SHAKOPEE, Minn. – The Claiming Crown apparently has become so entrenched in the collective conscience of American horseplayers that Roman numerals are now attached. Claiming Crown X, or the 10th running, is set for Saturday at Canterbury Park, where 64 horses were entered Wednesday for the seven-race series.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - True Metropolitan, who had not lost two straight races since opening up his 2006 campaign with three defeats, was the runner-up for the second straight time here in last Sunday's $151,200 Seagram Cup.

"He was the best horse - he just ran a little bit farther than the other horse," said trainer Terry Jordan, who had watched True Metropolitan finish a head back as the Seagram Cup runner-up after Artie Hot slipped up the rail for the stretch drive.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - When Carriage Trail got beat in the Mariensky Stakes at Belmont Park three weeks ago, jockey Edgar Prado told trainer Shug McGaughey he waited too long to make his move.

In Wednesday's $84,250 De La Rose Stakes at Saratoga, Prado could not have timed his move any better.

Prado swung Carriage Trail out into the four path turning into the stretch and the 5-year-old mare made a big move inside the sixteenth pole to run down Trouble Maker in the final jump to win the De La Rose by a nose. It was a length back to Medley in third.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - The field for the $1 million Haskell Invitational on Sunday at Monmouth Park is coming into clearer focus.

Big Brown, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner who is making his first start since being pulled up in the Belmont Stakes, remains the headliner for the biggest event of the meet.

The roster of challengers continues to shift. As of Wednesday, Monmouth racing secretary Mike Dempsey projected a field of seven.

Fasig-Tipton Texas has cataloged 506 horses to its annual summer yearling sale, which will be held at Lone Star Park on Aug. 25-26. The sessions begin at 10 a.m. Central each day in the sales pavilion on the Lone Star backstretch.

For jockey Don Herber, the season at Columbus came to an end before the first race was run last weekend when he suffered a hip injury in a morning accident July 22 that hospitalized him for more than a week.

Due to a timer malfunction, the 10 finalists for the $114,430 Mile High Futurity for Quarter Horses on Aug. 10 were determined by a method other than fastest time in their trials.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - The stage has been set for Saturday's Louisiana Downs Champions Day as 75 statebreds were entered Wednesday afternoon for the eight stakes worth a collective $750,000. The 11-race program gets under way at 1:25 p.m. Central.

The Heiligbrodt Racing-owned entry of Gaston, third in the D.S. "Shine" Young recently at Evangeline Downs, and recent maiden winner Cajun Thunder should dominate the wagering in the $75,000 Stardust Stakes, which kicks off the card. They will face Break Up, fourth in the Shine with a spirited rally.

EDMONTON, Alberta – Bodgits Lady, winner of the Princess Margaret here July 11, heads a field of nine in Friday evening’s Bird of Pay to kick off a holiday weekend at Northlands Park that features stakes races on four straight days.

The Bird of Pay, for 2-year-old fillies at 6 1/2 furlongs, offers a $50,000 purse plus some serious Alberta-bred bonus money – $28,650 for first, $11,938 for second, and $7,162 for third.

A news brief about the Del Mar pick six misstated the payout for 5 of 6 on Sunday. It was $459.80, not $1,871.