The director of racing at Portland Meadows, Jerry Kohls, has released a schedule of 20 stakes and 12 invitational handicaps to be run at the track's upcoming meeting, which will include 60 days of racing from Oct. 7, 2007, through Marcho11, 2008.

More than $327,000 will be up for grabs in the 20 stakes, with the biggest chunk allocated for the March 10 running of the $30,000 Portland Meadows Mile. The mile's purse is up $5,000 from last season. Also up $5,000 is the purse for the Marcho11 Oregon Derby, which now stands at $25,000.

A ground-saving trip under Martin Pedroza produced an upset in Monday's $64,350 Foothill Stakes at Fairplex. Prime Ruler stayed inside, cut the corner into the stretch, and won over two rivals who lost significant ground rallying wide. The runner-up, I'm All Out, hung after a six-wide rally, while Lit'sgoodlookngray finished a length farther back in third after a four-wide rally.

MIAMI - Take D' Tour has returned to her Calder base following Saturday's disappointing fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Ruffian at Belmont Park.

"This is a tough game to figure," trainer David Fawkes said. "She couldn't have been training any better going into the race. Her last work was perfect, and then she goes out and doesn't beat a horse on Saturday. She wasn't training nearly as well before we took her up there the last time when she beat Ginger Punch to win a Grade 1," in the Ogden Phipps.

AUBURN, Wash. - Sixty-nine horses have been nominated to contest the seven stakes races on Sunday's fifth annual Washington Cup Day card, but most of the attention and a big chunk of the wagering will be focused on The Great Face in the $50,000 Muckleshoot Tribal Classic at 1 1/16 miles.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A total of eight shippers from the United States are slated to run in Sunday's Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile.

As of Tuesday the only invader on the grounds was Becrux, last year's Woodbine Mile winner, who arrived a week earlier.

Dead Red was due in from Florida on Wednesday, with Remarkable News, Shakespeare, Art Master, Kip Deville, Host, and Galantas all expected to arrive on Thursday.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Remarkably, Le Cinquieme Essai seems to still be improving at age 8. But can he come up with the race of his career in the Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile here Sunday?

Hastings stewards have suspended jockey Pedro Alvarado for 60 days after he inexplicably dismounted his horse, Louder, before the sixth race on Sept. 2 and exited the track through a gap in the fence.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Indyanne could be the best runner who will compete at this Bay Meadows meeting, and she showed it when she won Saturday's Bay Meadows Debutante in very impressive style.

A 2-year-old filly who won her debut on opening day by 10 lengths, Indyanne defeated stablemate This Side Up by six lengths in Satur-day's six-furlong stakes.

POMONA, Calif. - Doug O'Neill has gone a long way in the 11 years since winning his first stakes race on the five-eighths-mile track at Fairplex Park.

"It was in the CTBA Marian Stakes with a filly named Tanks Forthemusic," O'Neill recalled. "I remember standing in the winner's circle and I felt like Bobby Frankel."

O'Neill has made quite a few more trips to the winner's circle since then, and Sunday at Fairplex, he celebrated the 1,000th win of his career.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Last year, trainer Mark Casse sent out Sprung and Quiet Action to run one-two in the Grade 3 Natalma here at Woodbine.

While it seemed unlikely that Casse could top that feat, he did just that when Clearly Foxy, Nite in Rome, and Lickety Lemon finished 1-2-3 in Sunday's renewal of the one-mile turf race for 2-year-old fillies.

The sweep netted Casse $146,500 of the $162,000 purse, with all but $30,000 of that going to the account of Charles Laloggia, who owns both Clearly Foxy and Lickety Lemon.