DEL MAR, Calif. - The $12,500 claim of Lordgivemealift from Saturday’s 10th race was voided by Del Mar stewards on Sunday because trainer Jeff Metz submitted three claims in the race, on his behalf or as agent for another trainer.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jenny’s So Great got back to what she did best here on Monday and rewarded her connections with her first graded stakes victory in the $181,200 Royal North.

“She’s really only now found her stride,” said Greg De Gannes, who trains Jenny’s So Great for owners Bill and Vicki Poston. “She wants to be a sprinter on the turf.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The first two legs of the Canadian Triple Crown, Woodbine’s Queen’s Plate and Fort Erie’s Prince of Wales Stakes, are preceded by ceremonial draws and take place amidst much fanfare. But the Breeders’, in a year such as this when there is no possibility of a Canadian Triple Crown winner, is a poor cousin and will simply be part of the regular Thursday afternoon draw at the race office.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Jomelo heads a promising group of 2-year-olds in Thursday’s seventh race at Woodbine, a maiden special scheduled for six furlongs on the grass.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Even-money favorite Almost Time came from well off the pace to score a convincing win over Trick of the North in the $50,000 B.C. Cup Classic at Hastings Monday. The Classic headlined a 10-race card that featured seven $50,000 stakes races restricted to B.C.-breds.

Notoriously upset Summer Song in the $50,000 Madamoiselle for fillies and mares at Northlands Park on Monday. She paid $14.40 to win.

Hammers Bullet, prominent throughout, ran down the pacesetting Big Blue Caboose for a three-quarter-length victory in Monday's $75,000 Manitoba Derby at Assiniboia Downs.

Trained by Clary Brinson, Hammers Bullet had checked in from Minnesota to finish third in the six-furlong Golden Boy and returned to capture the 1 1/16-mile Harry Jeffrey, which is the major local prep for the 1 1/8-mile Manitoba Derby for 3-year-olds.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Business is up slightly at the current Saratoga meet when compared with the first 10 days of the 2010 season.

Attendance for the first 10 days was 201,400, up 1.3 percent from 198,857 last year. That included a Sunday giveaway announced crowd of 40,974 compared with a Thursday giveaway crowd of 29,697 during the same 10-day span in 2010.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Jenny's So Great was last exiting the turn in Monday's Grade 3 Royal North Stakes at Woodbine, but the seas parted for her in the stretch, and she won the six-furlong turf dash with a furious kick.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though Caleb’s Posse won two stakes going a route of ground this year, trainer Donnie Von Hemel came to the conclusion that if the 3-year-old colt was going to continue to have success in graded stakes it would be at shorter distances.