ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Disfunction, one of the major success stories of Woodbine's 2008 meeting, will be taking his show on the road for his next start.

The 4-year-old gelding, trained by Julia Carey, is scheduled to run in Keeneland's Grade 3 Phoenix, a six-furlong race for 3-year-olds and upward Oct. 4.

Disfunction, who is not Breeders' Cup eligible, will be competing for a purse of $150,000 in the Phoenix.

"There's nothing for him here, unless we want to run him long, and we wouldn't want to change things on him right now," Carey said.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Trainer Dallas Stewart once worked as a valet in the jockeys' room at Louisiana Downs. Wednesday, he entered his first horse in the track's most prestigious race, the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby.

Macho Again has been made the 5-2 morning-line favorite in the 10-horse field Saturday. He drew post 3 on Wednesday for the 1 1/8-mile race, and will be ridden by Kent Desormeaux.

Macho Again, who is based at Churchill Downs, flew into his trainer's old stomping grounds on Tuesday.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Forest Command will make his stakes debut in just his fourth career start Saturday in the Grade 2, $500,000 Super Derby, but with a pedigree like his, the move is to be expected. He is a son of Kentucky Derby winner Monarchos and the Grade 1-winning mare Forest Secrets.

"Those are kind of two jewels in a row right there, so this horse has got every license to be a top racehorse," said John Ward, who trains Forest Command for John Oxley.

The Delaware-based trainer Larry Jones has appealed a seven-day suspension handed down by the Delaware Thoroughbred Racing Commission on Wednesday for the postrace finding of a prohibited bronchial dilator after a race in June, Jones and officials of the commission said after the ruling was released.

The appeal, which will automatically stay the suspension, was filed late on Wednesday, and the commission has tentatively scheduled to hear the appeal at its meeting on Oct. 21, according to the commission's executive director, John Wayne.

By winning the Whitney Handicap in July, Commentator secured his spot in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic next month at Santa Anita if his connections so desire. But before thinking about that, owner Tracy Farmer and trainer Nick Zito are focused on Saturday's $500,000 Massachusetts Handicap, a race in which Commentator will be heavily favored against six opponents.

MIAMI - While the newly created Monmouth Stakes was getting all the attention last Saturday because of the presence of Big Brown, there was another rich turf race for older horses being decided the same day just down the turnpike at Philadelphia Park, the $250,000 PTHA President's Cup. That race was won by the Calder-based Soldier's Dancer, who exploded through the stretch to an impressive two-length victory over longshot Ballonenostrikes for trainer Dave Vivian and owner Herman Heinlein.

POMONA, Calif. - Kelly Leak, the disqualified winner of the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes last month, will miss the $250,000 Norfolk Stakes at Santa Anita on Sept. 28.

Trainer Mike Machowsky said Wednesday that because he was discouraged by the colt's 10th-place finish in the Del Mar Futurity on Sept. 3, Kelly Leak was turned out for a two-week break on Sept. 9 and will return to Santa Anita next week.

"I wasn't happy with the way he ran," Machowsky said of the Del Mar Futurity. "He was too rank and too close to the pace. After that race, I thought I might regroup."

Jockey Louis Stokes, looking for a sweep of the two 2008 race meets at Thistledown, has opened a daylight lead in the standings. Stokes has won 39 races during the first 43 days of the 56-day Randall-Cranwood meeting. Luis Gonzalez is second with 33. Stokes has already won this year's Summit-Thistledown meeting at Thistledown.

For the entire Thistledown season, which began May 1, Stokes has a nine-winner advantage, 77-68, over Weldon Cloninger Jr.

Jeff Radosevich leads all trainers at the Randall-Cranwood meeting with 22 victories. Rodney Faulkner is second with 19.

A group of sharp runners meet in the Emerald Downs Friday feature.

The six-furlong $7,500 claimer includes the entry of Spitfire Slew, a winner of two of his past three, and Potrero Station, who has won two of his past four starts while hitting the board each time. The race also includes last-out winners Code Red and Woodland Breeze.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The presence of champion Indian Blessing in Saturday's Grade 2 Gallant Bloom Handicap at Belmont Park probably scared a lot of horsemen from running in the race. Bruce Levine is not among them.

Though his filly, Elope, has only run twice in her life - and just once for him - Levine has embraced the challenge of taking on the four-time Grade 1 winner Indian Blessing in the $150,000 Gallant Bloom at 6 1/2 furlongs.

"I'm not afraid of her," Levine said. "She's a real nice filly, but she's 3. We'll find out on Saturday. I'll be there."