MIAMI – A year ago, trainer Marty Wolfson sent Icon Project up from her Calder base to dominate Saratoga’s Grade 1 Personal Ensign by 13 lengths. Wolfson will try to do it again next Sunday with Miss Singhsix, who ships up from Calder to face two of the queens of the division, Rachel Alexandra and Life At Ten, in defense of Wolfson’s Personal Ensign title.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Ice Box has shown enough in his last two workouts to convince his trainer, Nick Zito, to give the Kentucky Derby runner-up another shot at the big-time in next Saturday’s $1 million Travers Stakes.

A plan to consolidate the Texas racing calendar in 2011 took another step forward this week when the state’s tracks submitted their dates requests to the Texas Racing Commission. Their proposals are expected to be considered at a meeting Sept. 14.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – A pair of $100,000 sprints headline the Sunday card at Monmouth Park: the Colts Neck Handicap for New Jersey-breds and the Trenton Stakes for fillies and mares.

Unbeaten in two starts in 2010, Evenings End tries to stretch that streak in the Colt’s Neck from the rail against six rivals.

There have been ups and downs for Evenings End along the way, from a foot injury at 2 to an ongoing problem with failing to sweat properly.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. – It’s Dashel vs. Dee’s Rose, round 2, in the featured seventh race at Arlington Park on Sunday, with Dee’s Rose trying to catch a break after two unlucky experiences. The two are rematched in a third-level optional $62,500 claimer scheduled for 5 1/2 furlongs on turf.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Reached by telephone an hour before saddling first-time starter My Southern Star in the second race at Saratoga on Friday, trainer Eddie Kenneally had a right to be focused entirely on racing at the Spa, not at Ellis Park.

Yet he didn’t have any trouble recalling his record at Ellis, though he seemed reluctant to say it aloud, as if doing so might jinx his luck there.

“We’ve run eight horses,” he said. “Seven have won and one ran out of the money.”

AUBURN, Wash. – Not too long ago, Noosa Beach was regarded as a one-trick pony, a sprinter who couldn’t win an important race around two turns. Now, a couple of dominating route victories later, he’ll start as one of the favorites in the Grade 3, $250,000 Longacres Mile on Sunday at Emerald Downs.

DEL MAR, Calif. – This has been trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s year to dominate stakes for statebred females.

U R All That I Am won two such races at Hollywood Park in the spring, while You Lift Me Up won the Work the Crowd Stakes at Golden Gate Fields in March. There is a good chance one of them will win Sunday’s $100,000 Solana Beach Handicap over a mile on turf for California-bred females.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Trainer Graham Motion believes Check the Label continues to improve. If that trend continues, Check the Label’s five opponents in Sunday’s Grade 2, $150,000 Lake Placid Stakes at Saratoga could be in serious trouble.

Check the Label seeks her fourth consecutive graded stakes victory in the Lake Placid, scheduled for 1 1/8 miles on the inner turf, against a field which has yet to win a stakes. Check the Label overcame trouble to win both the Grade 2 Sands Point at Belmont and Grade 3 Virginia Oaks at Colonial Downs.

FORT ERIE, Ontario – When apprentice jockey Brian Cheyne took trainer Lou Capi’s Found the Treasure into the Fort Erie winner’s circle Tuesday evening, it capped an eight-win weekend for him from Aug. 15 to Aug. 17. With four wins Sunday, three Monday, and one the final race of the weekend, Cheyne, 21, gave notice that he will be a force for the rest of the meet.

Cheyne was 20 of 137 at the meet through Thursday but has won 13 of his last 56, a 23 percent win rate.