MIAMI - The final stakes of the 112-day Calder meet will be decided Sunday when 3-year-old fillies go six furlongs in the $45,000 Lady Sonata. The Tropical-at-Calder meeting opens Monday.

The enigmatic Running Lass may be the key to the Lady Sonata. The multiple stakes-winning 3-year-old is coming off one of the poorest performances of her career in the Judy's Red Shoes Stakes, where she finished ninth after racing rankly and striking the inner rail several times after being taken in hand shortly after the start of the 1 1/16-mile turf race.

Racing at Fort Erie Racetrack was canceled for Saturday and Sunday following an early-season snowstorm that began Thursday afternoon. The storm knocked out power in much of the Fort Erie region and it is not expected to be restored until Sunday.

Up to two feet of snow, stirred up by 60-mph winds, was dumped in the area.

Fort Erie's communications director, Daryl Wells Jr., said Fort Erie looked as if a hurricane had passed through.

STICKNEY, Ill. - At Arlington, Wayne Catalano is like the Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams, questing for a .400 batting average every summer. This year, running away with another training title there, Catalano hit .365, an awesome number considering the amount of stock his stable sent out. But savvy Hawthorne players take a different approach when Chicago racing action shifts across Chicagoland in late September. So far at this meet, Catalano's .125 batting average, rather than earning him a spot in the Hall of Fame, might get him sent down to the minors.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Trainer Terry Jordan is looking forward to spending a few quiet months in Acapulco, Mexico, after he closes shop at Hastings this weekend. The Hastings meet doesn't end until Nov. 26, but Jordan, who owns an apartment in Acapulco, has only two horses left in his barn, and both True Metropolitan and Cuss the Fiddle will be turned out after they run in their respective races Sunday.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Super Frolic, winless in six starts this year including a fifth in the Goodwood Breeders' Cup Handicap at the Oak Tree at Santa Anita meeting on Oct. 7, will make his next start in the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4, trainer Vladimir Cerin said.

Super Frolic, 6, is owned by Millennium Farms and is scheduled to go to stud at the end of the year. By Pine Bluff, Super Frolic has won 11 of 38 starts and $1,385,614.

EDMONTON, Alberta - An intensely competitive field of five has assembled for Sunday's $50,000 Western Canada here at Northlands Park.

Carrying high weight of 121 pounds in the 6 1/2-furlong handicap for 3-year-olds will be Teagues Fight, owned by Rocky Mountain Turf Club Stable and Don Gibb.

An Alberta-bred, Teagues Fight has looked very good this fall taking apart the competition in restricted stakes races.

It is far too soon to speculate whether any of the eight colts and geldings entered in the $40,000 Hillsdale Stakes on Sunday at Hoosier Park can match the success of the race's namesake, the most accomplished Indiana-bred in 50 years. But at least one of the race's promising statebred 2-year-olds has already shown himself to be of unusually high quality.

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.