VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Management at Hastings is expecting a large crowd to show up on Monday to watch Mario Gutierrez ride St Liams Halo in the $50,000 Lieutenant Governors for 3-year-olds and up and Devil in Disguise in the $50,000 Chris Loseth for 3-year-olds.

Gutierrez had been one of the top riders at Hastings since he arrived here in 2006. He became a huge celebrity in Vancouver after he made a name for himself across North America by winning the Kentucky Derby and Preakness aboard I’ll Have Another.

AUBURN, Wash. – How fast is Polish Dollar? That will be the key question facing handicappers when they evaluate Saturday’s feature race at Emerald Downs. The eighth event on a nine-race program that begins at 2 p.m. Pacific, the feature – a first-level allowance at 6 1/2 furlongs – attracted five runners, and Polish Dollar is the perplexing wild card.

ELMONT, N.Y. – With a list of past winners that includes Man o’ War, Whirlaway, Assault, Damascus, and Holy Bull, it’s safe to say Saturday’s 95th running of the Dwyer Stakes at Belmont Park didn’t attract a comparatively strong group of 3-year-olds.

Not even close. Collectively, the field of seven has been beaten 76 lengths in six graded stakes attempts, not counting Guyana Star Dweej, who was eased in the Belmont Stakes.

The Dwyer, a Grade 2 worth $200,000 there for the taking, is the 10th of 11 races. Post time is 5:38 p.m. Eastern.

In anticipation of a heat wave approaching the East Coast, Delaware Park has canceled its live racing card scheduled for Saturday.

The National Weather Service had predicted temperatures above 99 degrees with a heat index of 108 for the Wilmington area.

“Racing in such weather would potentially place the health of the horses and riders at risk,” said Dr. John T. Peters, chief commission veterinarian for the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission.

[bc_video_id:255772:]ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It’s a good bet that memories of Keeneland’s 2009 September yearling sale will stick with owner James Miller. Miller bought two horses at the sale: a daughter of Kafwain, for whom he paid $5,500, and a filly by Jump Start, who cost $8,500. The Kafwain filly, Daisy Devine, has earned $764,914 and won the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley Stakes in April. The Jump Start was called Maude S, and after turning in one of the most impressive performances of the Arlington meet May 23, she makes her stakes debut Saturday in the Grade 3, $150,000 Chicago Handicap.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Headed by the top four finishers from last month’s Sheepshead Bay and a pricey import from Europe, a field of six fillies and mares will square off in Saturday’s 69th running of the New York Stakes.

A Grade 2, $200,000 race scheduled for 1 1/4 miles on the inner turf, the New York is carded as the ninth of 11 races and is the second leg of a late pick four with a $350,000 guaranteed pool. Post time is 5:06 p.m.

MIAMI – Awesome Feather, Jackson Bend, and Trinniberg are the latest in a long list of nationally renowned horses who began their careers as 2-year-olds at Calder.

On Saturday, 18 juveniles will take their first major step towards what they hope may eventually be similar success when they start in the first 2-year-old stakes of the local season, the $100,000 Frank Gomez Memorial and its filly counterpart, the $100,000 J J’sdream. Both races will be decided at 5 1/2 furlongs and highlight an outstanding card that also features the $55,000 American Dreamer for 3-year-olds at a mile.

Trainer Jeff Bonde said he felt surrounded after the draw for Saturday’s $50,000-added Alameda County Fillies and Mares Stakes at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton.

Five fillies and mares were entered in Northern California’s first stakes for older fillies and mares − three were from the barn of trainer Jerry Hollendorfer.

“There’s power in numbers,” Bonde said.

And Hollendorfer has all the power in this 1 1/16-mile race.

Ss Poker Face Dream, who has won all three of his starts, will attempt to continue his streak Saturday night in the Grade 2, $101,950 Sires’ Cup Futurity for Quarter Horses at Retama Park. He is part of a 10-horse field that includes Grade 3 winner Rc Had to Be My Day.

Ss Poker Face Dream has won his races by a combined margin of six lengths, his latest a 2 1/4-length romp in his trial for the Sires’ Cup. He rallied from just off the pace, and before that won on the front end in a maiden race and an allowance, both at Sam Houston.

Dreaminofthewin could punch his ticket to the $200,000 Governor’s Cup at Remington Park with the right kind of effort in Saturday’s sixth race at Lone Star Park. He is part of a strong cast for the 1 1/16-mile turf allowance that drew nine horses, including stakes winners Fifteen Love, Heavenville, J J’s Indy, and Capture the Flag.