ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Saskawea, who came to life with an upset win in the Avowal Stakes at Woodbine Sept. 27, will look to double up here in Saturday’s $100,000 River Memories.

The River Memories, a one-mile overnight stakes, represents the last black-type turf opportunity for fillies and mares at the meeting and attracted a field of eight.

Saskawea, an Ontario-bred 4-year-old, was making just her third start of the year when rallying at 13-1 for a three-quarter-length score in the Avowal, an overnight turf stakes for fillies and mares at seven furlongs.

ARCADIA, Calif. - A wave of nostalgia swept over retired Hall of Fame jockey Gary Stevens when he saw Saturday's overnight at Santa Anita.

For the first time since 2005, Stevens found his name listed among the entries. He is one of eight retired jockeys participating in the Living Legends race, a parimutuel race that is the fourth race on Santa Anita's 10-race program.

Stevens will be ride against fellow Hall of Famers Jerry Bailey, Angel Cordero Jr., Pat Day, Sandy Hawley, Julie Krone, Chris McCarron, and Jacinto Vasquez in an optional claimer over seven furlongs.

STICKNEY, Ill. - Hawthorne Gaming LLC, with the Estate of Thomas Carey as a major equity stakeholder, was one of seven entities to file a bid with the Illinois Gaming Board for an Illinois casino license late Tuesday afternoon. The bidders were revealed late Wednesday. Each hopes to be awarded the 10th and final casino license in the state, a license that has been vacant for more than a decade.

PHOENIX – Saturday’s divisions of the Arizona Thoroughbred Breeders Association Stakes at Turf Paradise give a couple of runners a chance to further separate themselves from the pack. Racetrack Barbie, a romping winner of her Oct. 3 trial for this race, heads a field of 10 2-year-old fillies in the $91,625 filly division, while Minnetonka Mist, a dazzling 17-length winner in his trial here Oct. 3, looks to validate that form against nine others in the $81,478 male division. Both events, which go as races 7 and 8 on the card, are at six furlongs.

The Beulah Park simulcast signal was unavailable outside of Ohio on Wednesday after a disagreement between track management and local horsemen over their simulcast contract.

With no out-of-state betting, Beulah handled a total of $3,682 on its first race Wednesday. Beulah's 48-day meet, which began Tuesday, is scheduled to run through Dec. 20.

ELMONT, N.Y. - On paper, Grand Couturier's half-mile breeze in 51.04 seconds over Belmont Park's inner turf course Wednesday morning in preparation for the Breeders' Cup Turf won't look like much. Visually, however, it may be as impressive a move as any horse will put in for the Breeders' Cup championships.

ARCADIA, Calif.-There are carryovers in the pick six and the Super High Five at Santa Anita on Thursday, and it's the Super High Five, introduced last December, that has the larger carryover.

The $1 Super High Five, which requires bettors to correctly select the first five finishers of the last race, has a carryover of $211,064. An upset win by Ata Benchmark ($71.40) in Wednesday's eighth race triggered a carryover for the second consecutive day.

Golden Gate Fields canceled Saturday’s scheduled $50,000 Albany Stakes due to a lack of entries.

The six-furlong stakes race for fillies and mares would have been run with only four betting interests, with the Greg Gilchrist-trained High Resolve and Victorina running as a coupled entry. Only five runners entered the race.

Earlier in the week, connections for stakes winners Gadget Queen, Kalookan Dancer and Unspoken Word indicated they would run.

Trainer Jeff Radosevich has gone into a slump at just the wrong time. One winner short of his 1,000th career victory, he has gone 0 for his last 11 starters.

Since winning 3 of the first 5 races at Thistledown on Oct. 3, he has gone winless at this track with 28 consecutive starters, though nine of them finished second or third.

Radosevich scored win No. 999 at Mountaineer Park last Friday night. "I know that winner will come sooner or later," he said.

He's the leading trainer at Thistledown this meet with 65 winners, 10 more than Rodney Faulkner.

Six weeks into the Hoosier Park meet, it still isn't clear how much the addition of a casino will help purses at the Anderson, Ind., track.

Hoosier used to receive purse supplements from the riverboat casinos in the state, but that arrangement has ended and revenue from the casino hasn't yet begun to supplement overnight purses.