VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The team of trainer Terry Jordan and Bob Cheema just keeps rolling. Last weekend, they swept both ends of the C.T.H.S. Sales Stakes when Dancing Allstar romped in the fillies division Saturday and Star Prospector held off Desert Alf in the colts and geldings division Sunday. The star of the barn, True Metropolitan, won the $100,000 Speed to Spare at Northlands on Saturday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - About 2 1/2 hours before he saddles Rags to Riches in Saturday's Grade 1 Gazelle, trainer Todd Pletcher will tighten the girth around another horse that many have been waiting a long time to see.

Saturday's fourth race, a maiden event at six furlongs, marks the debut of The Green Monkey, who sold for a world record $16 million at the 2006 Fasig-Tipton 2-year-old-in-training sales at Calder. Minor physical issues prevented The Green Monkey from making it to the races at 2. He was stopped on twice for what his connections called a gluteal muscle tear.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Remarkable News came up short last year in his first attempt at the Woodbine Mile, battling from flagfall to midstretch before yielding late to finish fifth.

"It was too fast a pace, and he was eyeballing them up there," said Angel Penna Jr., who trains Remarkable News for Holly Rincon.

"It was a tough race for him; he doesn't need to do that. Obviously, it got to him a little bit. He hung in there, but he tired in the last sixteenth of a mile. I was very disappointed."

ARCADIA, Calif. - Lava Man was the first horse this fall to train over Santa Anita's new Cushion Track racing surface, but his autumn campaign will begin on grass against the best turf miler in California.

Trainer Doug O'Neill confirmed this week that Lava Man would run Oct. 7 in the Grade 2 Oak Tree Mile, a $250,000 turf race in which he will face brilliant Grade 2 Del Mar Mile winner Crossing the Line, the New Zealand-bred who is unbeaten in three U.S. starts. Lava Man's trainer, Doug O'Neill, said surface is the reason for the switch to grass.

Country Chicks Man makes his second Los Alamitos start in the Grade 1, $100,000 Go Man Go on Saturday night.

Country Chicks Man made his other start locally in the Grade 1, $600,000 Champion of Champions last Dec. 9 and ran a close third behind 2006 world champion Wave Carver and 2004 world champion Be a Bono, each of whom has made the overwhelming majority of their starts at Los Alamitos.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Rags to Riches, the Belmont Stakes winner, drew the outside post in a field of five for her much anticipated return to the races in Saturday's Grade 1, $250,000 Gazelle Stakes at Belmont Park.

The Gazelle, run at 1 1/8 miles, will be Rags to Riches' first start since she became the first filly in 102 years to win the Belmont. Rags to Riches will face Alabama runner-up Lear's Princess, who drew the rail, and Tough Tiz's Sis, the Hollywood Oaks winner who drew post 3. Also entered were Dorm Fever, in post 2 and Le Chateau, who will break from post 4.

ELMONT, N.Y. - As he strolls the sales grounds at Keeneland searching for his future stars, owner Michael Tabor is constantly reminded of the yearling he purchased there two years ago that is his current heroine.

It was Sept. 12, 2005, when Tabor and partner Derrick Smith plunked down $1.9 million for the A.P. Indy-Better Than Honour filly known today as Rags to Riches. Two months ago, Rags to Riches vaulted to rock-star status when she won a stirring stretch duel with Preakness winner Curlin to become the first filly in 102 years to win the Belmont Stakes.

Stunt Man, the longest-price in a scratched-reduced field of four, overcame a slow start and ran past Tiz Wonderful in upper stretch to win Wednesday's $75,250 More Than Ready Stakes by 2 1/2 lengths at Belmont Park.

Tiz Wonderful finished second, five lengths ahead of Flashstorm. E Z Warrior, the 4-5 favorite, finished last.

Tiz Wonderful, a multiple graded stakes winner at 2, was vanned off with an injury to his right hind ankle, according to the track's chief examining veterinarian. Tiz Wonderful was to have X-rays taken to determine the extent of the injury.

With Sin Toro's seven-length victory over Mischeviousfighter in the Saskatchewan Derby in Saturday's final race of the Marquis Downs meet, another Thoroughbred meet wrapped up in Saskatoon.

The track's racing manager, Rick Fior, said that the ontrack handle (the track's sole source of wagering) for the 29-day meet was approximately $850,000, for a daily average of $29,300, up 4.3 percent from 2006's $28,100 per day. No attendance figures are kept.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Barbara Minshall has been represented in two previous runnings of the Woodbine Mile by the multiple stakes winner Kiridashi, who finished seventh in the 1997 inaugural running and fifth the following season.

On Sunday, Minshall will be contesting her first Woodbine Mile of this decade with Estevan, a horse she claimed recently for $62,500.