SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Daveron, an impressive winner of the Grade 2 Ballston Spa Stakes here Saturday, will likely have one more race before she is retired, owner Barry Irwin of Team Valor International indicated in a press release.

Daveron, a filly who benefits from time between races, would likely make that start in the Grade 1, $350,000 First Lady going a mile at Keeneland on Oct. 8 or the Grade 1, $250,000 Yellow Ribbon at Santa Anita going 1 1/4 miles Oct. 1.

Trainer Graham Motion said Monday that the First Lady might be the more logical of those two spots.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Caleb’s Posse, who nipped Uncle Mo right at the wire to add the Grade 1 King’s Bishop to his easy victory earlier this summer in the Grade 2 Amsterdam, wasted little time getting out of town. Trainer Donnie Von Hemel put his 3-year-old sprint star on a van to Arlington Park at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, getting on the road before the brunt of Hurricane Irene passed through the area later that day.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – P. S. Touch Down will appreciate the considerably easier company she will be facing when she drops into a first-level allowance race that will serves as Wednesday’s feature at Hastings. The 1 1/16-mile race for fillies and mares drew eight horses and will go as race 7 on the eight-race card that begins at 3:20 p.m. Pacific.

AUBURN, Wash. – The speedy Chu and I, making his first start at a route distance, went directly to the front and led past every pole to win the $39,600 WTBOA Lads Stakes on Saturday at Emerald Downs.

With his third victory in four starts, Chu and I inched closer to honors as Emerald’s top 2-year-old, with the season-ending Gottstein Futurity on Sept. 25 the only remaining stakes event on the calendar. The You and I gelding, a homebred for Mike and Amy Feuerborn of Maple Valley, Wash., earned $21,780, increasing his bankroll to $50,539.

AUBURN, Wash. – Sweet Saga raced to an upset victory in the $45,000 Barbara Shinpoch Stakes on Sunday at Emerald Downs, moving from the maiden ranks to the head of the 2-year-old filly division in less than 97 seconds. Leaving five rivals in her wake following a powerful rally through the turn and stretch, Sweet Saga ran one mile in 1:36.97 and paid $21.

DEL MAR, Calif. – By virtue of his victory in the Grade 1, $1 million Pacific Classic on Sunday here at Del Mar, Acclamation earned an automatic berth in the $5 million Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 5 at Churchill Downs. But the chances of him running in that race are remote.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Six months later than intended, there may be a big race at Churchill Downs for The Factor.

Derailed from a potential start in the Kentucky Derby because of a hairline fracture of a hind ankle, The Factor returned from a four-month layoff to win Sunday’s Grade 1 Pat O’Brien Stakes for sprinters at Del Mar. The win left co-owner George Bolton hopeful that The Factor can start in a Breeders’ Cup race at Churchill Downs in November – the Sprint over six furlongs or the Dirt Mile, run around one turn.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Ontrack attendance soared, but all-sources handle was down to its lowest level in more than a decade on Sunday’s Pacific Classic program at Del Mar compared with the corresponding day in 2010.

Sunday’s ontrack attendance was 29,267, a gain of 23 percent from the 23,678 who attended the 2010 Pacific Classic, which was run on a Saturday. This year’s attendance figure was boosted to some extent by a sports-bag giveaway.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The pick six at Del Mar on Wednesday begins with a carryover of $341,252 and is likely to draw a pool in excess of $2 million.

Big numbers do not stop there.

To win the jackpot wager, players must sift through entries that feature full fields in five races and a group of nine fillies in the $100,000 Generous Portion Stakes for statebred 2-year-old sprinters.

Jockey Richard Gilliard remained in critical condition Monday in a medically induced coma at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Indianapolis after sustaining severe head trauma and multiple limb fractures in a spill after the last race at Hoosier Park last Tuesday. Gilliard is “progressing,” according to his sister, Regina Gilliard.

The 27 year-old Gilliard was aboard MCM He Be a Zoomin when that 2-year-old Quarter Horse veered into the rail at the paddock gap, throwing Gilliard into the rail as well.