VANCOUVER, British Columbia - James Quinn's "The Handicapper's Condition Book" should be required reading for everyone who is serious about betting Thoroughbreds. Anyone who has read the book, knows that Burj Dubai is in the wrong race at Hastings on Sunday. He just might be good enough to win the race, however.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Owner-trainer Dennis Manning is still on the fence with respect to running Roman Tiger in next Saturday's $750,000 United Nations Stakes.

The U.N. tops the Independence Day holiday weekend at Monmouth Park, one of the biggest and busiest periods of the meet with four cards Friday through Monday.

The U.N., at 1 3/8 miles on turf, and the $1 million Haskell Invitational are Monmouth's two Grade 1 stakes.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Shane Sellers, who hasn't ridden steadily at Arlington Park since 1993, will move his tack here next week and hopes to begin race-riding Thursday.

Sellers has been based at Delaware Park, where he had ridden 21 winners through Thursday, a total good for sixth in the standings there. He said the chance to partner with new agent Pat Cuccurullo and return to Arlington prompted his move to the Midwest.

"It was an opportunity to get with Pat and to go to Arlington, where I wanted to go in the first place," Sellers said.

MIAMI − Trippi's Sailor is perfect in three starts on grass. Each of those victories came at five furlongs, however, and even her trainer, Steve DiMauro, said he isn't sure what to expect when he stretches Trippi's Sailor out to 1 1/16 miles for the first time in Sunday's $55,000 Noble Robyn overnight stakes at Calder.

MIAMI - What do Omar's Tiger and Sky Venture have in common? Both horses showed speed and faded late behind the graded stakes winner Bim Bam earlier this month in the Lord Juban Stakes and both will return on Saturday's card at Calder in much softer allowance spots.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The King Edward was shortened to one mile this year as part of Woodbine's tinkering with its turf stakes program. Sunday's first edition of the Grade 2, $300,000 King Edward at the new distance certainly won't be short on competitiveness as a field of nine was entered for the race Thursday.

Get Stormy, a Belmont shipper who is riding the crest of a six-race win streak, will attract plenty of attention as he goes postward under jockey Javier Castellano.

In the summer of 2005, after years of resistance, Anthony Bonomo Sr., a casual racing fan, finally relented to his wife's desire to take a trip to Saratoga. So enthralled was he by the experience that before returning to his Long Island home, Bonomo, an insurance attorney, privately purchased two horses and formed Brooklyn Boyz Stables.

WHO'S HOT

Eurico Da Silva made his way back to the top of the rider standings during the week of June 16-20, winning aboard 6 of 24 mounts. He and Patrick Husbands were tied with 52 wins apiece.

Emile Ramsammy was 6 for 28, and Chantal Sutherland was 5 for 26. Two U.S.-based jockeys fared well last weekend: Jeffrey Sanchez was 2 for 4, and Stewart Elliott was 2 for 3.

JERSEY SHORE PARTY

Partyallnightlong posted his second consecutive impressive win last weekend, capturing a first-level allowance sprint for statebreds by 6 1/4 lengths while not being asked to run at any point in the lane. Clearly, he's too good for statebred allowance runners, and trainer Eddie Broome is eager to find out exactly how good he is, so long as the son of Put It Back is ready when the time comes.

WHO'S HOT

New shooter Alex Gonzalez stepped right into the riding colony here as a bug boy and made an impression, winning four times in his first few days since moving south after the recently concluded Golden Gate meeting.

Gonzalez, 18, won 61 races this year at Golden Gate. He is hoping to follow in the footsteps of Martin Garcia and Joel Rosario, who also used Northern California as a springboard to this circuit.