DEL MAR, Calif. - Divide and Conquer, who finished sixth in the Grade 2 Best Pal Stakes on Aug. 13 in his stakes debut, has been added to the field for Wednesday's $250,000 Del Mar Futurity.

The Grade 2 Futurity is the closing day feature of this meeting. The Los Angeles County Fair meeting at Fairplex Park begins on Friday.

Owned by Little Red Feather Racing, Divide and Conquer is one of five probable starters in the Grade 2 Futurity, which is run at seven furlongs. The other expected starters are Great Hunter, Horse Greeley, Prime Ruler, and Stormello.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Following Monday's closing day card at Saratoga, horsemen and racing fans will have three days to catch their breath before the Friday opening of Belmont Park's 33-day fall meet.

The Belmont meet will come roaring out of the gate Saturday with three Grade 1 races, two of which could play pivotal roles in determining champions in two divisions.

ALBANY, Calif. - The millionaire Texcess, Grade 2 winner Spellbinder, and local multiple stakes winner Sharp Writer are among the eight runners in the Grade 3, $150,000 Berkeley Handicap at Golden Gate Fields on Monday. But they will have to beat Gotaghostofachance, who returns off a long layoff in the 1 1/16-mile race.

Gotaghostofachance has more than a ghost of a chance here, even though he will be making his first start since winning the seven-furlong Grade 2 Sport Page last October at Belmont.

RUIDOSO, N.M. - The undefeated two-time Grade 1 winner Okey Dokey Fantasy puts his 8-for-8 record on the line when he faces a deep field in the Grade 1, $1.9 million All American Futurity at 440 yards on Monday afternoon, closing day of the summer season at Ruidoso Downs.

The 10 qualifiers to Quarter Horse racing's richest race include seven juveniles who have won or placed in Grade 1 futurities, and another finalist, My First Passion, who won the Grade 2 Firecracker Futurity.

AUBURN, Wash. - A full field of 12 3-year-olds will contest Monday's $100,000 Emerald Downs Breeders' Cup Derby at 1 1/8 miles, but Brother Bobby won't be in it.

The lightly raced Brother Bobby, who almost certainly would have been favored off the big late run that netted second in last month's Seattle Slew Handicap, was excluded when 13 horses with more earnings were entered. Also excluded was Coach Sween, a winner of two of his five starts.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Freetoleave, a drawing-off winner of the six-furlong Edmonton Juvenile here Aug. 4, faces just five rivals in the featured Birdcatcher on Monday's holiday program here at Northlands Park.

Freetoleave, a Florida-bred son of Successful Appeal owned by Willow Hill Farm, tries 6 1/2 furlongs for the first time in the $50,000 Birdcatcher, in which all starters carry 118 pounds.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Spaghetti Mouse could have a slight edge over a very tough Notis Otis in the $50,000 S.W. Randall Plate at Hastings Monday. Although six older horses have been entered in the 1 1/8-mile feature, the spotlight will be focused sharply on Spaghetti Mouse and Notis Otis, who appear to be standouts.

FORT ERIE, Ontario - Trainer Jason Giliforte said that he has his swimming technique down pat for Labor Day.

Giliforte hopes to display his prowess following the running of the Puss n Boots Cup on Monday. It's been an unbroken tradition that someone on the winning crew celebrates with a plunge into one of the three infield lakes here at the Fort.

The tradition was born when owner Robert Elkins fulfilled a pledge and dived fully clothed into a lake after his Dancing With Beans scored in the 1996 Puss n Boots.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - A competitive field comprising four older females and four 3-year-old fillies goes in the restricted $40,000 Distaff Stakes over one mile here at Assiniboia Downs on Monday.

Pete's Surprise won the 2001 Distaff and was second in the 2004 version. All three of her wins have come in one-mile stakes races.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - After winning the last three runnings of the Halton Stakes with the now-retired Mobil, trainer Mike Keogh will try to make it four in a row Monday with Sextet.

A one-mile grass race, the Halton is one of six $125,000 stakes on the Woodbine card that are restricted to graduates of local yearling sales.

Sextet, a son of 1996 Canadian International winner Singspiel, finished third in the 2005 Halton. He may be peaking this year at age 5 and recently captured a 1 1/4-mile allowance with an eye-catching wide rally under Emile Ramsammy.