ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Hollywood Hit and Essence Hit Man, probably the two fastest sprinters at Woodbine in terms of raw speed, will clash over six furlongs in the $100,000 King Corrie Stakes on Wednesday night.

Hollywood Hit won last year’s King Corrie Sept. 30, while bettering the six-furlong track record, but he was subsequently disqualified from purse money because of a positive drug test for the tranquilizer acepromazine. That track record was quashed, and Hollywood Hit was barred from racing at Woodbine for three months.

Marquis Downs handled a total of $852,128 for its 28-day meeting this year, for a daily average of $30,434. The corresponding figures last year were $868,657 and $29,994 for a 30-day meeting.

Marquis Downs, located in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, does not export its signal except to several teletheatres.

The average field size, according to Equibase statistics, was 8.31, up from 8.26 in 2009.

Naim Samaroo won 50 races to top the jockey standings. Tim Moccasin ranked second with 37 and Neville Stephenson third with 30.

ELMONT, N.Y. – Handicappers who subscribe to the horse-for-course angle figure to strongly back Karakorum Elektra in Wednesday’s third-level allowance turf feature going six furlongs at Belmont Park.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – While shippers from south of the border and across the ocean won the two Grade 1 turf stakes here at Woodbine on Sunday, a pair of unheralded local entrants came up with the races of their lives in the Woodbine Mile and Northern Dancer.

Woodbourne, who was claimed by Bob Tiller for $50,000 two starts back for The Very Dry Stable, was prominent throughout the $1 million Woodbine Mile and picked up $110,000 after winning a show photo as a 52-1 outsider.

AUBURN, Wash. – The final week of Emerald Downs’s 2010 season includes a few peculiarities. There’s racing Wednesday, the first non-holiday midweek program in several years, and the card begins at 1 p.m. Pacific, a departure from the usual 6 p.m. weekday start time.

POMONA, Calif. – The California 2-year-old division gained a serious player Sunday at Fairplex Park, where Clubhouse Ride overcame adversity to score a 2 1/4-length victory in the $100,495 Barretts Juvenile.

Clubhouse Ride was bumped at the break and away slowly in the 6 1/2-furlong stakes. Jockey Pat Valenzuela turned him loose on the backstretch, Clubhouse Ride raced from seventh to first passing the quarter pole, and won clear. Road Ready finished second, followed by Wealthy Aviator.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Court Vision mowed down The Usual Q.T. in the late stages to take Sunday’s Grade 1, $ 1 million Woodbine Mile.

Court Vision ($16.60) benefited from an astute ride by Robby Albarado, who saved ground through the turn while he and Court Vision raced in 12th in the 13-horse field. Zifzaf set most of the pace, setting fractions of 23.55, 46.53 and 1:10.36, with a host of runners in close proximity, including Grand Adventure and Woodbourne.

ELMONT, N.Y. - A fast pace, a fair-playing turf course, and a patient ride from Ramon Dominguez combined to make Strike the Bell a 1 1/4-length winner of Sunday’s Grade 3, $100,000 Noble Damsel Stakes at Belmont Park.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Starship Angel edged Debonair Darling by a neck Sunday to win in the $75,000 Politely Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park on Sunday.

Trained by Kiaran McLaughlin, Starship Angel covered the 1 1/16 miles over a fast main track in 1:44.79 and paid $7.80 to win.

“I just let her run her race,” said jockey Eddie Castro. “She answered when I asked her and got up at the wire.”

The Politely win was the sixth in 17 starts for Starship Angel, a 4-year-old filly.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Redwood, the favored European invader, overtook 29-1 outsider Fifty Proof in the final sixteenth to capture the Grade 1, $771,600 Northern Dancer Turf at Woodbine Sunday.

Redwood ($5.80) saved ground near the back of the back in the nine-horse field, as Fifty Proof set moderate fractions over a firm course in the 1 1/2-mile event. Redwood loomed into contention on the far turn, and then came inside Fifty Proof through the stretch to score by a half-length in a time of 2:28.97.