VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Trainer Troy Taylor and owner Glen Todd have teamed up to win six of the 11 stakes races contested at Hastings this year and they should add to their riches when Evelyn’s Dancer runs in the $50,000 Supernaturel Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies drew seven horses, but Evelyn’s Dancer looks formidable.

Schillerthekiller won his local debut in the six-furlong Free Press on June 17, and will be looking to duplicate that success when he stretches out to a mile for Saturday’s Wheat City at Assiniboia Downs.

The $30,000 Wheat City, for 3-year-olds and upward, attracted a field of six and will go as the seventh of eight races on the program.

Schillerthekiller, a 4-year-old gelding, shipped in from Canterbury Park for the Free Press. He stalked the pace in that race before taking charge for a 2 1/4-length victory under returning rider Adolfo Morales.

The combination of temperatures expected to crest above 100 degrees and high humidity has caused one track in the Mid-Atlantic region to cancel its live racing card on Saturday and another to push back its first post time by one hour.

For the second straight Saturday, Delaware Park has called off its live racing because of a heat wave. The National Weather Service has predicted a high temperature of 101 degrees, with a heat index of up to 109, in the Wilmington, Del., area.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Roxy Gap had been entered in Friday’s Royal North prep, an open allowance race for fillies and mares at six furlongs on turf, along with her stablemate Barracks Road. But when Saturday’s overnight saw the light of day Wednesday, there was Roxy Gap, who was entered in the seven-furlong Sweet Briar Too on the main track and will be scratched from Friday’s feature.

The $100,000 Sweet Briar Too, an overnight stakes for fillies and mares, attracted a field of seven with Roxy Gap the horse to beat.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – Sweltering weather played havoc with the holiday plans at Canterbury Park on July 4 with all activities being moved to Saturday, including the wiener dog championships, a hot dog eating contest and the $75,000 Northbound Pride Oaks.

The Northbound Pride will be contested at one mile over the turf course and has a field of six, one fewer runner than the original draw.

Last early in a compact field of five, favored Bailouttheminister ($4.80) made a strong move in the stretch to wear down leader Ain't No Other to score his first stakes victory in the $79,300 Sam J. Whiting Handicap at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif., on Wednesday.

Guam Typhoon made setting  a track record for six furlongs at Colonial Downs look effortless during Wednesday’s $50,000 Chesapeake Stakes.

Sent directly to the front by jockey Daniel Centeno, the 6-year-old Guam Typhoon ($2.60) was hand-ridden to the wire while coasting to a 2 3/4-length victory in track-record time of 1:07.86. The old record of 1:07.97 was set by Immortal Eyes on July 3, 2011.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - A slow pace in the first half of Wednesday’s $150,000 Swaps Stakes at Betfair Hollywood Park gave Blueskiesnrainbows a comfortable one-length lead, but did little to convince jockey Joe Talamo that the race was over.

“We were walking,” Talamo said. “I didn’t know if that was slow enough the way the track has been playing. Not too many horses have been winning on the front.”

MIAMI – An inch was as good as a mile for odds-on favorite Frolic’s Revenge in Wednesday’s $55,000 Sweettrickydancer Stakes at Calder.

After winning her previous start, the Regal Gal, by 17 lengths, Frolic’s Revenge had to dig down deep before grinding out a nose decision over pacesetter Montessa G. in the one-mile Sweettrickydancer. Frolic’s Revenge, a homebred daughter of Vindication, ran down the leader, despite drifting out through the final sixteenth of a mile under jockey Luis Saez.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Get Serious uncorked a vintage effort, holding off the persistent El Commodore by a half-length on Wednesday to capture the Grade 3, $101,000 Red Bank Stakes on the turf at Monmouth Park.

The victory was the first for the 8-year-old gelding since the 2010 Red Bank. In between, the New York-bred career winner of just under $1.1 million fell out of sorts because of a leg infection and a series of softened courses that compromised his front-running style.
On Independence Day, Get Serious boldly proclaimed his comeback.