The biggest threat to Okie Ride’s win streak Friday in the $50,000 Silver Goblin at Remington Park appears to be a filly, Gleaming. The horses will battle in the Silver Goblin, a 6 1/2-furlong stakes that highlights a special afternoon card in Oklahoma City.

NEW ORLEANS – A half-share of Willcox Inn, one of the top 3-year-old grass horses of 2011, has been purchased by the Lael Stables of Roy and Gretchen Jackson, Willcox Inn’s trainer, Mike Stidham, said this week at Fair Grounds.

Willcox Inn, stabled recently at Keeneland, has been shipped to California, where he should be a major contender Sunday in the Grade 1 Hollywood Derby.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Kentucky Jockey Club and Golden Rod, the twin 2-year-old stakes that help wind down the Churchill Downs fall meet, long have mirrored each other in grade, purse, and distance. For the Saturday renewals, they also match in field size and competitiveness.

Eleven well-matched 2-year-olds – colts and geldings in the KJC, and fillies in the Golden Rod – will go postward when the Grade 2, $150,000 races are run at 1 1/16 miles as the anchors on the second Stars of Tomorrow card of the 21-day fall meet. All 12 Saturday races are for 2-year-olds.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Roger Laurin can look back on a rich history in the racing game.

The son of Lucien Laurin, of Secretariat fame, Roger Laurin was highly successful in his own right with his numerous major stakes winners, including 2-year-old champion Chief's Crown, winner of the very first Breeders' Cup race in 1984; Numbered Account, the Eclipse Award-winning filly in 1971; and Drumtop, who won the Canadian International here in 1970.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Things are going so well for trainer Richard Dutrow Jr. this month in New York that he’s able to get the morning-line favorite to scratch out of Friday’s Grade 2 Go for Wand Handicap, leaving him with the favorite and horse to beat.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Bear and Rod, an Ontario-sired 2-year-old, should be strongly backed in the eighth race at Woodbine Friday, a six-furlong first-level allowance.

Bear and Rod garnered some action at 6-1 when he debuted in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special for Ontario-sired stock Oct. 16. He vied for the lead and looked the part of a winner, only to get nailed on the wire.

VINTON, La. – Decisive Moment, a Kentucky Derby starter in May who ran the best race of his career last Saturday when he defeated Southern California shippers Hoorayforhollywood and Matto Mondo in the $125,000 Delta Mile at Delta Downs, is being freshened, trainer Juan Arias said. He’ll be vacationing in Ocala, Fla.

“We’re going to take him to the farm and give him a couple of weeks off,” Arias said.

Whose turn will it be to win when six runners line up in Friday’s Grade 3, $100,000 All American at Golden Gate Fields?

The top four contenders have taken turns beating each other, and the other two should be ready for improved efforts in the 1 1/8-mile Tapeta event.

The millionaire Bold Chieftain, Our Nautique, Uh Oh Bango, and Dunmore East have been trading decisions this year. Highway Bandit is making his second start off a layoff, and Skipshot has yet to reach his Grade 2-winning form of 2010.

NEW ORLEANS – Suntracer has raced in the shadow of top 3-year-old grass horses like Treasure Beach and, especially, Willcox Inn much of this season, and the $75,000 Woodchopper Stakes on Friday at Fair Grounds might let the light shine on Suntracer.

Second to Willcox Inn in three six-figure 3-year-old turf stakes this year, and eighth behind winning Treasure Beach in the Grade 1 Secretariat, Suntracer gets class relief and looks like a top contender in Friday’s feature at Fair Grounds.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Not many American stakes have been run continuously since 1875. The Clark Handicap is one of those proud and few. A fall staple for generations, the Clark has ebbed and flowed in terms of importance and prestige, with recent renewals being among the stronger ones.