BALTIMORE - Remarkable News bounded to victory at 6-1 in the Grade 2 Dixie Stakes on Saturday at Pimlico in a race marred by a breakdown leaving the half-mile pole by the front-runner at the time, Mending Fences, who was ridden by Eddie Castro.

BALTIMORE - Chelokee lived up to his 1-5 favoritism, taking the lead entering the far turn and drawing off to a convincing win the $100,000 Barbaro Stakes at Pimlico on Saturday.

Chelokee is trained by Michael Matz, who was also the trainer of Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner who broke his right hind leg a furlong out of the gate in last year’s Preakness. Barbaro fought bravely for survival, though he succumbed to laminitis and had to be euthanized on Jan. 29. Maryland Jockey Club officials changed the name of this race from the Sir Barton.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – True Metropolitan, last year’s champion older male and the runner-up for Canadian Horse of the Year, has shipped from Vancouver to Woodbine for Monday’s $150,000 Eclipse Stakes.

The Grade 3 race, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles on the Polytrack, has drawn an all-star cast that includes three other Canadian champions – Shillelagh Slew, Palladio, and Judiths Wild Rush.

BALTIMORE - Michael Matz had run horses at Pimlico since last year's Preakness Stakes, but not until Saturday had he actually set foot in the place since Barbaro's tragic injury.

"It didn't present itself for me to come back," Matz said.

The occasion to return proved a far happier one, because Matz sent out heavily favored Chelokee to a popular victory in the first running of the $100,000 Barbaro Stakes.

BALTIMORE - Setting the stage for Preakness drama, Flashy Bull outgamed Hesanoldsalt in a sensational stretch-long duel Saturday in the Grade 3 William Donald Schaefer Handicap, the lead-in race to the 132nd Preakness at Pimlico Race Course.

With Flashy Bull racing near the rail and Hesanoldsalt right alongside, the two fought tooth-and-nail for the entire stretch, with Flashy Bull, ridden by Alan Garcia, emerging as the best by a head.

BALTIMORE - Under a confident ride from Edgar Prado, Panty Raid surged past the front-running favorite Baroness Thatcher inside the eighth pole, then was kept to steady pressure to defeat Winning Point in the Grade 2, $250,000 Black-Eyed Susan Stakes at Pimlico Race Course on Friday.

BALTIMORE - As of 6:30 p.m. Eastern on Friday, Street Sense was the 9-5 favorite after advance wagering on the 132nd Preakness on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course. Here follow the advance odds for the Preakness:

1, Mint Slewlep, 31-1

2, Xchanger, 13-1

3, Circular Quay, 6-1

4, Curlin, 3-1

5, King of the Roxy, 18-1

6, Flying First Class, 14-1

7, Hard Spun, 3-1

8, Street Sense, 9-5

9, C P West, 17-1

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer Steve Henson and owner Jeff Sengara will certainly be paying close attention when Suva runs in the Emerald Downs Stakes at Hastings Sunday. They will also be taking a good look at the Grade 3, $250,000 Selene Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Woodbine, also on Sunday.

The Selene is considered the major prep for the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks. If Suva runs a big race in the Emerald Downs, they are considering sending her east to take on the best Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies in Canada in the June 10 Oaks, run at 1 1/8 miles.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The 2006 Kentucky Oaks winner, Lemons Forever, appears ready for a switch in racing surfaces.

Thursday she breezed five furlongs in a bullet 1:01 around the dogs over a good Churchill Downs turf course, and afterward trainer Dallas Stewart said he would like to run Lemons Forever next in an allowance or stakes race on grass.

BALTIMORE – Trainer Steve Asmussen considered Friday’s Grade 2 Allaire duPont Breeders’ Cup Handicap a defining moment in the career of his Illinois-bred mare Rolling Sea.

“Either she’s going to compete at this level or go to the listed statebred races,” Asmussen said.