LOUISVILLE, Ky. – When the Kentucky Derby is run next May, it will have been 20 years since Hall of Fame trainer Nick Zito won his first with Strike the Gold. It’s far too early to tell if Zito will be able to celebrate by returning with a legitimate contender for the 137th Derby, but it would not seem a huge upset if a colt named Dialed In is here to represent him and longtime client Robert LaPenta.

After making her first three starts on the Golden Gate Tapeta surface, Seismic Speed may reveal her hole card in the fifth race there Wednesday. Seismic Speed makes her grass debut in the one-mile maiden special weight race for 2-year-old fillies, and as a daughter of a turf stakes winner, she is bred to excel on the surface.

Trainer Ben Root wouldn’t mind if lightning struck again in Wednesday’s $15,000 Dennis Dodge Memorial at Portland Meadows.

He sends out Shamundi, an Oct. 20 debut winner, against six rivals in the 5 1/2-furlong race for 2-year-olds. It’s the same pattern as last year, when he won the race with Smoken Sham, a debut winner who was also making his second start.

Root said the race holds significance for him beyond the purse and stakes prestige.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Barracks Road takes a noteworthy drop in class for Wednesday’s $150,000 Jammed Lovely Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack and should be the prohibitive favorite in the seven-furlong sprint for Ontario-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Barracks Road seemingly found her calling on the grass last summer, when she captured two one-mile stakes in front-running style, the Ontario Damsel and the Ontario Colleen.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Dan Peitz still has his Arkansas accent despite spending the better part of the last 30 years in New York, first as an assistant under Joe Cantey before opening a public stable in 1987. Mostly for family reasons, Peitz decided last winter to return to his roots, and now his annual circuit consists of Oaklawn Park in the winter, Arlington Park in the summer, and Keeneland and Churchill Downs in the spring and fall.

“My parents live in Hot Springs, and they’re not getting any younger,” said Peitz, 53. “It was the best decision for me.”

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Sister Dawn survived an early pace duel with Holding Her Ground and turned back a stretch bid from favored Mother Ruth to score a gutsy victory on Sunday in the $62,000 Playa Del Rey Stakes for female sprinters at Hollywood Park.

Sister Dawn ($16.40) proved best by a neck over Mother Ruth in 1:09.94 for six furlongs. Silver Swallow was third.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario — Anne’s Beauty wore down Kentucky shipper Nina Fever in the final furlong to take the $150,400 Glorious Song Stakes at 14-1 Sunday at Woodbine Racetrack.

Nina Fever, the 4-5 favorite in the seven-furlong sprint 2-year-old fillies, set wind-aided fractions of 22.59 and 44.91 seconds, while being pressed by a sharp Street Prize.

In a battle between two Maryland-based fillies, Her Smile made a four-wide move under Luis Garcia to wrest the lead from Table Talking and gradually edged clear to win the second of two stakes Sunday at Parx Racing restricted to 2-year-olds who spent at least 90 days prior to June 30 in South Carolina..

Smiles Ahead and Miss Kipling both delivered as 1-5 favorites in Saturday night’s two divisions of the $50,000 Oklahoma Stallion Stakes for 2-year-olds at Remington Park.

Smiles Ahead ($2.40) won the third stakes race of his career in the Stallion Stakes, when he stalked the pace in third and darted clear by 4 ¾ lengths. Ken Shino was aboard the winner, who covered six furlongs in 1:11.40.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Bodacious Dash edged American Runaway by a head in Saturday night’s Grade 1, $1,036,612 Texas Classic Quarter Horse Futurity to put an exclamation point on the breakout season his 22-year-old trainer, Trey Wood, has had at Lone Star Park.

“This is the icing on the cake,” said Wood.