ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Man Stuff drops in class off a victory over older opposition Saturday, when she will meet 3-year-old fillies over seven furlongs in the $150,000 Duchess Stakes at Woodbine.

If Paynter is deemed the horse to beat in Sunday’s Grade 1, $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park, then Javier Castellano, the rider of likely second choice Gemologist won’t have to work hard to find him.

Gemologist, the Wood Memorial winner, drew post 4, one slot to the outside of Paynter, the Belmont Stakes runner-up, when entries were made and post positions drawn on Thursday for Sunday’s Haskell, the marquee event of the Monmouth meet. The Haskell will go as race 13 on a 14-race program that begins at noon. Post time for the Haskell is 6:17 p.m.

When trainer Bob Hess looked through the Sonoma County Fair condition book, he scanned the claiming-race opportunities on the turf for Cal Bayers. Then something happened to make him revise his plans and enter her in Saturday’s $50,000 Jack Demeo Horseman of the Year Stakes: A horse Cal Bayers beat in her last start came back to win at Del Mar.

ALTOONA, Iowa – Saturday night’s $100,000 Prairie Meadows Handicap, a 1 1/4-mile stamina test for older horses, drew a difficult-to-separate field of five headed by 2010 Prairie Meadows Cornhusker Handicap champion Shadowbdancing.

You, too, thought Ben’s Cat was on the other side of midnight? Well, not so fast.

“He came back from those two supbar races and probably ran the best race of his life,” King Leatherbury, the breeder-owner-trainer of Ben’s Cat, said in reference to a two-length victory last month as a 10-1 shot in the $150,000 Parx Dash in Philadelphia. “I think he got a zero on the Thoro-Graph Sheets.”

MIAMI – Eddie Plesa Jr. and Kathleen O’Connell have dominated the 2-year-old racing at Calder this summer, so it’s appropriate that they will send out the two top contenders, Dixie High and Two T’s At Two B, in Saturday’s $75,000 Dr. Fager Stakes. The six-furlong Dr. Fager and its filly counterpart, the $75,000 Desert Vixen, once again kick off the Florida Stallion Stakes, a three-race series for Florida-bred 2-year-olds offering total purses estimated at $1 million.

Toby’s Corner returned from a layoff well enough, finishing third this winter in both the Grade 2 General George and Grade 2 New Orleans Handicap.

“He started off great,” said Graham Motion, trainer of Toby’s Corner. “But then his last two races have been real head-scratchers.”

Parx Racing is running a pair of $75,000 stakes for Pennsylvania-breds on Saturday, and trainer John Servis has a solid contender in each race.

Servis sends out Yourhonorandglory in the Crowd Pleaser for 3-year-olds at 1 1/16 miles on the turf and Parvenu in the Power By Far for filly and mare sprinters.

The barn always held Yourhonorandglory in high esteem, especially when he won two of his first four starts. His progress was derailed by a bout of Lyme disease after running 12th in the Gulfstream Park Derby on New Year’s Day.

OPELOUSAS, La. – Louisiana’s best 2-year-olds will go postward in two divisions of the D.S. “Shine” Young Futurity at Evangeline Downs Saturday night.

The filly division goes as the eighth of 11 races on the evening card and will be worth $131,100, while the colts and geldings go in the 10th for a purse of $124,600. Both races will be contested at five furlongs.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Saturday’s inaugural $150,000 Mystic Lake Derby is the first significant co-promotional event between the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community and Canterbury Park since an $83.5 million cooperative marketing and purse enhancement agreement was reached on June 6.

It is the richest race held at Canterbury since the track reopened under its current management in 1995.