BOSSIER CITY, La. - In what can only be called a fluke of nature, a 2-year-old filly has given birth on the Louisiana Downs backside.

Tiger Eyed, a juvenile filly by top Louisiana sire Ide, had been under trainer Pat Mouton's shed row for two months before it was discovered she had given birth to a filly on Wednesday morning.

"I got to the track about 5:45 a.m.," said Mouton. "I saw a group of people down at the end of the barn and knew something was up. When I looked in her stall, I couldn't believe my eyes."

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Though trainer Bobby Frankel is not happy that this year's Breeders' Cup will be run over a synthetic surface, he is starting to warm to the idea of running Ginger Punch in the $2 million Ladies Classic on Oct. 24 at Santa Anita.

On the morning after Ginger Punch's thrilling nose victory over Lemon Drop Mom in Friday's Grade 1 Personal Ensign at Saratoga, Frankel indicated that Ginger Punch could end her career with starts in the $600,000 Beldame at Belmont on Sept. 27 and the Ladies Classic, a race she won last year when it was known as the Distaff.

DEL MAR, Calif. – No one hit the pick six on Friday at Del Mar, resulting in a carryover of $133,537 into Saturday's card.

Saturday's card is nine races, so the pick six will be on races 4-9.

It is an extremely challenging sequence, with at least 10 runners in four of the six races, and no field with fewer than eight betting interests.

The feature is the Grade 2, $250,000 Del Mar Handicap, in which Spring House, at 8-5, is the shortest-priced morning-line favorite in the pick six sequence.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Horses such as Rock the Rock may perplex bettors trying to solve Sunday's $1 million-guaranteed pick six pool at Del Mar.

Rock the Rock makes his second start in a maiden race over 1 1/8 miles on turf, the sixth race on the 11-race program. Normally, a maiden race on turf would not draw significant attention, but its presence as the first leg of a lucrative pick six pool makes the race more appealing to bettors.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Ian Black holds a hot hand for Sunday's Belle Geste, which is one of two $100,000 overnight stakes on the program and attracted a field of 10 Ontario-foaled fillies and mares.

Black will send out Glitter Rox, who is owned by Elle Boje Farm and partners, and Prophetically, owned by Kinghaven Farm and partners, in the Belle Geste over seven furlongs on turf.

True Metropolitan, who has been voted Sovereign Awards as the best older horse in Canada the past two years, came out of the Longacres Mile with a foot injury, according to his trainer, Terry Jordan, and could be in jeopardy of missing the $100,000 Speed to Spare at Northlands Park on Sept. 6, a race he has won the past two years.

"He tore off half of his foot," said Jordan. "He lost a shoe during the race and it probably happened when the ground broke out from under him when he left the starting gate. It was a pretty gutsy performance considering how poorly he broke."

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Eclipse Award champion Ginger Punch survived a frantic stretch battle and won a head bob with a game Lemon Drop Mom to post a nose decision in Friday's $400,000 Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga.

"To be honest, I thought I got beat," was Ginger Punch's trainer Bobby Frankel's initial reaction at the conclusion of the Grade 1 Personal Ensign. "She got the perfect bob. It was a very good race, and I'm glad we were able to come out on the right end."

Valid Message and Enjoy the Score came rolling from off the pace for clear victories in 2-year-old stakes earlier this month at Louisiana Downs, and each could return to action Sept. 20. Both are eyeing starts on the Super Derby undercard at Louisiana Downs, with Valid Message likely to start in the $150,000 Sunday Silence and Enjoy the Score possible for the $150,000 Happy Ticket.

Sultan's Prince gets a chance to show off Sunday when the winner of last year's Norman Hall Stakes returns to the Massachusetts-bred ranks in the $50,000 African Prince Stakes at Suffolk Downs.

A 3-year-old colt, Sultan's Prince was born to be a champion in Massachusetts. He's the fifth stakes winner from the pairing of sire Sundance Ridge and the mare Sultan's Light. He was even money to win the Norman Hall Stakes last November just like his brothers Stylish Sultan and Strongestsovereign did earlier this decade.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - Two-year-olds? Todd Pletcher does that. Stakes races? Pletcher sends out scores in those each year, too. So, no surprise then, that the Pletcher string at Arlington Park will be well represented in the two stakes races for juveniles here next month.