DEL MAR, Calif. - Last year, Magical Fantasy was sent off at 43-1 when she pulled an upset in the Del Mar Oaks for trainer Paddy Gallagher. This year, backers of two fillies trained by Gallagher - Lexlenos and Starlarks - will have to settle for shorter prices.

Starlarks won her first stakes in an 11-1 upset in the Grade 2 San Clemente Handicap over a mile on the grass here on Aug. 1. Lexlenos was third at 63-1 in the American Oaks at Hollywood Park on July 5, but will be a fraction of those odds in Saturday's $350,000 Del Mar Oaks, which is run over 1 1/8 miles on turf.

Some horseplayers will stop cold on Costa de Oro when looking over Friday night's eighth race at Remington Park - and not just because the undefeated 3-year-old is a top contender in the first-level allowance. Costa de Oro will be jockey Dale Cordova's first mount since 1998.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Under a double draw system used to determine post positions for Saturday's Grade 3, $300,000 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park, trainer John Ross on Wednesday used the first pick to select post 5 for Stylish Citizen, the 8-5 morning-line favorite. Invaders will take most of the action in the 1 3/8-mile race, which is the highlight of the Northlands racing season. A full field of 12 was entered.

Whistle Pig will try to continue his dominance over the Presque Isle Downs Tapeta surface Friday evening in the $75,000 Leemat, a 6 1/2-furlong sprint for Pennsylvania-breds. Whistle Pig is 5 for 7 at Presque Isle in his career.

Trained by Andrew Carter, Whistle Pig has bankrolled nearly $600,000 and is owned by the HACK Stable. Although the 5-year-old gelding is based at Philadelphia Park, he has been at Presque Isle for the last three weeks, according to racing secretary Dave Frizzell.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Not Bourbon, Canada's champion 3-year-old male and winner of the 2008 Queen's Plate, will not make it to the races this season.

Scratched from his scheduled first start of the year in the open Bold Venture on July 19 to await the restricted Shepperton here at Woodbine on Aug. 5, Not Bourbon was not right on the morning entries were taken.

While initially the injury was believed to have been minor, Not Bourbon did not come around and extensive testing was undertaken.

Jockey Shane Sellers has won 24 races a month and a half into his comeback, the most notable coming last Saturday at Louisiana Downs. He was aboard Uno Mas in the $100,000 Prelude, the local prep for the Grade 2, $750,000 Super Derby. With the win, Sellers improved his mount earnings to $570,763 from 111 starts since returning July 2 from a layoff of more than four years.

Jockey Deshawn Parker rode his 3,000th winner Monday night, in the first race at Mountaineer Park aboard Wildcat Girl ($5.40) in a 4 1/2-furlong turf dash for trainer Doug Shanyfelt. Parker, 38, rode his first winner at Thistledown in 1998.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Steve Hobby had never even started a horse in the state of New York before Telling, a 33-1 shot, ran in the Sword Dancer Handicap late Saturday afternoon.

"I hate to go back again," Hobby quipped. "I'm undefeated at Saratoga."

Undefeated, and in a somewhat unbelievable fashion. Telling, a 5-year-old A.P. Indy horse culled from the Darley Stable in 2007, had lost his first five starts of 2009, and was winless in more than a year. He had never won a stakes race of any kind, much less a Grade 1 on a major circuit.

MIAMI - Just about any 2-year-old on the Calder grounds who has shown a hint of ability this summer appears to be headed for one of the six stakes on the rich Juvenile Showcase card on Aug. 29.

DEL MAR, Calif. - For a horse who has run just five times, Internallyflawless has had a star-crossed career. She defeated maidens so impressively in her turf debut at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting last fall that she was entered in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, but she failed to get in from the also-eligible list. She then turned in a strong effort finishing second in the Miesque Stakes at Hollywood Park, but after a poor try as the odds-on favorite in the Blue Norther at Santa Anita in December, she went into a funk.