ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Biofuel, Canada’s Horse of the Year and champion 3-year-old filly of 2010, is scheduled to get her new campaign under way here in Friday’s seven-furlong Sweet Briar Too.

The $100,000 Sweet Briar Too, an overnight stakes for fillies and mares, attracted a field of seven that also includes Indian Apple Is, the Sovereign Award winner in last year’s female sprinter category.

“She’s ready to go,” said Reade Baker, who trains Biofuel for owner/breeder Brereton C. Jones.

“She had a little problem, but it disappeared. She’s in great shape.”

LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – Separate Fire’s win in the $1,126,000 Ed Burke Million Futurity at Los Alamitos last Sunday has left owner Jose Trevino and trainer Paul Jones with difficult campaign decisions in coming weeks.

Separate Fire is the undisputed leader of the 2-year-old division at Los Alamitos, having won the Kindergarten Futurity in May. To keep that distinction over the next six months, while trying to earn a championship, Trevino and Jones must balance their desire to race in major futurities but not over-race the filly.

The well-traveled Road Ready is hoping for a happy homecoming Friday when he meets seven rivals in the $50,000 Livermore Valley Wines, a new six-furlong stakes race for 3-year-olds at the Alameda County Fair in Pleasanton, Calif.

A $300,000 Barretts 2-year-old purchase in March 2010, Road Ready did his initial training here before winning the Lost in the Fog at Golden Gate Fields in his debut last year. The More Than Ready colt has been on the road ever since.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – St Liams Halo will likely be favored but he is certainly no cinch in the $50,000 Lieutenant Governors’ at Hastings on Friday.

The 1 1/16-mile feature drew a solid field of nine older horses, and contention appears to run deep. The Lieutenant Governors’ shares the spotlight with the $50,000 Chris Loseth that drew 10 3-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles. First post for the nine-race Canada Day card is 1:50 p.m. Pacific, with the Governors’ and Loseth slotted as the eighth and ninth race.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rusty Arnold will be among the masses Friday night at Churchill Downs, but you probably won’t be able to pick him out of the crowd. Arnold will be wearing a white shirt, which is apropos for the evening: Churchill is calling for a “White Out” theme, with everyone attired in white.

Commanding Ace will be a short-priced favorite when he runs in a $30,000 claiming race that will serve as the feature race on Canada Day at Northlands Park Friday. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds and up drew five horses and goes as the fifth race. Post time for the nine-race holiday card is 1 p.m. Mountain.

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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine’s leading trainer, Mark Casse, will saddle James Street and So Elite in Friday’s $200,000 Dominion Day Stakes, the competitive feature on the nine-race Canada Day holiday card, which begins at 2 p.m.

Golden Stripe, winner of last year’s running of the Canada Day at Assiniboia Downs, will be solidly backed to repeat when she faces seven rivals in Friday’s renewal of the $30,000 stakes for fillies and mares.

The one-mile Canada Day will go as the seventh race on a nine-race card that begins at 1:15 p.m. Central.

Golden Stripe, a Manitoba-bred 5-year-old who races for owner/breeder Phil Kives and is trained by Shelley Brown, had finished a close second in last year’s six-furlong La Verendrye before capturing the Canada Day by 1 3/4 lengths.

Fair Grounds Race Course in New Orleans will host 60 stakes worth $7.5 million during its 2011-2012 meeting, a schedule highlighted by the $1 million Louisiana Derby on April 1, the season’s closing day. The Louisiana Derby has been moved from Saturday to Sunday to fit with college basketball’s Final Four, which will be held at the New Orleans Superdome in 2012. The tournament’s semifinal games are Saturday, the championship game Monday.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas – Wasted Tears, who is the top-ranked turf mare in North America, is scheduled to breeze Thursday at her Lone Star Park base and then head out the next day to Chicago. She is being pointed to the Grade 3, $150,000 Modesty at Arlington on July 9.

“We want to be there a week before the race,” said Bart Evans, who bred, owns, and trains Wasted Tears. “That’s the way I’ve always done it with her. We’ll probably leave here Friday and be there Saturday. I’ll take my time with her hauling her up there. We’ll split the trip up, stop over one night.”