Bernie Flint likes to say that he is “on the other side” of his career, which certainly doesn’t mean the 70-year-old New Orleans native is tapped out of training feats. While relieved that the monumental difficulties facing the racing industry nowadays are going to be someone else’s problems before too long, Flint is still plugging away, winning races at a 20 percent rate in 2010 while savoring whatever remaining time he chooses to keep himself in the game.

FORT ERIE, Ontario – Big Red Mike, a front-running winner of Woodbine’s Queen’s Plate on July 4, will be looking to add the second jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown to his portfolio here in Sunday’s Prince of Wales Stakes.

The $500,000 Prince of Wales, a 1 3/16-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds that is the showpiece of the Fort Erie meeting, attracted eight entrants and is scheduled to go postward at 5 p.m. Eastern.

Sunday’s 10-race program also includes a pair of $50,000 turf sprints, the Daryl Wells Sr. Memorial and the Ernie Samuel Memorial.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – La Rocca should be tough as the lone front-runner in Sunday’s $150,000 Ontario Matron Stakes at Woodbine, assuming that Grade 1 winner Hooh Why doesn’t ship in for the 1 1/16-mile route for fillies and mares.

La Rocca captured the 2009 B.C. Oaks at Hastings for trainer Terry Jordan. She wound up third in all three of her starts this year, which were all here on Polytrack.

Back in April, Llano Teller beat American Runaway by a nose in the $596,041 Remington Park Futurity in Oklahoma City. The two colts meet again in Sunday’s $625,000 Rainbow Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, and this time there is much more at stake than a first-place purse.

A New York State Supreme Court judge Friday scheduled a hearing for July 29 to rule on whether the state acted illegally when it disqualified a group that was bidding to operate a planned casino at Aqueduct.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – With her pedigree, Dream in the Dark could make a big impact when she stretches out to a 1 1/16 miles for the first time in Sunday’s feature at Hastings. The $25,000 claiming race for 3-year-old fillies drew seven horses and goes as race 7 on the eight-race card, which begins at 1:40 p.m. Pacific.

Dancing Melody might be stepping up in class after finishing third in a $17,500 claiming race July 10, but the shape of Sunday’s feature at Northlands Park could set up perfectly for her. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for fillies and mares running for a $20,000 claiming price drew five horses and goes as race 5.

The top four finishers in the Pepsi Cola Stakes, perhaps the best stakes race of the Emerald Downs meeting, face off again Sunday in the $50,000 Seattle Slew Handicap. The 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-olds is the final prep for the Emerald Downs Derby on Aug. 15.

Magna International Developments, the parent company of Santa Anita, must sign a lease agreement with the Oak Tree Racing Association for Oak Tree's fall meeting at Santa Anita by Friday afternoon, or risk losing its license to operate Santa Anita, Golden Gate, and the XpressBet account wagering service, the California Horse Racing Board mandated on Thursday.

Officials with Santa Anita and Oak Tree said the deal could be finalized by the deadline, and possibly by the end of business on Thursday.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. − Richard Dutrow Jr. and Todd Pletcher have no qualms with the New York Racing Association’s decision to move the $250,000 Coaching Club American Oaks from Belmont Park to Saratoga. But both trainers, at least this year, would have been quite content if NYRA had left the distance at 1 1/4 miles.