Slide on Bye and The Cat Who will both shake one of the top turf mares in training, Wasted Tears, when they move back into the allowance ranks for Monday’s featured seventh race at Lone Star Park. The 7 1/2-furlong race drew 12 fillies and mares, including the comebacking Dade Babe, winner of last year’s Grade 3 Pucker Up at Arlington Park.

The allowance is wide open, and it should produce starters for such regional stakes as the $50,000 Ricks Memorial at Remington Park on Sept. 3 and the $100,000 River Cities at Louisiana Downs on Sept. 10.

ELMONT, N.Y. – A year ago, trainer Tony Dutrow trained a New York-bred filly who used her brilliant speed to become a Grade 1 winner in the Ballerina. This year, Dutrow trains a Pennsylvania-bred filly who will try to use a similar running style to win Monday’s Grade 1 Prioress at Belmont Park.

My Bellamy will try the turf for the first time when she heads a full field of 12 Indiana-bred 3-year-old fillies in the $84,000 The Indiana First Lady at Indiana Downs on Tuesday evening.

Trainer Bob Gorham entered Perfectly Candid also, but whether she runs is a day to day decision according to Gorham.

“We ran her in the Florence Henderson prep, and the plan was to run her against older horses, I am just not sure if I want to do that or not.” Gorham said.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Few Kentucky Derby stories have been more compelling in recent years than the one involving General Quarters, but the sequels haven’t been bad, either. Owned and trained by retired high school principal Tom McCarthy, the 5-year-old horse stands a chance to tack on another remarkable tale Sunday when going postward as the 119-pound highweight in the Grade 2, $175,000 Firecracker Handicap, the closing-day feature of the 39-day spring meet at Churchill Downs.

SHAKOPEE, Minn. – With several racing cards at Canterbury Park already lost to the Minnesota state shutdown, Monday’s program was in danger of being canceled as of Saturday afternoon. Canterbury management on Saturday was awaiting a Ramsey County court ruling on a motion presented before Judge Kathleen Gearin on Friday morning that the Minnesota Racing Commission be allowed to remain reopen for business and that racing should be allowed to resume.

The Buckland Stakes nine days ago at Colonial Downs went all wrong for Bopolene. Steadied 3 1/2 furlongs from the finish, Bopolene had to check at the quarter pole. She still lost by only about two lengths to the very decent Supreme and has a chance to beat the boys dropping into Virginia-bred stakes competition in the $50,000 Punch Line on Monday at Colonial.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Harmonious was the top 3-year-old filly on turf in Southern California last year. After winning the Grade 1 American Oaks and finishing second in the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks, she took that form to Kentucky, winning the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup at Keeneland.

Outside of her age group, racing was tougher. She finished a troubled 10th in the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf at Churchill Downs last November.

Trainer Rick Violette two options for the $200,000 Dr. James Penny Memorial Handicap for fillies and mares on the turf on Monday.

One is definite. Gitchee Goomie, winner of the Mt. Vernon Stakes for New York-breds at Belmont Park most recently, will run in the holiday feature at Parx Racing.

She is part of an entry with Trix in the City, who was cross-entered in a race at Presque Isle Downs on Tuesday.

Violette is still going back and forth on where Trix in the City will land.

“I honestly don’t know,” Violette said.

Embur’s Song looks to have found a perfect distance on her favorite type of surface when she faces 11 other older fillies and mares in the $100,000 Windward over the Tapeta at Presque Isle Downs on Tuesday evening.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – The five-time stakes winner Twirling Candy worked seven furlongs in 1:25.20 at Hollywood Park on Saturday, his final workout before he starts as the favorite in the $500,000 Hollywood Gold Cup on July 9.