INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The $150,000 Landaluce Stakes on Saturday at Betfair Hollywood Park would have been a swell betting race, with an evenly matched field.

That was before Executiveprivilege was entered in the six-furlong stakes. Her presence turns a seemingly competitive sprint with eight juvenile fillies into a virtual exhibition.

The smashing debut by Executiveprivilege was the most impressive performance of the meet by a 2-year-old filly, and it makes her an apparent standout in the Landaluce, race 4.

Bated Breath was 15 races into his career before he won his first group race, the Group 2 Temple Stakes at Haydock Park in England in late May.

It was a rare drop in class out of Group 1 company for the 5-year-old, who later finished second in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 19. Saturday at Newmarket Racecourse, Bated Breath makes his eighth appearance in a Group 1, in the July Cup over six furlongs. Second in the 2011 July Cup, Bated Breath will be favored in a field of 15.

ELMONT, N.Y. – A year after winning the Grade 1 Man o’ War at Belmont Park with Cape Blanco, trainer Aidan O’Brien has sent the multiple Group 1/Grade 1 winner Treasure Beach to New York for Saturday’s renewal of the $600,000 Man o’ War.

Treasure Beach is the only Grade 1 winner among the eight horses entered in the Man o’ War, scheduled for 1 3/8 miles over the Widener turf course and the last graded stakes to be run at Belmont this meet. The field includes Grade 2 winners Point of Entry, Hudson Steele, and Newsdad.

MIAMI – Angelica Zapata and Canadian Mistress, who finished a neck apart in that order in the Emergency Nurse Stakes last month, will match strides again Saturday under similar conditions in Calder’s $75,000 Nancy’s Glitter Handicap at 1 1/16 miles.

Angelica Zapata has never been better. The Emergency Nurse was the second consecutive stakes success for the 4-year-old Angelica Zapata, who paired up career-best 97 Beyer Speed Figures in her last two starts. She also won the Sara’s Success going a mile in the slop on May 19.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Lady of Shamrock gave trainer John Sadler a small measure of consolation in the seconds after she had finished second by a nose in the Grade 2 Honeymoon Handicap at Betfair Hollywood Park on June 9.

Lady of Shamrock galloped out well clear of the field after a troubled trip, leaving Sadler immediately looking forward to Saturday’s $350,000 American Oaks.

“She just zoomed,” he said of the way she traveled after the wire.

In the spring of last year Kathmanblu was regarded as one of the top 3-year-old fillies in the country. Having won four stakes by that point, she went into the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes and finished third as the favorite, and then returned a month later and ran sixth at 4-1 odds in the Kentucky Oaks.

Fourteen months later with her form in decline, Kathmanblu is just trying to win a race – specifically Saturday’s $50,000 Ellis Park Turf.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Ricky Griffith has sent out the winners of the only open 2-year-old stakes thus far at the Woodbine meeting, capturing the five-furlong Victoria with the colt Ray’s Away and the five-furlong My Dear with the filly Just Got In.

On Saturday, Griffith will be looking to extend that streak when he saddles Ray’s Away for the Colin, an open six-furlong stakes with a purse of $150,000.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Excaper will stretch out a furlong Saturday on the Woodbine turf in the $150,000 Toronto Cup Stakes, and judging by the way he relaxed in his last race, the nine furlongs should be within his range.

It is appropriate the $50,000 Ky Alta Handicap will share the stage with the inaugural running of the R.K. “Red” Smith Handicap at Northlands Park Saturday. Smith trained Ky Alta and many other stars at Northlands Park over his long career.

Smith, who was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2004, is close to reaching 2,500 wins. With 2,492 wins Smith will surely make it to the mark before the season is over. He currently has about 30 horses in training.

“Fancy As has to be the highlight of my career,” said Smith, who is 74.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Two New Yorkers flew to Chicago on Tuesday for the Arlington Handicap. Five-year-old Boisterous has won three graded stakes and is the 5-2 morning-line favorite. But Sky Blazer just might be the horse with the brighter future.

The 4-year-old Barclay Tagg-trained gelding has never run a bad race in a 10-start career while improving steadily, and his most recent performance, a blowout third-level allowance win May 19 at Belmont, felt like a breakthrough.