OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Six Florida shippers, two familiar faces, and one intriguing locally based horse make up the challengers expected to face the undefeated New York-bred Giant Moon in what is shaping up to be a 10-horse field for Saturday's Grade 3, $250,000 Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct.

The Gotham, contested at 1 1/16 miles over the inner track, is the local prep for the Grade 1, $750,000 Wood Memorial to be run at 1 1/8 miles over Aqueduct's main track on April 5. Both are stepping-stones to the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 3.

The winner of the John Battaglia Memorial Stakes invariably runs well enough that he goes next in the Lane's End Stakes.

This year, however, is different. He is a she. Absolutely Cindy, the 3-year-old filly who defeated 10 colts and geldings in her 19-1 upset of the $100,000 Battaglia Memorial on Saturday at Turfway Park, could run next in the March 22 Bourbonette Stakes at Turfway, with the Grade 1 Ashland Stakes and possibly the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks to follow.

Fort Erie Racetrack, which will reopen its backstretch on March 24, again will offer a streamlined schedule of four stakes at its 2008 meeting, which begins May 3.

The $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, a 1 3/16-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-olds and the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown, is the showpiece of the meeting and will be run on July 13.

For Some Ghost ($3.60), the $125,000 New Mexico State University Handicap on Saturday at Sunland Park was in the bag.

Bai and Bai ($5.80) sat just behind favored Somethinaboutlaura, pinning her on the rail down the stretch as the two engaged in a head-and-head duel over the final quarter-mile before Bai and Bai edged clear to win Saturday's Foster City Handicap at Bay Meadows by a length.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Monashee was named the 2007 horse of the year and champion older filly or mare in British Columbia at the annual awards banquet held at the Boulevard Casino in Coquitlam, B.C., on Friday evening.

A Kentucky-bred mare by Wolf Power, Monashee won five stakes races at Hastings in 2007, including an easy win in the Grade 3 Ballerina Breeders' Cup. Her win in the Ballerina was her 11th stakes victory in a row. Monashee's streak came to an end when she went unplaced in the Maple Leaf Stakes at Woodbine last November.

Beulah Park canceled live racing on Monday because of thawing track conditions. The temperature hovered in the mid-60s and the track continued to that unevenly. Racing was scheduled to resume on Tuesday, although one to three inches of rain were forecast for Monday evening.- John McDulin

Footprint, who last summer put together a three-race win streak at Northlands Park capped by the Canadian Derby, was honored as Alberta’s horse of the year and champion 3-year-old male at last Saturday’s Night of Champions ceremony at Stampede Park in Calgary.

Footprint, a Kentucky-bred, is trained by Joan Petrowksi, who also is co-owner with Derek Milen and Elwin Page.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - A gutsy Karakorum Starlet ($5.30) shook off two stern challengers to record a half-length victory in Sunday's $80,400 Broadway Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares at Aqueduct.

After putting away a pace challenge from Tamberino at the five-sixteenths pole, Karkorum Starlet was confronted by Wishing Wishes at the quarter pole. Karakorum Starlet, under Stewart Elliott, held Wishing Wishes, to whom she was spotting five pounds, at bay through the stretch to get the victory, her third straight against New York-breds.

HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. - Bsharpsonata's march through south Florida continued Sunday when the 3-year-old filly registered a two-length victory over 3-5 favorite Game Face in the $150,000 Davona Dale Stakes at Gulfstream Park.

Bsharpsonata, a homebred daughter of Pulpit, added the Grade 2 Davona Dale to her earlier victories this season in the Tropical Park Oaks at Calder and the Grade 2 Forward Gal. Trained by Tim Salzman for the Clover Leaf Farms II Inc., Bsharpsonata ($7.60) covered a mile in 1:37.97 over a fast but somewhat cuppy racetrack.