OCEANPORT, N.J. – Dancing Solo bids for a third stakes win at the meet on Sunday in the $60,000 Twin Lights Stakes for 3-year-old turf fillies at Monmouth Park.

Breaking from the rail, Dancing Solo will look to build on a Monmouth season in which she has already captured the Grade 3 Boiling Springs and the Little Silver.

Following the Boiling Springs victory, trainer Todd Pletcher upped the ante for Dancing Solo in the Grade 2 Lake George at Saratoga. She finished seventh after encountering traffic trouble early and late.

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – When the gelding New Look finished second in a division of the Golden State Derby trials on Aug. 12, trainer Dan Francisco began focusing on Sunday’s $236,400 final at Los Alamitos.

“He ran a good race in the trials,” Francisco said. “He didn’t have the fastest time, but I don’t worry about that.”

New Look was beaten a head by Do You Do Corona in the 400-yard race. He was timed in 19.83 seconds, recording the third-fastest qualifying time for the Grade 1 race.

Francisco was enthused that big-race rider Rodrigo Aceves has kept the mount.

AUBURN, Wash. – A stakes race scheduled for Sunday – the $50,000 Barbara Shinpoch – fell by the wayside because of insufficient entries, Emerald Downs officials announced Thursday, leaving talented stablemates Goin to the Window, Blueberry Smoothie, and Stopshoppingdebbie on the sideline for what was supposed to be the meeting’s final non-restricted stakes race for 2-year-old fillies.

[bc_video_id:261074:]SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – They have combined to win 15 of 24 starts, 10 graded stakes, and accrued $3.7 million in purses. One is the champion 3-year-old filly of 2011; the other is undefeated in three starts this year.

DEL MAR, Calif. – It’s safe to say that Camp Victory is a barn favorite at trainer Mike Mitchell’s stable.

On June 30, a day after Mitchell underwent surgery to have a brain tumor removed, Camp Victory won the Grade 1 Triple Bend Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park. Sunday, Mitchell, who is still undergoing treatments, will be at Del Mar to watch Camp Victory make his next start in the $250,000 Pat O’Brien Stakes.

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DEL MAR, Calif. – The rivalry between the barns of trainers Bob Baffert and Doug O’Neill has been the focal point in the days leading up to the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar on Sunday, but the steel-cage match has been several months in the making.

Hall of Fame jockey Kent Desormeaux is among those intending to ride daily at the upcoming Kentucky Downs meet. Agent J.R. Pegram said from Saratoga this week that Desormeaux then will ride at Keeneland and Churchill afterward.

Kentucky Downs, located near the south-central town of Franklin, will be offering by far its biggest purses ever, with some $2.4 million spread over six days, thanks to the revenue stream being provided by Instant Racing gaming machines. The turf-only track will run on a new schedule of two Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays from Sept. 8-19.

Groupie Doll, the only horse in the North American filly-mare sprint division to win two Grade 1 races this year, is definitely pointing to the premier race of the Presque Isle Downs meet, the $400,000 Masters on Sept. 8, after breezing a sharp five furlongs in 58 seconds early Friday at Churchill.

Trainer Billy Morey was thinking of the C.J. Hindley Humboldt County Marathon when he claimed Falling Knife for $25,000 at Del Mar on Aug. 9.

“It’s the only reason we claimed him,” said Morey, who made the claim for the Joseph P. Morey Jr. Revocable Trust.

On Sunday, he’ll see if the claim pays off when Falling Knife meets seven rivals in the $30,000, 1 5/8-mile race that closes the Humboldt County Fair in Ferndale.

The quality of racing at Ferndale and Del Mar is separated by almost the distance between California’s northernmost and southernmost tracks.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario − It’s been said that turnbacks don’t often work on the turf, but Riding the River will try to buck the theory Sunday at Woodbine in the $200,000 Play the King Stakes.

A seven-furlong sprint, the Play the King is the prep for the $1 million Woodbine Mile on Sept. 16.

Riding the River has captured Grade 2 turf stakes in his last two starts, the one-mile King Edward and the nine-furlong Nijinsky, both under Todd Kabel. Trainer David Cotey said he is cautiously optimistic that the cutback in distance won’t be a hindrance to Riding the River.