ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Regardless of how he does in Sunday's $125,000 Kennedy Road Stakes, Judiths Wild Rush has probably already locked up the Sovereign Award for Canadian champion sprinter, an honor he won last year.
Judiths Wild Rush was competitive in several American graded stakes this year, which has given him the upper hand on Woodbine's other leading sprinters, who have taken turns beating each other.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Stephanson will try to win his third straight race at Hastings when he takes on Mountain Musician in an allowance race for 2-year-olds that haven't won a stakes race. The 6 1/2-furlong feature attracted 11 horses and goes as the seventh race.
Nobiz Like Shobiz, who would have been a top contender in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile but did not run, was one of 18 horses pre-entered Wednesday in the Grade 3, $1 million Delta Jackpot. The 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-olds will be run at Delta Downs on Dec. 1.
Costa Rising is returning to the Louisiana-bred ranks for Saturday night's $100,000 Gold Cup at Delta Downs, and although he won six straight statebred races between April and August, he finds himself in the unusual position of having questions to answer heading into the 1 1/16-mile race. Costa Rising is returning on short rest, he comes into the race off two rare defeats, and he is making his first start over the six-furlong track at Delta.
"There are questions we just can't answer until we run," said Charles Castille Jr., who owns Costa Rising.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Tinseltown, in peak career form, bids for his first open stakes victory in the Grade 3, $100,000 Stuyvesant Handicap Saturday at Aqueduct.
A 4-year-old colt trained by Jimmy Jerkens, Tinseltown faces six rivals in the 1 1/8-mile race, which has been shifted from the main track to the inner track. With heavy rain in the forecast, the Big A moved the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday cards from the main track to the inner to avoid problems like those that resulted in a cancellation on Nov. 9.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The farther they go the better for Crescent Remark, who may be favored in the final leg of the Pacific Customs Brokers Ltd. Endurance Series at Hastings Saturday.
The 2 1/8-mile race, for 3-year-olds and up that started for $8,000 or less in 2005-2006, drew eight horses and will go as the seventh race. The purse is a hefty $40,000.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Edenwold, winner of the Queen's Plate in June, has been basking in relative anonymity in recent months.
But that could change in a big way at Woodbine on Saturday if Edenwold, who is owned by Jim and Alice Sapara and trained by Josie Carroll, can handle a strong field of older rivals in the $125,000 Woodbine Slots Cup.
"It's a tough field," Carroll said. "And it's a bit of a test for a 3-year-old against this kind of older horses.
"But at this time of year, that's what we have to do."
SAN MATEO, Calif. - Since she was bought at a dispersal sale in February, Somethinaboutlaura has done virtually everything her trainer and part-owner Jerry Hollendorfer has asked of her. The 4-year-old filly seeks her third straight stakes victory in Saturday's $55,000-added Autumn Leaves Handicap at Bay Meadows. She has five rivals in the 1 1/16-mile race.