The $458,180 Lee Berwick Memorial Futurity is one of seven Louisiana-bred stakes for Quarter Horses that will be run on the closing night card Sunday at Delta Downs. Also on the program is the $100,000 Louisiana Classic, which drew the multiple-stakes-winning mare Jes a Game.

The Lee Berwick, a restricted Grade 1 at 350 yards, is led by Jessalittlecourage. Undefeated in four starts, her wins have come by a combined margin of 4 3/4 quarter lengths. Jessalittlecourage took the Louisiana Lassie Futurity earlier in the meet for trainer Alvin Smith Jr.

Gold Coyote, who through the years has compiled a 7-for-11 record at Lone Star Park, returns to the Grand Prairie surface Sunday for the featured second race. He enters the $40,000 optional claiming sprint at six furlongs off a third-place finish in the $52,000 Route 66 Stakes at Will Rogers on May 7.

Gold Coyote shows several strong works since that race, including five furlongs in 1:00.60 on June 24. Bobby Walker Jr. has the mount for trainer Bret Calhoun. Others set to start include Louisiana Downs shippers Solar Charge and Hollywood Ice.

Pale Blazer has not made a wrong move while racing on the grass, and if he picks up his third straight win Sunday in the featured fifth race at Louisiana Downs, he could be headed to the Grade 3, $350,000 Turf Monster at Parx Racing.

Pale Blazer will start as one of the top choices in a $35,000 optional claimer that carries third-level allowance conditions. To be run at about five furlongs on turf, the race drew a field of seven, including multiple stakes winner John Charles.

Six furlongs is the national standard when it comes to Thoroughbred sprint racing. But the distance may be slightly farther than Immortal Eyes, the morning-line favorite in the $50,000 Chesapeake Stakes on Sunday at Colonial Downs, would prefer to run.

The appropriately named Firecracker and Independence Day are among the three $75,000 stakes on tap Sunday evening at Mountaineer Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – One year older and one shade whiter, gray veteran California Flag will try to prove he is not one step slower when he returns from an eight-month layoff Sunday in the $77,000 Robert K. Kerlan Memorial Handicap at Hollywood Park.

At six furlongs on turf, the Kerlan once would have been a cakewalk for California Flag, whose wicked speed propelled him to six stakes victories including the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint and a 9-for-21 career in which he earned more than $1.1 million.

Soldat, the Fountain of Youth winner, has been taken out of training due to tender feet and will be out indefinitely, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin said.

Soldat, who finished 11th in the Kentucky Derby, was being pointed to next weekend’s Virginia Derby, but instead was sent Kesmarc Farm in Kentucky on Thursday for a vacation of undetermined length.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Boys At Tosconova, last year’s Grade 1 Hopeful winner, arrived at trainer Richard Dutrow Jr.’s Aqueduct barn Friday morning and was expected to go back in training Saturday, exactly one year after he won a maiden race at Belmont by 12 lengths.

Boys At Tosconova has not raced since finishing second to Uncle Mo in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs. Boys At Tosconova was gearing up for a 3-year-old debut in January at Gulfstream Park when Dutrow stopped on him because he didn’t think the horse was moving properly.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – Informed Decision, where are you?

The Jonathan Sheppard-trained female sprint champion journeyed to Arlington Park the last two summers and won the Grade 3 Chicago Handicap as a standout both times. Sunday’s edition of the seven-furlong Polytrack race has no such clarity. Not even close.

ELMONT, N.Y. – The California-based filly Alienation, who ran second in a pair of graded stakes last summer at Saratoga, returns to New York a bigger, stronger filly, according to trainer Bob Baffert. But one thing remains the same: She wants to run as fast as she can for as long as she can.

On Monday, Alienation will try to outsprint five opponents and become a Grade 1 winner in the $250,000 Prioress Stakes, the feature event on a 10-race Fourth of July program at Belmont Park. First post is 1 p.m.