The 3-year-old Startin Something will try to make her third attempt against her elders a winning one in the $50,000 Bobby Bricker Memorial at Beulah Park on Saturday. The 1 1/16-mile race is for Ohio-bred fillies and mares.

Trained by Tim Hamm, Startin Something was Ohio's champion 2-year-old filly last season. This year she has faced older fillies and mares at Thistledown in the Classen Memorial April 30, and in her most recent race, which came in an optional claimer Nov. 2.

Elder John tries to make it two straight when he heads a field of eight 2-year-old statebreds in the $50,000 West Virginia Futurity at Charles Town on Saturday.

Deliburnsky goes for his third win in the $75,000 Dave's Friend for 2-year-olds at Laurel on Saturday afternoon.

Trained by Tony Wilson, Deliburnsky has made all his starts at Monmouth Park. He won a maiden event July 25 in front-running style. In his next out, Sept. 3 in the Grade 3 Sapling, Deliburnsky had trouble at the start and was rushed up to contest the pace before giving way in the stretch to finish ninth. In his last race Oct. 29, Deliburnsky won in front-running style again, this time in the $60,000 Jersey Juvenile by six lengths.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - In a battle of impressive debut winners, So Brilliant shined and Empire Way never fired in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hollywood Prevue on Thursday at Hollywood Park.

So Brilliant ($4.80), the favorite, led from virtually start to finish and staved off a slew of late challengers to win the seven-furlong race by a half-length over Brother Francis, who rallied from sixth in the seven-horse field to finish second.

Hodge was another 1 1/4 lengths back in third.

LOUISVILLE, Ky.  - It's hard to believe that Bill Mott sent out 12 losers from his first 19 starters at the Churchill Downs fall meet, because it seems like every time the spotlight came on, the Hall of Fame trainer had the winner.

That remarkable pattern continued Thursday at Churchill when Arena Elvira, trained by Mott and ridden by Junior Alvarado, was along in the final strides to defeat Afleeting Lady by a neck in the 96th running of the Grade 2, $193,725 Falls City Handicap.

NEW ORLEANS – Gantry gave 29-year-old New Orleans native Ron Faucheux his first stakes win as a trainer. He was ridden to victory in the $75,000 Thanksgiving Handicap by Richard Eramia, who was fortunate to escape injury in a spill earlier Thursday.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – A somber Thanksgiving Day at Aqueduct ended on a positive note when Thisskysabeauty overcame a slow start to win the final race, giving former jockey Andrew Lakeman his first win as a trainer/owner.

NEW ORLEANS – Fifty-two horses, headed by Rapid Redux, have been pre-entered in the six Claiming Crown races to be run on Dec. 3 at Fair Grounds, the Claiming Crown’s first year in New Orleans.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Sunrise Smarty set a torrid early pace and then held off the late run of Nathan’s H Q to win Thursday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Fall Highweight Handicap at Aqueduct.

Sunrise Smarty was ridden to victory by Ramon Dominguez, who celebrated his 35th birthday Thursday by winning five races on the card.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Racing in the opening-day Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs, On Fire Baby lived up to the high expectations her connections always had for her, scoring by three-quarters of a length over And Why Not.

With And Why Not not returning in Saturday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Golden Rod Stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Churchill, On Fire Baby’s chances of notching back-to-back victories would seem good − at least until the 10 other fillies in the Golden Rod are evaluated.