BOSSIER CITY, La. - Trainer Cody Autrey has had nothing short of a break-out year in 2006, saddling winners at a 24 percent clip and winning 72 times. Before expanding operations this year and last, Autrey was known more for "project" horses, usually taking those with some class potential in the mid- to upper claiming levels and turning them into allowance and stakes performers. He has one such representative in Sunday's allowance feature in the form of Red Soldier.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Commentator, the talented New York-bred gelding who finished 10th as the favorite in the Grade 1 Forego on Sept. 2, will attempt to train up to the Breeders' Cup Sprint, trainer Nick Zito said Friday.

MIAMI - On paper, Formal Miss appears to be a standout against nine other fillies and mares in Sunday's $45,000 Capital Request Stakes at Calder. But that doesn't necessarily make her a good bet in the overnight stakes, scheduled to be run at 7 1/2 furlongs on the turf.

Trained by Paul Maxwell, Formal Miss has been among the leaders of the local filly-and-mare turf division for the last several seasons.

ARCADIA, Calif. - It took nearly three years for Healthy Addiction to reach the top of a jumbled division. Her challenge Sunday is to stay there.

Five fillies and mares entered the Grade 2 Lady's Secret Handicap, a 1 1/16-mile race that is the California farewell for Healthy Addiction, the favorite. A durable Grade 1 winner, Healthy Addiction will race once more, in the Breeders' Cup Distaff, before she retires.

The Arlington Park main track played fast for much of the meet that concluded a couple Tuesdays ago, but just as notable were the number of paceless turf races. Time and time again the fractional times in a grass race would be posted, and any horseplayer or horse-person with a deep closer would groan: How could your steed rally and win when the front-runners weren't going to be slowing down?

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Did Fleet Storm bounce in his last race, the Don Valliere Memorial Cup here at Fort Erie on Sept. 10? Or did he merely lack racing luck?

Maybe it was a bit of both.

As the heavy favorite, Fleet Storm finished sixth that day in what appeared to be a lackluster effort. Fleet Storm had earned a career-high Beyer Speed Figure of 82 three weeks earlier for his 1 1/2-length win in the Anderson Memorial Cup.

"He trained good and everything before the race," said trainer John Simms.

Trainer Greg Gilchrist calls Smokey Stover "the most over-trained 3-year-old in California."

A 3-year-old gelding, Smokey Stover has run four times since he won his debut by 2 1/2 lengths Feb. 12. He has never been worse than second, and he won a stakes in his third start, the Stinson Beach on April 2.

But after that stakes victory, Gilchrist gave Smokey Stover 12 works before finding a race for him at Del Mar nearly four months later.

Westsideclyde seeks his sixth victory of the meeting in the $20,000 Colterkind starter handicap on Sunday's closing-day card at Emerald Downs. A one-mile race, the Colterkind drew a field of 10 horses who have started for $15,000 or less in 2005-06.

The Colterkind is one of six starter handicaps Sunday whose purses have been enhanced by the Stanislaw Ashbaugh law firm. Together, the races form the Stanislaw Ashbaugh Claiming Challenge, which is designed to reward claiming horses, the backbone of most race meets.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Shillelagh Slew will try to nail down this year's Sovereign Award for Canadian champion 3-year-old in Sunday's Grade 3, $200,000 Ontario Derby at Woodbine.

After ending up fifth in the June 25 Queen's Plate, Shillelagh Slew took the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, by disqualification. He was third here on the grass in the final race of the series, the Breeders' Stakes.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Shillelagh Slew will try to nail down this year's Sovereign Award for Canadian champion 3-year-old in Sunday's Grade 3, $200,000 Ontario Derby at Woodbine.

After ending up fifth in the June 25 Queen's Plate, Shillelagh Slew took the second leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, by disqualification. He was third here on the grass in the final race of the series, the Breeders' Stakes.