A one-hour broadcast on NBC-TV featuring live coverage of the Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday had total viewership of 1.18 million people, the network said on Thursday, a figure that exceeded the viewership figure for three of the last five Breeders’ Cup telecasts.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Anne’s Beauty will turn back to her favorite distance of seven furlongs Saturday at Woodbine in the Duchess Stakes, a wide-open $150,000 event for 3-year-old fillies.

The highlight of Anne’s Beauty’s 2-year-old campaign was a fast score over Nina Fever in the seven-furlong Glorious Song Stakes, for which she got an Beyer Speed Figure of 83.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – Morris Bailey is in a hopeful mood these days.

He said he believes Concealed Identity, the gelding he owns in partnership with Linda Gaudet, can outrun his 12-1 morning line odds in the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park.

In the bigger picture, Bailey is sanguine about the prospects of reviving New Jersey racing, now that he is in final stages of a lease negotiation to take control of Monmouth from the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Blinkers have changed Kevlar Kid, who makes his stakes debut in Saturday’s $200,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar.

Before adding the basic piece of equipment, Kevlar Kid had 1 win in 6 starts, and three losses as a favorite. When blinkers were added in the spring, Kevlar Kid won two consecutive optional claimers over 1 1/16 miles at Hollywood Park to earn a spot in the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap, run over the same distance.

The lineup for Saturday night’s 38th running of the $200,000 Pennsylvania Governor’s Cup at Penn National Race Course includes the 2009 winner and a horse who last year was narrowly beaten by eventual Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint champion Chamberlain Bridge in Penn National Race Course’s most prestigious stakes. But all eyes, and the bulk of the betting public’s wagers, will probably be on Maryland shipper Ben’s Cat.

The five-furlong Governor’s Cup is the fifth-race turf feature on a 10-race card that includes two $100,000 stakes and begins earlier than usual at 5:30 p.m. Eastern.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Pow and Silly Fella look like the main players in a first-level allowance race that will serve as Saturday’s feature at Hastings. The 1 1/16-mile race goes as race 6 on the seven-race card.

On Monday, a total of 10 races, including seven stakes restricted to B.C.-breds, have been scheduled for B.C. Cup Day. Since its inception in 1995, B.C. Cup Day has become the biggest day at Hastings in terms of attendance and handle.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse sent out his meet-leading seventh stakes winner here Wednesday evening as Queen Street Beach captured the $125,000 Deputy Minister for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.

Queen Street Beach, a homebred who races for Eugene Melnyk, was running his record to 3 for 3 after beginning his career June 24.

“I think he’s a nice horse,” Casse said. “I was a little concerned. He puts a lot into his races, and it was his third race in five weeks. I think he’ll need a little break after this race.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Chad Brown, whose Zagora figures to be among the favorites in Saturday’s $500,000 Diana, may have summed up the Grade 1 race for fillies and mares best when he said, “It’s an evenly matched field. It’s going to take some racing luck to win. You need to work out a trip.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Summers at Ellis Park are taking Jon Court back to the future. Court is the only jockey to win five straight riding titles at Ellis (1998-2002), and having added another title in 2009, he is threatening to tie the late Leroy Tauzin for a record seventh.

Court rode six winners last weekend at the Henderson, Ky., track, including a 9-1 upset aboard Abuela in the Ellis Park Turf Stakes and a three-win day Sunday. With 12 of 31 days complete, Court trailed Corey Lanerie by a 13-12 count atop the Ellis standings.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Trainer Tom Bush has withdrawn Get Stormy from consideration for Sunday’s Grade 2 Fourstardave at Saratoga. Get Stormy, a two-time Grade 1 winner, would have been the starting highweight under 122 pounds and likely co-choice with Sidney’s Candy in the turf fixture.

“He has a little insult on the outer edge of his right front tendon,” Bush said late Thursday morning. “I don’t know for sure yet what the issue is, it might be nothing, but we have to look at it and be careful so I’m not going to enter him in the race.”