Peppers Pride began her assault on the New Mexico-bred stakes program back in 2005, when she won the Rio Grande Senorita Futurity during Zia Racing Festival at Ruidoso Downs. Fast-forward to 2010, and her trainer, Joel Marr, is still attacking the program. He will start seven horses on this year's Festival card of 10 stakes for Thoroughbreds and Quarter Horses. Purses for the races total $1.1 million, making Sunday's program one of the richest of the meet at Ruidoso.

DEL MAR, Calif. – The future is always now for Cost of Freedom, the top sprinter in California and the horse to beat in the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes on Sunday at Del Mar.

When he is sharp, like he is now, few can beat Cost of Freedom. As for tomorrow, don’t ask.

“Long-term planning isn’t really for him,” trainer John Sadler said. “If he’s going good, you space his races and hope you are around for the big one.”

The 3-year-old division should have a definitive leader come sundown Sunday.

For the first time in its 43-year history, Sunday’s $1 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park drew the Kentucky Derby winner, Super Saver, and the Preakness winner, Lookin At Lucky. But wait, there’s more. The eight-horse field includes Derby runner-up Ice Box, Preakness runner-up First Dude, as well as the potential rising star Trappe Shot.

“Whoever wins this race moves to the head of the class,” said Kiaran McLaughlin, trainer of Trappe Shot.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – What seemed to be shaping up as a relatively short field for Monday’s Grade 2 Amsterdam grew to 10 3-year-olds when entries were drawn for the 6 1/2-furlong dash Friday.

As expected, Discreetly Mine will top the lineup. Discreetly Mine has won the Grade 3 Jersey Shore and finished second in the Grade 2 Woody Stephens since his 13th-place finish in the Kentucky Derby, and trainer Todd Pletcher is now focused on mapping out a sprint campaign for the homebred during the second half of the season.

“Sprinting might be his niche,” Pletcher said.

OCEANPORT, N.J. – The Grade 3, $200,000 Matchmaker for fillies and mares on the turf looks like one of the outstanding betting races on the Haskell Day card Sunday at Monmouth Park. A very strong case can made for six of the 11 runners in the 1 1/8-mile race.

Tizaqueena will be making her fourth straight appearance in a graded stakes. She won the Grade 3 Arlington Matron before running third most recently in the All Along at Colonial Downs.

Cherokee Queen was a dominant winner most recently in the $200,000 Dr. Penny Memorial at Philadelphia Park.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Unrivaled Belle already has the distinction of defeating Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra earlier this year. What she still doesn’t have is a Grade 1 win on her r é sum é .

DEL MAR, Calif. − Jockey Tyler Baze is scheduled to have cosmetic surgery this week to stabilize a fractured bone near his right eye, and he is aiming to return to riding at Santa Anita in late September at the latest, according to his agent, Vic Stauffer.

Stauffer said the procedure, tentatively scheduled for Tuesday or Wednesday, will be designed to aid healing by placing a piece of mesh near the fractured bone that will “stabilize the area under the eye.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Spaghetti Mouse drew post position 4 for the $50,000 B.C. Cup Classic, which will headline seven stakes restricted to B.C.-breds at Hastings Monday. The 10-race B.C. Cup Day card will begin at 1:40 p.m.

The 1 1/8-mile feature drew five horses, including its 2009, winner Krazy Koffee, who drew post 3.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – A decision on whether Zenyatta will start in the $300,000 Clement Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on Aug. 7 will be made before entries are due on Wednesday, and indications are that the undefeated two-time champion will start in that Grade 1 race.

Friday at Hollywood Park, Zenyatta worked six furlongs in 1:13.60 under jockey Mike Smith, a workout designed to have her ready for the Clement Hirsch, which is run over 1 1/16 miles. Furthermore, trainer John Shirreffs said there are few other races in the near future that are suitable for Zenyatta’s 18th career start.

OCEANPORT, N.J. − After a bid for Grade 1 glory in the United Nations Stakes, Get Serious finds himself in a more realistic spot Sunday in the Grade 3, $200,000 Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth Park.

A 1 1/8-mile race, the Oceanport tops the Haskell Day undercard and will be part of a live, one-hour telecast on ABC that begins at 5 p.m. The 11th race on the 14-race card, the Oceanport kicks off a $250,000 guaranteed pick four, which includes the Haskell.