SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Forget the notion that big races always draw small, select fields. With 11 seasoned runners in the field, Saturday’s Grade 1, $250,000 Forego at Saratoga has quality and quantity.

The group of sprinters ready for the seven-furlong supporting feature to the Woodward Stakes starts with Bribon and Vineyard Haven closest to the rail and Checklist and You and I Forever furthest out. In between are Girolamo, Big Drama, Here Comes Ben, Charitable Man, Omniscient, Starforaday, and Warrior’s Reward.

Saturday’s $75,000 Governor’s Buckeye Cup Stakes at Thistledown looks like a walk in the park for Catlaunch, who will face six Ohio-bred rivals going 1 1/4 miles.

Catlaunch, a 9-year-old multiple stakes winner, will be competing in the Buckeye Cup for the fourth straight year. He won in 2007 and then dropped two close photo decisions to Smarmy, who is running in the race again this year.

Catlaunch, who has won 32 of 79 starts and $793,544, is a two-time stakes winner from seven starts this season. He should have little problem dictating the pace from start to finish.

AUBURN, Wash. – Seattle Game goes for her third straight win when she headlines Saturday’s featured eighth race at Emerald Downs, a $10,000 claimer for fillies and mares at 6 1/2 furlongs.

Nine horses are entered, and it’s a consistent group − the field has combined for 11 wins, nine seconds, and 13 thirds in 49 starts at the meeting, and four are coming off a victory.

DEL MAR, Calif. – Wickedly Perfect’s accomplishments this summer, going unbeaten in two starts and winning her stakes debut, have been a bonus to trainer Doug O’Neill.

Earlier this year, O’Neill thought Wickedly Perfect would need longer races in the fall to show her best form. Instead, Wickedly Perfect won her debut over five furlongs at Hollywood Park in June and her stakes debut in the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes over 6 1/2 furlongs at Del Mar on Aug. 6, victories that will make her the favorite for Saturday’s $250,000 Darley Debutante at Del Mar.

Jockey Christian Santiago Reyes will appeal a 10-day suspension for causing interference in a race that led to another rider being unseated at Del Mar on Aug. 29, Reyes’s attorney, Bing Bush, said on Thursday.

The appeal means that Reyes, the champion apprentice jockey of 2009, has 28 days of suspensions accrued since mid-May that are in various stages of appeal.

MIAMI – Are the leaders of the 3-year-old filly turf division better than their older counterparts stabled in south Florida this summer? That question will be answered Saturday, weather permitting, when most of the top members of both groups converge at Calder in the $55,000 Ms Brookski Stakes scheduled for 7 1/2 furlongs on the grass.

Zenyatta zipped five furlongs in 1:00.20 at Hollywood Park on Thursday, her second workout since she extended her unbeaten streak to 18 races in the Grade 1 Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 7.

Regular rider Mike Smith was aboard Zenyatta for Thursday’s workout, which was the fastest of 11 recorded works at the distance.

“She was ready to do something,” Smith said. “She was on her toes. I just let her go along.”

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Indian Apple Is managed to upset champion Tribal Belle when they met last in the July 1 Sweet Briar Too Stakes, and they will clash again over seven furlongs Saturday at Woodbine in the $150,000 Seaway Stakes.

Indian Apple Is was victorious second time out this year, in a third-level allowance/optional claimer. She tried a route of ground for the first time May 29, in a 1 1/16-mile allowance, and wound up fourth behind Tasty Temptation.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Todd Pletcher says the success or failure of Quality Road in Saturday’s Grade 1 Woodward Stakes won’t impact how he views the sensational summer he has enjoyed at Saratoga. Still, anything less than a victory by Quality Road in the $750,000 Woodward would have to be viewed not only as a tremendous upset but a major disappointment.

Gulfstream Park in Florida plans to install lights at the track prior to the opening of the 2011 meet in early January, despite a law that prohibits Thoroughbred tracks from running a race after 7 p.m., the chief executive of Gulfstream’s parent company, MI Developments, said Thursday.

Dennis Mills said that MI Developments is in the midst of taking bids on the project, which would allow Gulfstream to hold night-racing cards if the law prohibiting night-time Thoroughbred racing is changed. No Thoroughbred track in the state currently has lights.