ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Call the Posse is one of several promising Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies in trainer Josie Carroll's barn.

On Sunday, Call the Posse will attempt to get off to a good start on the trail to the June 8 Woodbine Oaks when she faces six rivals in the $150,000 Fury.

Call the Posse makes her seasonal debut in the Fury, a seven-furlong race for Ontario-foaled 3-year-old fillies that has been an important stepping-stone to the 1 1/8-mile Woodbine Oaks.

"I think she ran very well on the synthetic track here last year," said Carroll.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - It has been nine years since an Ashland Stakes winner has won the Kentucky Oaks, but the connections of Little Belle believe the dramatically improved filly stands a solid chance when the 134th Oaks is run Friday at Churchill Downs.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - True Metropolitan is slated to make his 2008 debut in the $50,000 George Royal Stakes at Hastings next Sunday. Trained by Terry Jordan, True Metropolitan won 7 of 10 starts last year and for the second straight year won a Sovereign Award for being the best handicap horse in Canada.

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Force Freeze is headed to Maryland after running the fastest six furlongs of the young Lone Star Park meet on Thursday night. The speedster, who is 3, will make his graded stakes debut at Pimlico in the Grade 3, $100,000 Hirsch Jacobs at six furlongs on the Preakness Stakes undercard May 17.

"We'll try to fly him out four days before the race," said Allen Milligan, who trains Force Freeze.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - The key to conquering Sunday's $1 million guaranteed pick six at Hollywood Park is negotiating through the four maiden special weight and allowance races, which have drawn big fields.

But finding a reliable key selection in the pick-six sequence may be difficult.

The pick six covers the fifth through 10th races on the 10-race California Gold Rush program for statebreds. The four non-stakes in the sequence offer lucrative $60,000 purses for maidens and $70,000 allowance race purses.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Had things gone according to plan this winter and spring, Rajiv Maragh would be looking forward to the start of the Monmouth Park meet on May 9. But since things went better than planned, Maragh is now looking forward to Wednesday's opening of the Belmont Park season.

Maragh, a native of Jamaica who grew up in south Florida, did so well riding at Aqueduct full time for the first time that he now plans to make New York his permanent home.

AUBURN, Wash. - Shampoo, who was among the brightest stars at Emerald Downs last season, is slated to make her 4-year-old debut in a 5 1/2-furlong allowance dash Sunday. Will she be ready to shine her brightest at first asking?

"That would be asking a lot," trainer Doris Harwood said. "Five and a half furlongs is really too short for her, so we're not expecting a whole lot this time. We'll be happy if she finishes well and comes out of the race well. That would set her up for the Hastings Park Handicap on May 18, which is what we are looking to do."

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Keeneland's closing day card Friday will be highlighted by a pick six carryover of $375,412, all of which must be paid out since it is the final day of the meet. Keeneland is running a 10-race card on Friday, so the pick six will begin on race 5.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Brian Lynch, back in town following a solid Gulfstream Park meeting for Stronach Stable, still has some unfinished business south of the border.

Saturday, Lynch will be back in Florida to saddle Ginger Brew for the $200,000 Calder Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.

Ginger Brew started three times at Gulfstream, finishing second twice before winning a first-level turf allowance at 1 1/16 miles by four lengths.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Diamond Diva has won one-mile turf stakes in her first two starts in this country and has yet to play to her strength, trainer Jim Cassidy said.

"She's not a miler," he said.

Could have fooled everyone. Diamond Diva won her U.S. debut in the American Beauty Handicap at Santa Anita on March 30, and followed with a sharp win in Wednesday's $110,800 Wilshire Handicap at Hollywood Park.