Shug McGaughey toyed with the idea of running Five Star Daydream in Saturday’s Grade 1, $400,000 Frizette Stakes. But McGaughey does not want to get in a hurry with her and instead took a more conservative route.

McGaughey entered Five Star Daydream in Sunday’s $65,000 Hot Milk Stakes at Belmont, where she looks to have five rivals at her mercy in the six-furlong race. Five Star Daydream, a 2-year-old daughter of Five Star Day, comes in off back-to-back sprint victories after a second-place finish to Magical Ride in her debut here in July.

PORTLAND, Ore. - Star Amethyst will make her Portland Meadows debut in Sunday's $20,000 Diane Kem Handicap, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares that has drawn a field of 10.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Bettors who wager against the best horse in the $100,000 Harold C. Ramser Handicap cannot exhale until Diplomat Lady surrenders in deep stretch of the mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.

Diplomat Lady is the richest and fastest of nine entered in the Ramser on Sunday at Santa Anita, but since a 39-1 upset last fall in the Hollywood Starlet, the front-runner has not reproduced top form over a distance of ground, and never raced on turf.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - There are seven horses entered in the Grade 3, $125,000 added B.C. Premiers at Hastings on Sunday, but the race really shapes up as a heavyweight match between True Metropolitan and Spaghetti Mouse.

With four dominating stakes wins in Alberta, True Metropolitan has wrapped up provincial honors. With a win over Spaghetti Mouse in the 1o3/8-mile Premiers, True Metropolitan would end up as the top handicap horse in British Columbia as well.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Since the portable rail has been moved out 24 feet, speed has become a hot commodity on the Belmont Park turf courses. That fact, and her rail post position, should benefit in Sunday's Grade 3, $100,000 Athenia Handicap.

Pommes Frites, one of two entrants for trainer Bill Mott, heads an eight-horse field entered in the Athenia, scheduled for 1 1/16 miles over Belmont's inner turf. Mott has also entered Thetactics Ofdance.

For an ungraded race, the $150,000 Bryan Station Stakes came up a little salty, horsemen might say. Not only did it attract the winners of the Grade 2 American Derby (Union Avenue) and the Grade 3 Arlington Classic (Kingship), it also attracted a winner of five straight races in New York (Gimme Credit) and a speedy colt who ran second behind Showing Up in the $1 million Colonial Turf Cup (Kip Deville).

Debut winners Mike Fox and Leonnatus Anteas both move to the turf for their second start Sunday to contest the $250,000 Cup and Saucer Stakes at Woodbine.

Mike Fox, a son of popular young sire Giant's Causeway, is the first foal from Alexis, who won the Grade 3 Dance Smartly Handicap here on the grass in 2001. Mike Fox won his debut in a mile and 70-yard maiden special on Polytrack Sept. 3. He dueled through moderate fractions and scored by a half-length over Angel of the House and Skip Code, who subsequently won his maiden and Monday's Grade 3 Grey BC Cup Stakes.

The move to double the minimum purses for open stakes at the Portland Meadows meeting from $10,000 to $20,000 is paying dividends.

The larger purse for Sunday's six-furlong Diane Kem Handicap convinced the connections of several fillies and mares who raced at Emerald Downs to extend their campaigns for at least one more race. Chief among the Emerald invaders is Star Amethyst, the highweight and probable favorite for the Kem.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - In a field packed with stakes-proven 3-year-olds, a colt making his stakes debut cruised to victory Friday in the $200,000 Perryville Stakes at Keeneland. Midnight Lute captured the Grade 3 race in frighteningly easy fashion, leaving his trainer, Bob Baffert, to wonder what might lay ahead.

"I don't know what I'm going to do next with this horse," said Baffert. "All I know is we're going to give him a lot of love."

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Next Sunday's $2 million Canadian International and $1 million E.P. Taylor Stakes are beginning to take shape, and early indications are that there will be decent-sized fields for both Grade 1 turf races here at Woodbine.

The Canadian International, a 1o1/2-mile race for 3-year-olds and upward, and the E.P. Taylor, a 1 1/4-mile race for fillies and mares, will be joined on the Oct. 22 card by the Grade 2, $500,000 Nearctic, a six-furlong turf race for 3-year-olds and upward.