DEL MAR, Calif. – The $85,000 California Thoroughbred Trainers and Thoroughbred Owners of California Handicap at Del Mar on Friday may be an ideal race for Let’s Go Cheyenne’s stakes debut.

A well-bred 4-year-old filly, Let’s Go Cheyenne has won twice in eight starts and will be making her first start at 1 3/8 miles on turf.

The distance will not be an issue, trainer Vladimir Cerin said.

“I’ve always thought the longer, the better,” Cerin said. “Here’s an opportunity.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Racing luck figures to play an important role in Saturday’s $150,000 Ontario Colleen, a one-mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies that attracted a bulky field of 12.

Trainer Reade Baker is hoping he gets a fair shake with Solid Appeal, a Kentucky-bred whom he trains for Jim and Susan Hill.

EDMONTON, Alberta – Devil in Disguise will be a heavy favorite when he leaves from post 7 in the Grade 3, $200,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park on Saturday. The post positions for the 83rd Canadian Derby were chosen at a brunch held at Northlands on Wednesday. The 1 3/8-mile race drew nine horses.

Trainer Dennis Terry wasn’t that concerned about which post was available when he had to make his decision for Devil in Disguise. Terry won the 1989 Canadian Derby with Havigotadealforu.

BOSSIER CITY, La. – One year after his breakout summer of 2011, trainer Al Cates is at it again.

A winner of 12 races out of just 48 starters a year ago, Cates has already matched that win total this season while sending out only 41 runners with a third of the current stand still to go. While he continues to be solid in the claiming game, Cates’s trademark has become his remarkable prowess in the 2-year-old ranks.

Live racing returns to Maryland for the first time since Preakness Day with the opening of historic Timonium at the Maryland State Fair on Friday.

Timonium, which held its first meet in 1887 and is now the lone fair east of the Mississippi River to conduct Thoroughbred racing, will hold a seven-day meet spanning Friday through Sunday this weekend and Friday, Aug. 31, through Labor Day.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Man Stuff didn’t enjoy running off the lead in the Duchess Stakes, and she figures to rebound as the lone speed in Friday’s Woodbine headliner, a third-level optional claimer over seven furlongs.

Man Stuff, a 3-year-old trained by Nick Gonzalez, won her first two outings on the front end in the spring before ending up a close third in the Alywow Stakes on the grass.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Stormin for Becka, an impressive debut winner for trainer Craig MacPherson, should be tough to handle in the colts and geldings division of the $50,000 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Sales Stakes at Hastings on Friday. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint drew 10 horses and headlines the eight-race car, which begins at 3:20 p.m. Pacific.

Bamboo Dream heads the fillies division, which attracted six horses and goes as the third race.

Golden Stripe, a beaten choice in the open Winnipeg Sun last time out, will be heavily backed to make amends as she faces fellow Manitoba-bred fillies and mares in Friday’s $50,000 Distaff at Assiniboia Downs.

The one-mile Distaff is the first leg of a stakes tripleheader completed by the Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Sale Stake and the Debutante.

The Sales Stake, worth $40,000, is a six-furlong race for 2-year-old graduates of the local CTHS yearling sale.

The $30,000 Debutante, also at six furlongs, is an open race for 2-year-old fillies.

Country Button and Sharp as Ever look like the main players in the $38,000 Esquirol Farms Sales Stakes at Northlands Park on Friday. The six-furlong sprint for 2-year-olds drew eight horses and goes as race 8 on the nine-race card, which begins at 6 p.m. Mountain.

To be eligible for the race, horses must have gone through the Esquirol Farms summer yearling and guests sale last year. The sale will not be held this year.

Hay Jude ended a 30-race career for trainer Tom Swearingen with a last-place finish in a $7,500 claiming race at Arlington Park in June 2002. Swearingen, a mainstay of the Illinois racing circuit, already had enough broodmares on his South Elgin, Ill., farm, and all he wanted was for Hay Jude “to have a real good home.”

Carlo Vaccarezza, a friend of Swearingen’s business partner, Pat Greco, “would come out to the farm sometimes, and he took a liking to the mare,” said Swearingen. “So we gave him the mare.”