SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – My Miss Aurelia, the champion 2-year-old filly of 2011, makes her long-awaited return to the races Wednesday at Saratoga in the $100,000 Mandy’s Gold Stakes at 6 1/2 furlongs.

The race will be the first for My Miss Aurelia since she won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies last Nov. 4 at Churchill Downs, capping a perfect 4-for-4 campaign.

“It’s very exciting to get her back to the races,” said Steve Asmussen, who trains My Miss Aurelia for Stonestreet Stables and George Bolton.

Up Jumps a Monster, who has run to his name while going undefeated in four races at Northlands Park, looms as the horse to beat in Monday’s $75,000 Manitoba Lotteries Derby at Assiniboia Downs.

The Manitoba Derby, a 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-olds, is the highlight on a blockbuster program that also will include the $50,000 Assiniboia Oaks for 3-year-old fillies, the $30,000 R.J. Speers for 3-year-olds and upward, and the $30,000 Graduation for 2-year-olds.

CHESTER, W.Va. – Blueeyesintherein was scratched this morning as the heavy favorite for the $100,000 Mountaineer Juvenile Fillies after taking what trainer Garry Simms described as “a few bad steps out of her stall.”

DEL MAR, Calif. – Unusual Heatwave can sprint or route, run on turf or the main track, but he found seven furlongs on Polytrack the ideal conditions early Friday evening when he rallied to capture the $200,000 Real Good Deal Stakes for California-bred 3-year-olds at Del Mar.

Unusual Heatwave ($8.80) gave jockey Rafael Bejarano, the meet’s leading rider, his seventh stakes win of the meet from the 14 run so far. And he provided trainer Alexis Barba with her first Del Mar stakes win.

Roadhog, no better than fourth in his first two starts of the season even he dropped to run for a $35,000 claiming tag, relished the return to Pennsylvania-bred company to win the second of two $75,000 turf stakes for statebreds Friday night at Penn National.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. said he was "licking his lips" when he saw the early fractions, 21.14 seconds and 43.78, go up on the tote board during the early stages of Friday's $200,000 Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga. That suicidal pace ultimately led to Dutrow standing in the winner's circle after his C C's Pal rallied to a neck decision over Island Bound in the Grade 2 stakes for fillies and mares.   

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Even if the race didn't go as expected, the connections of Harrods Creek got the desired result in Friday's $100,000 John's Call Stakes at Saratoga.

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Trainer Patrick Kelly said he was considering running Yield Bogey in next week’s Grade 2, $500,000 Fourstardave after the 8-year-old turf specialist’s 47.78-second half-mile bullet work over the Oklahoma grass course Friday.

Yield Bogey, who finished third in both the Grade 3 Jaipur and Grade 3 Poker stakes at Belmont, is coming off a fifth-place finish when turned back to 5 1/2 furlongs for an overnight stakes here earlier in the meet.

It appears that trainer Nick Zito has Casual Trick headed in the right direction.

Casual Trick, a 3-year-old son of Bernardini, lost two straight races by a combined 50 3/4 lengths and was eased in the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct. He was reported to have a breathing problem.

Casual Trick returned to the races July 4 and won an allowance race at Parx Racing by 2 1/2 lengths, earning a Beyer Speed Figure of 92.

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Mildly Offensive, a stakes-winning daughter of Sharp Humor, was purchased by WinStar Farm and turned over to trainer Todd Pletcher.

Mildly Offensive had been racing in Southern California for Carla Gaines, who trained the filly for owner Warren Williamson. Gaines had purchased Mildly Offensive as a yearling from WinStar.

According to WinStar president Elliott Walden, WinStar purchased Mildly Offensive back as a broodmare prospect, but planned to race her a couple more times this fall in hopes of getting some graded-stakes black type.