grill Ladies Express, it is hard to separate the leading contenders among the seven fillies and mares entered.

Post time for the nine-race Labor Day card is 1:50 p.m. Pacific.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ralph Biamonte swept both $200,000 yearling sales stakes for 2-year-olds last year with Menlo Castle and Rose and Shine, who are both competing against older horses on the same card Monday. Biamonte also will be represented in both 6 1/2-furlong 2-year-old races again this year, when he sends out Cryptic Message in the Muskoka and Open Ice Hit in the Simcoe.

Formaggio looks as good as any Monday in the $50,000 Cliff Guilliams Memorial – that is, if he runs at Ellis Park instead of shipping to Arlington Park for an allowance race.

“We’re leaning toward the Ellis race,” trainer David Carroll said, cautioning that the forecast for steady rain throughout the Labor Day weekend in Kentucky might lead him to change plans. “If they take everything off the turf Monday, we might go ahead and ship to Chicago.”

OCEANPORT, N.J. – The Monmouth Park-based Sean Avery, sidelined for more than a year with a tendon injury, makes his comeback Monday in the $350,000 Turf Monster Handicap at Parx Racing.

The enormously talented 6-year-old gelding has been plagued by injuries throughout his career. The Turf Monster will be only the 11th start for Sean Avery, named for the now-retired pugnacious hockey player. It also will be his first race on grass.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Shackleford, the 2-1 morning-line favorite, was scratched from Saturday’s Grade 1, $500,000 Forego Stakes at Saratoga due to an illness, trainer Dale Romans said Saturday morning.

Romans said Shackleford had coughed last week and he treated him with medication, which helped stop the coughing. But when he took the horse off the medication, Shackleford coughed again and Friday night left some feed.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The Monmouth meet heads into the homestretch after Monday with only 10 days left. The track will run Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 7.

In the jockey standings, Elvis Trujillo held a substantial lead over Paco Lopez going into the Saturday card. They finished one-two last year and appear destined to repeat that finish.

If he maintains the lead, Trujillo will have his third Monmouth title in the last four years.

It is much tighter in the training race where defending champion Jane Cibelli once again was setting the pace.

Patty’s Pride rallied from about 10 lengths off the pace to win the $50,000 Ricks Memorial by 1 3/4 lengths Friday night at Remington Park. Gorgeous Melody finished second in the one-mile turf race for fillies and mares, andit was another nose back in third to Someplace Else.