BOSSIER CITY, La. - A total of 121 horses have been entered for Saturday's 13-race, $1.3 million Louisiana Downs Champions Day program. The card will have eight races for Thoroughbreds and five for Quarter Horses and will be restricted to horses bred in Louisiana. All races carry a $100,000 purse.

The first Thoroughbred event will be the Louisiana Breeders' Oaks, which goes as the fourth race. Ahead of Her Time puts her perfect four-race record on the line in the 1 1/16-mile race for 3-year-old fillies.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Serenading, a 3-year-old filly who had been under serious consideration for Sunday's Ontario Matron, will be looking to extend her streak in Friday's main supporting feature here at Woodbine.

The $73,800 allowance and optional claimer for fillies and mares on the main track is carded as the third race and attracted a field of seven.

Serenading has won her last two starts at Friday's 1 1/16-mile distance, under maiden special and first-level allowance terms, and should handle the step up in conditions under leading rider David Clark.

Scat's Princess will try to turn the tables on C.R. Charmer as they head a field of eight in Friday's $27,500 Falls Amiss Handicap for Nebraska-bred fillies and mares on day two of the Horsemen's Park four-day summer racing festival in Omaha, Neb.

Friday's races also feature a 1 3/8-mile $3,500 claiming race with a purse of $17,500. That race drew a full field of 10 with Olympic Junction and Tombstone the likely favorites.

MIAMI - Trainer Eddie Plesa Jr. said the one thing he cannot control when it comes to veteran turf specialist Magic Mecke is the weather. Such was the case earlier this month when the 7-year-old's much-anticipated return in the Mecke Handicap was postponed after the race was switched from the grass to the main track due to rain.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Irish trainer Dermot Weld has made a habit of sending horses from Ireland for the American Derby at Arlington. He had a couple prospects picked out for this year's race, too, but a shipping snafu almost cost Weld a chance for his fourth win in the American Derby on Saturday.

All I Can Get, the top juvenile in Michigan last year, avenged his loss in last month's Lansing Stakes with a resounding win in Tuesday's $50,000 Spartan Stakes at Great Lakes Downs. Under leading rider Freddie Mata, All I Can Get won by three lengths over Kentucky invader Candid Image, who was more than a length clear of Lansing winner Born to Tango.

Louisiana Legends Night in late June and last weekend's Cajun Jockey Challenge are tough acts to follow, but the participants in Saturday's inaugural running of the $50,000 Oak Hall Stakes are going to give it their best shot.

A total of eight sprinters passed the entry box Wednesday morning for the seven-furlong stakes.

Jockey Paul Nolan earned his 997th career victory last week and it's very likely he will earn his 1,000th career victory sometime this week. Nolan, 45, began his career as a jump rider in his native England but has earned the majority of his victories at Canterbury Park after traveling to Minnesota in 1988 to work as an exercise rider. Nolan, who began his riding career in 1990, suffered a broken neck during the 2005 Canterbury meeting. He was the leading rider at this meet last season.

Scat's Princess is one of the leading contenders in the Falls Amiss Handicap on Friday at Horsemen's Park.P

It isn't often that you see a horse in the infield pond at River Downs, but if you were watching on Tuesday you did.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Miss Dorothy finished third in the prep for the Dance Smartly here on June 29, but she is passing on that Grade 2, $300,000 stakes in favor of a comfortable spot here at Woodbine on Friday.

The third-level optional $80,000 claimer for fillies and mares over one mile of turf offers a purse of $78,400 and will go as the sixth race on a solid nine-race program.