ETOBICOKE, Ontario – The only two non-claiming events on Friday’s Woodbine Racetrack card are both for Ontario-sired runners, and neither of those races contain any world-beaters.

The Bob Tiller-trained Objection Denied should be favored in the third, a five-furlong maiden special for 3-year-olds up.

Objection Denied made all six of his starts in Ontario-sired maiden sprints. He wound up fourth in each of his first two outings at the meet, before ending up second to Don’t Think Twice in a slow six-furlong dash Aug. 18.

STICKNEY, Ill. – Drawn in the two inside posts for the featured sixth race Thursday at Hawthorne are the coupled entry of Down the Road and See I A. Take note of the ownership name on the horses, Midwest Thoroughbreds, because this stable has gone viral.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Opus A, sidelined for 11 months since a remarkable win in the East View Stakes last December, returns in a $44,000 allowance/optional claiming race that serves as the Veterans Day headliner.

Opus A won 2 of 3 starts as a 2-year-old for Rick Violette Jr., her only loss coming in the Grade 1 Spinaway, after which she underwent minor throat surgery.

Racing with blinkers on in the East View, Opus A broke from the far outside post and raced very wide throughout, but she somehow rallied from next-to-last to win going away under Alan Garcia.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Treat Gently, a three-time group or graded stakes winner, will be the lone female in Saturday’s $250,000 Hollywood Turf Cup.

The Grade 1 Turf Cup is run over 1 1/2 miles, which trainer Bill Mott said is an ideal distance for Treat Gently.

“A mile and a half is her trip,” Mott said.

The California Horse Racing Board on Tuesday unanimously approved a waiver that will allow Santa Anita Park to complete the installation of a dirt surface as its main track.

Noble’s Promise could run back in the Nov. 27 Cigar Mile at Aqueduct and/or the Dec. 26 Malibu at Santa Anita following his impressive return to action on the Friday Breeders’ Cup undercard, according to trainer Ken McPeek.

Noble’s Promise, making his first start in nearly five months, won a six-furlong overnight stakes in 1:08.92, while Big Drama won the six-furlong BC Sprint in 1:09.05 the next day.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Battle of Hastings probably won’t race again until the Jan. 9 Fort Lauderdale Handicap at Gulfstream Park after making a successful first run for new trainer Greg Fox in capturing the Grade 3 River City Handicap here last Thursday.

“He’ll move down to Payson Park with our other horses in a couple of weeks,” said Fox, who will have about 15 horses at the south Florida training center. “He ran the race I envisioned he would run, and obviously it’s very gratifying when that happens.”

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The odds are almost impossible, yet Al Stall Jr. probably is going to give them a try. The same blueprint he used to perfection with Blame will be rolled out again if Stall runs Apart as a 3-year-old in the Grade 1 Clark Handicap on Nov. 26 at Churchill Downs.

Last fall, Blame won the Clark in what proved to be a springboard to a wildly successful 4-year-old campaign that ended with his dramatic victory last weekend in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill. Of course, it is a long, long way from the 2010 Clark to the 2011 BC Classic at Churchill.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Caracortado, unraced since finishing seventh in the Preakness Stakes in May, starts in an optional claimer over six furlongs on turf in Thursday’s seventh race at Hollywood Park.

It will not be an easy race for Caracortado, who races for a partnership that includes trainer Mike Machowsky. The field of 11 includes a stakes-winning stablemate in Dance With Gable; Cherokee Heaven, a stakes winner at Santa Anita in January; Stoneside, who was stakes-placed here in July; and the Brazilian stakes winner Lieve.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Rosemary Homeister Jr. is the fifth and most recent woman to ride in the Kentucky Derby, having finished 13th aboard 43-1 shot Supah Blitz in the 2003 running. That was little more than a cameo appearance at Churchill Downs for Homeister, who has been based at a number of East Coast tracks since she began riding professionally more than 18 years ago, but she’s working on changing that.

Homeister has been riding regularly at Churchill for the first time this fall, much to her delight.