Freaky, the 2009 Quarter Horse World Champion, is the most prominent of 14 entrants in two time trials on Saturday that will complete the field for the $750,000 Champion of Champions at Los Alamitos on Dec. 10.

But the 6-year-old Freaky will start after a recent controversy.

Freaky won the Grade 1 Go Man Go Handicap at Los Alamitos on Sept. 11 for his first major win of 2011, but was subsequently disqualified for testing in excess of the permitted level of the bronchial dilator clenbuterol.

PHOENIX – Forest Mouse’s dominance on the Turf Paradise grass course got knocked back a bit when he took his perfect 3-for-3 mark into the Oct. 29 Walter R. Cluer Memorial at the Phoenix track only to finish fourth. He looks to re-establish himself in Saturday’s $35,000 Jack Coady Sr., a one-mile grass event for 3-year-olds that drew a field of eight.

Earlier on the card, seven 3-year-old fillies will knock heads going a mile on grass in the $35,000 Chandler Stakes.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The 2012 season essentially starts on Saturday for Sanagas, the 5-year-old gelding who makes his Grade 1 debut in the $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup at Hollywood Park.

Trainer Graham Motion has shipped Sanagas from his base in Maryland to California with the expectation that the Turf Cup can be the end of a season that already includes two stakes wins. A victory on Saturday would raise Sanagas’s presence in a national turf division desperately in need of quality and consistent performers.

Bluegrass Atatude may have thrown a clunker when she was beaten almost 15 lengths at 8-5 odds in her turf debut 3 1/2 weeks ago. But her previous dirt form and a recent five-furlong bullet workout over Laurel Park’s main track stamp her a serious contender in Saturday’s $75,000 Smart Halo Stakes for 2-year-old Maryland-bred fillies.

Trained by John Salzman Jr., Bluegrass Atatude is the lone stakes winner in a field of nine going six furlongs on the main track.

Drill will be the most accomplished horse to ever start in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Downs Jackpot on Saturday, but despite the presence of a Grade 1 winner the race looks far from lopsided. Drill is looking to rebound from a 10th-place finish in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile and has nine developing 2-year-olds to fend off in the Jackpot.

Recent millionaire Russell Road heads a group of three last-out stakes winners from last month’s West Virginia Breeders’ Classic program entered in Saturday night’s $50,000 A Huevo Stakes for West Virginia-breds at Charles Town.

In addition to Russell Road, who surpassed the $1 million mark in career earnings by taking his 14th stakes in the $450,000 Classic, the field for the 1 1/8-mile A Huevo includes Pagan Cat, who outran his 19-1 odds to take the seven-furlong Onion Juice, and Golden Set, winner of the seven-furlong West Virginia Lottery for 3-year-olds.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Essence Hit Man probably is the quickest horse on the grounds through the opening furlongs.

And although Essence Hit Man has not made his speed stand up since opening the Woodbine meeting with a victory in the six-furlong Jacques Cartier, his trainer, Audre Cappuccitti, has been doing some tinkering and will be looking to reverse that trend in Saturday’s six-furlong Kennedy Road.

“We’ll try to change some equipment,” said Cappuccitti, who sent out Essence Hit Man to breeze four furlongs in 48.20 seconds here last Sunday under jockey Jesse Campbell.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Athena Rose, fresh off her maiden victory, won her stakes debut at 18-1 in the $150,000 Jammed Lovely on Wednesday night at Woodbine.

Athena Rose tracked the headstrong leader Weekend Romance along the inside in the seven-furlong sprint before joining her on the lead on the turn. Athena Rose began to draw away early in the stretch, and then held off a charging Wonderfully to score by a neck in 1:23.46. Weekend Romance, the 7-10 favorite, finished another two lengths back in third in the six-horse field of Ontario-bred 3-year-old fillies.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – For the sixth time in the last seven racing days, no one hit the pick six at Aqueduct on Wednesday, resulting in a three-day carryover of $237,446. [Get PPs, race-by-race analysis.]

Since Sunday, Nov. 6, only two winning pick-six tickets have been sold, each of them worth $246,256 in a previous triple carryover situation last Friday.

Empire Way’s flashy maiden race win Sunday could lead to a start in the $750,000 CashCall Futurity on Dec. 17.

Trainer Mike Harrington said the come-from-behind style of Empire Way’s win in his career debut makes the Grade 1 CashCall Futurity over 1 1/16 miles a viable option.

“I’m going to be fairly ambitious,” he said. “I’m looking at the CashCall Futurity. If he doesn’t make it, I’ve got plenty of options.”