ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Hollywood Hit, last year’s Canadian champion sprinter, heads an accomplished nine-horse field Wednesday night in the $150,000 Bold Venture Stakes at Woodbine.

Hollywood Hit posted three wins from five starts in 2010. He wound up second in both of his losses, in the Bold Venture and the Grade 3 Phoenix at Keeneland.

Hollywood Hit was a distant fourth after tracking the rapid Essence Hit Man following a seven-month layoff in the May 8 Vigil, a seven-furlong stakes that he won in track-record time last year.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Mark Casse had a rather disappointing Sunday at Fort Erie when Hippolytus, the gelding whom he had sent out for a second-place finish in the Queen’s Plate, failed to build on that effort when fourth in the Prince of Wales.

But things went well enough on the home front in a pair of stakes last weekend as Clement Rock gave Casse his sixth stakes win of the meeting in Saturday’s Toronto Cup and Dene Court and Quality Miss produced a 2-4 finish in Sunday’s Shady Well.

A well-matched field of older horses running in a $22,000 claiming race will serve as Wednesday’s feature at Northlands Park. The 1 1/16-mile race drew six horses, and it is hard to identify a clear favorite.

Trainer Ron Grieves has a solid one-two punch with Alarico and Major Temper who are stepping up after finishing first and second in a $17,500 claiming race July 2. They will run a separate betting interests.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Jockey Joel Rosario, Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert, and owner Ron Valenta’s La Canada Stable continued the domination of their respective categories at the Hollywood Park spring-summer meeting that ended on Sunday.

Rosario won his third consecutive riding title in Southern California, and fifth title at the last six meetings.

Racetracks and off-track betting locations in California will be able to import 18 more simulcast races each day from out-of-state tracks under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.

The bill raises the limit on out-of-state simulcasts from 32 to 50. Racetracks and off-track sites had lobbied for the increase, in part because account-wagering companies that take bets from California bettors are not limited in the number of simulcast races they can offer, putting the bricks-and-mortar sites at a disadvantage.

Catlaunch passed the $1 million dollar mark in career earnings with a wire-to-wire 3 3/4-length victory in the $50,000 George Lewis Memorial Stakes at Thistledown on Saturday. Busha chased the winner all the way and finished second in the 1 1/8-mile race for Ohio-breds, a nose in front of Raise the Reward.

A 10-year-old gelding by Noble Cat out of Skilaunch, Catlaunch is a perfect 4 for 4 in stakes this season and boosted his career earnings to $1,011,844.

The last Ohio-bred millionaire was Harlan’s Holiday.

AUBURN, Wash. – You Me and Ema B atoned for a last-place finish in her previous start with a handy victory Saturday in the $50,000 Boeing Handicap at Emerald Downs. It was the fourth victory in five career starts for You Me and Ema B, a 4-year-old filly owned and trained by Margo Lloyd and ridden by Deborah Hoonan-Trujillo.

AUBURN, Wash. – Carrabelle Harbor, the leading 2-year-old filly at Emerald Downs in 2010, pushed her way to the top of the 3-year-old filly division with a hard-fought victory Sunday in the $50,000 Kent Handicap. Carrabelle Harbor ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:42.73 on a track labeled wet-fast to defeat 4-5 favorite Class Included by a length. She paid $15.

AUBURN, Wash. – Zayda, elevated to first via disqualification in his previous start, didn’t need any help from the Emerald Downs stewards on Sunday. Well handled by jockey Leslie Mawing, Zayda rallied from last place in a 12-horse field to win the $50,000 Seattle Slew Handicap by 2 1/4 lengths over 2-1 favorite Couldabenthewhisky, who had a troubled trip and finished second.

Usually, the battle for leading rider at a particular race meet is rather mundane and often is decided long before the last race is run.

But the leading rider at the Belmont spring/summer meet wasn’t decided until the last sixteenth of Sunday’s nightcap and the 526th race run at the meet, when Ramon Dominguez guided Aprilymayjune past Javier Castellano and Ms Diller to win by 1 1/4 lengths. The victory gave Dominguez his 71st win of the meet, two more than Castellano. Had Ms Diller won, Dominguez and Castellano would have tied at 70 wins apiece.