ETOBICOKE, Ontario - A Woodbine Oaks would not seem complete without the participation of Sam-Son Farm. Its colorbearer this year, Quiet Jungle, is a dark horse in the field of 11 for Sunday's $500,000 feature for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Sam-Son Farm has been represented by 27 starters in 20 runnings of the 1 1/8-mile Woodbine Oaks, dating back to 1977. Seven of those fillies were winners, including three in Sam-Son's modern era with trainer Mark Frostad.

ELMONT, N.Y. – As Thoroughbred racing gets set to crown a new Belmont Stakes winner on Saturday, last year’s Belmont victor, Jazil, is still seeking a return to form.

Jazil has raced only three times since winning last year’s Belmont. A bruised a hind cannon bone forced him to the shelf until January, when he finished second, beaten 2 1/4 lengths in a second-level allowance by Take the Bluff over Aqueduct’s inner track.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Reade Baker has felt the glare of the Woodbine Oaks spotlight, sending out half of the 10-horse field in 2005 and three of the five entrants in 2004.

Gold Strike wound up dominating the 2005 Oaks for Baker as the choice, a year after Touchnow finished second for Baker behind favored Eye of the Sphynx.

But Baker will be coming into Sunday's race with a decidedly low profile, as his hopes rest with Love You Crazy, who is 20-1 on the track morning line.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Street Sounds, a winner of two stakes on turf and one on Polytrack for trainer Michael Matz, checked in from Maryland on Thursday morning and has been made the 5-2 favorite for Sunday's $500,000 Woodbine Oaks.

The Woodbine Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile Polytrack race for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies, attracted a field of 11.

Street Sounds drew post 3 and will be ridden by Ramon Dominguez, who was aboard for her last win in Pimlico's Hilltop over one mile of turf on May 12.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Darwin Banach will be active on two important fronts this weekend.

On Saturday, he will be at Belmont Park to saddle Sky Conqueror, a 5-year-old who was voted Canada's champion turf horse last year, in the $400,000 Manhattan Handicap, in search of his second straight Grade 1 victory.

Banach, the private trainer for owner and breeder Bill Sorokolit, then will head home and arrive in plenty of time to saddle Palace Pier in Sunday's $500,000 Woodbine Oaks, a 1 1/8-mile race for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Last year was not particularly good for Louisiana-bred 3-year-olds, except, of course, for Costa Rising. The Royal Strand colt dominated the division, winning eight times and ringing up over $400,000 in earnings.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Einstein, the highly accomplished turf specialist who gained some notoriety when he dumped jockey Robby Albarado on Preakness Day at Pimlico, might make a surface switch for his next race.

Trainer Helen Pitts said Einstein could make his next start in the Grade 1 Stephen Foster Handicap, a 1o1/8-mile dirt race that anchors a six-stakes program June 16 at Churchill Downs.

With Albarado aboard, Einstein breezed five furlongs in 59.40 seconds on Sunday.

ELMONT, N.Y. - When Bill Badgett quit training at the end of 2004, he left the door ajar to someday returning. He has now busted that door down.

Badgett, best known as being the trainer of the Hall of Fame filly Go for Wand, has returned to training and will start his first horse, Out of Gwedda, in Saturday's Grade 2, $250,000 Woody Stephens Breeders' Cup Handicap at Belmont Park.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Paddy Gallagher's stable is in an enviable position this weekend at Hollywood Park.

In the two graded stakes for 3-year-old fillies, Gallagher starts leading contenders - Valbenny in Saturday's $175,000 Honeymoon Breeders' Cup Handicap on turf and Hucking Hot in Sunday's $150,000 Hollywood Breeders' Cup Oaks on the synthetic track.

At one point earlier in their careers, both Hucking Hot and Valbenny seemed ideally suited to the Honeymoon, but their careers have taken divergent paths in recent months.

Trainer Steve Asmussen will attempt to win the $100,000 fillies division of the Texas Thoroughbred Association Sales Futurity for the eighth time in nine years Saturday at Lone Star Park. He has qualified four fillies to this year's finale: Soar Above, Swamp Gator, Valid Lilly, and Value System.

Asmussen also qualified four horses for the $100,000 colts and geldings division of the TTA Sales Futurity, which will be part of the same card. Both restricted races are at five furlongs.