Dermot Weld knows something about sending horses around the world to win big races from his home at the Curragh. In 1990 he won the Belmont Stakes with Go and Go. A year later he saddled Additional Risk to win the Hong Kong Bowl. He has won the Melbourne Cup with Vintage Crop and Media Puzzle and has landed Group 1 races in England, Italy, and Germany.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer Troy Taylor isn't sure if both Holy Nova and Lady Raj will start in Saturday's $50,000 Vancouver Sun Handicap for fillies and mares at Hastings.

Either horse would likely be a strong favorite to win the 1 1/16-mile race, the co-feature on a nine-race card with the $50,000 Supernaturel. If they both start, Taylor's coupled entry will go off as a prohibitive favorite.

ELMONT, N.Y. - The pick six went unhit at Belmont Park for a second consecutive day, resulting in a double carryover of $190,641 heading into Friday's Fourth of July card.

The carryover was assured when Missinglisalewis ($22) won Thursday's nightcap, as there had been only one favorite in the sequence. There were 33 consolations tickets (5 of 6), each worth $1,382.

Friday's pick six will be contested on races 4 through 9 and include the Grade 2 Tom Fool Handicap and the Grade 2 First Flight Handicap, both seven-furlong sprint races.

EDMONTON, Alberta – Teagues Fight and Footprint rekindle a rivalry that flared this spring at Stampede Park and promises to continue throughout this meet in Saturday’s $50,000 Spangled Jimmy.

Footprint scored first in the Teeworth Plate, establishing a course record in the one-mile test, and Teagues Fight rebounded a month later in the Herald Gold Plate, equalling the course record.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – For the first time this year Hastings has carded two stakes races on the same program. Leading off in the seventh is the $50,000 Supernaturel Handicap for 3-year-old fillies. The 1 1/16-mile race attracted six horses, including probable favorite Remarkable Miss.

The Troy Taylor-trained entry of Holy Nova and Lady Raj will be a very short price in the second stakes, the Vancouver Sun. The $50,000 Sun at 1 1/16 miles goes as the eighth race, with eight fillies and mares entered.

Sam Houston Race Park will host the 36th annual Willie Nelson's Family Picnic on Saturday. Among the artists set to perform during the daylong festival are Nelson, Merle Haggard, and Los Lonely Boys. Friday night, the feature is the $20,000 Silestone for Quarter Horses.

Defending champion Unbridled Belle heads a group of 17 older fillies and mares nominated to the $1 million Delaware Handicap on July 13 at Delaware Park.

Unbridled Belle, trained by Todd Pletcher, will be seeking to become the first horse to win back-to-back runnings of the Grade 2, 1 1/4-mile Delaware Handicap since Nastique in 1998 and 1999.

Weights for the race will be assigned Saturday and entries drawn Tuesday.

Reacting to the news that a horse trained by Steve Asmussen has tested positive for the Class 2 drug lidocaine in a race at Lone Star Park, Woodbine has begun putting Asmussen's entrants under its surveillance program.

Asmussen horses entered to race at Woodbine will be monitored beginning five hours before their post times by Woodbine security, who will restrict access to designated handlers. Jamie Martin, Woodbine's senior vice president of racing, said that the surveillance is a "house" rule.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The California Horse Racing Board began collecting blood samples for anabolic steroid testing on Wednesday. While the penalty phase of the new steroid policy will not take effect until later this summer at the earliest, trainers expressed concern on Wednesday that they could be sanctioned for claiming a horse who has recently been administered steroids.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Trainer Ken McPeek brought his family to Southern California for the week, turning the opportunity to run My Baby Baby in the Grade 1, $750,000 American Oaks into a Southern California vacation. The McPeeks have encamped at a beachside hotel in Santa Monica, which is about as far as My Baby Baby will be from the rail when she starts in the American Oaks on Saturday at Hollywood Park.