MIAMI - The key number for Saturday's 12-race program at Calder is four. As in four prep races for the track's marquee event, the Summit of Speed on July 11. And the mere four starters who will go postward in the $100,000 Unbridled Stakes, the final major local tune-up for the Grade 2 Carry Back Stakes on the Summit of Speed card.

AUBURN, Wash. - Fast times have been synonymous with Northwest racing for decades, so eyebrows were arched only slightly Saturday after Atta Boy Roy blazed six furlongs in 1:07.40. More important than tying the track record or making headlines, Atta Boy Roy stamped himself as a legitimate contender for the Grade 3, $300,000 Longacres Mile, Emerald Downs's richest race.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Handicappers who are conscious of track bias had to be on their toes last Thursday at Woodbine, when the majority of the winners came from the inside part of the track. It was a stark contrast from the previous night, when a strong outside bias existed on the quirky Polytrack.

The first three races on this Thursday's card are all maiden events on Polytrack, and handicappers should cover several bases in the early pick three, in case a bias exits.

The California Authority of Racing Fairs has released a schedule of 21 stakes worth a total of $1,075,000 for the upcoming Northern California fair season, which opens next Thursday at Stockton.

The fair season runs all summer and into October, with meetings at Stockton, Pleasanton, Vallejo, Santa Rosa, Ferndale, Sacramento, Fresno, and two separate meets at Golden Gate Fields. Bay Meadows, which traditionally ran a fair meet in August, closed last year.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - On Sunday, the Toronto Thoroughbred Racing Club will honor Michael's Bad Boy as its claimer of the year for 2008 at its annual awards day.

Michael's Bad Boy certainly fits the criteria for the group's signature honor, having won 4 of the 6 starts that he made for claiming prices last year.

But Michael's Bad Boy also is a timely honoree as he has taken his game to a new level and ran his record to 3 for 3 this season with an emphatic front-running win in last Saturday's $125,000 Steady Growth.

Trainer Michelle Lovell on Saturday will be balancing stakes starters at her home base of Louisiana Downs and her old stomping grounds of Calder Race Course. She is set to run Going to the Sun in the $100,000 Leave Me Alone at Calder and Gold Wonder in the $50,000 Barksdale at Louisiana Downs.

"It's going to be a real exciting weekend," she said.

The upcoming Alameda County Fair at Pleasanton will benefit from the comebacks of a pair of stakes winners last week. The Pleasanton meet opens July 1. It is the second meet on the California fair circuit, following Stockton, which opens next Thursday, June 18.

Trainer Roger Hansen brought ace sprinter Tribesman back to the races after an eight-month vacation with a victory in a six-furlong allowance race at Golden Gate Fields last Friday, and said the six-furlong Sam Whiting Handicap on July 18 at Pleasanton would be the horse's next likely start.

Dunkirk emerged from his game second-place finish in Saturday's Belmont Stakes with a non-displaced condylar fracture in his left hind cannon bone and will most likely miss the remainder of his 3-year-old season, his connections announced Tuesday.

Dunkirk was to undergo surgery Tuesday at the recently opened Ruffian Equine Medical Center - across the street from Belmont Park - where Dr. Patricia Hogan was to insert one screw to stabilize the injury, according to trainer Todd Pletcher.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Woodsmoke didn't make it to the Woodbine Oaks, but she landed a nice consolation prize here Sunday, picking up $69,000 after hanging tough for a front-running nose victory in the $112,700 Alywow.

Woodsmoke, who has been on an accelerated program since debuting successfully here April 19, won the seven-furlong Fury in her second start but then failed her key Woodbine Oaks test when she opened up a long lead and faltered badly in the 1 1/16 mile La Lorgnette.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Last fall, trainer Scott Fairlie had a pair of promising Canadian-bred 2-year-old fillies in Cawaja Beach and Milwaukee Appeal.

But while Fairlie initially had much higher hopes for Cawaja Beach, it was Milwaukee Appeal who was in the stakes winner's circle following her emphatic 3 3/4-length victory in the $503,200 Woodbine Oaks on Sunday.