AUBURN, Wash. - Nineteen hopefuls will prep for the Grade 3 Longacres Mile on Aug. 20 in either of two stakes on Sunday's Mile Preview Day program.

Flamethrowintexan, who was nominated for both stakes and drew an identical highweight assignment of 120 pounds in each, will head a field of 10 in the $100,000 Mt. Rainier Breeders' Cup Handicap at nine furlongs.

Magnificent Song, under Garrett Gomez, rallied from last place to run down stablemate Somethinaboutbetty to win Friday's Grade 3, $112,900 by one length at soggy Saratoga.

Somethinaboutbetty, who set the early pace, finished second by 1 3/4 lengths over Quite a Bride, who suffered her first career defeat on turf after four straight wins.

Magnificent Song and Somethinaboutbetty are both trained by Todd Pletcher, who has won the first three graded stakes of the meet.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Biscay Appeal tries to win his third straight race when he tackles five other older horses in the fourth race at Hastings Sunday. The 6 1/2-furlong sprint for $15,000 claimers appears to be a wide-open event.

EDMONTON, Alberta - She's Italian, runner-up to Gabe's Prospect in the Penny Ridge at Stampede Park, heads a field of five in a one-mile optional claimer for 3-year-old fillies here at Northlands Park Sunday.

She's Italian, owned by Rocky Mountain Turf Club Stable, is coming off a victory under similar conditions in mid-July as the 7-5 favorite. She's Italian finished fourth to Mia Cat Dancer in the Lilac Handicap earlier this spring. Trained by Doug MacDonald, She's Italian will retain the riding services of Ron Blinston.

DEL MAR, Calif. - Buzzards Bay, the winner of the Oaklawn Handicap in April and one of the nation's top older horses, is unlikely to start at the Del Mar meeting and may have only one prep race before the Breeders' Cup Classic at Churchill Downs on Nov. 4, trainer Ron Ellis said on Friday.

Ellis said that Buzzards Bay will be shipped to Santa Anita and will be based with his stable there for the rest of the summer. Ellis said that Buzzards Bay did not handle the Del Mar track well in a half-mile workout on Tuesday.

"I didn't like the reaction in his legs," Ellis said.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Anticipating the rain that turned Saratoga's main track into a sea of slop Friday afternoon, trainer Kiaran McLaughlin put two of his graded stakes winners through workouts over a fast track Friday morning.

Nearly every experienced jockey has had to avoid a collision in his riding career, be it with a fallen horse or rider, or perhaps even with a bird or another animal that has wandered onto the racetrack.

MIAMI - Racing secretary Mike Anifantis released his weights for next weekend's $250,000 Turf Sprint Championship and its filly counterpart, the $250,000 Distaff Turf Sprint Championship on Friday, and is expecting the highweights in both races to ship to south Florida for the big day.

Anifantis assigned Atticus Kristy top weight of 120 pounds for the five-furlong Turf Sprint Championship, one more than trainer Patrick Biancone's Australian-bred Man of Illusion.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Sunday's $50,000-added Ernest Finley Handicap at the Sonoma County Fair seems pretty straightforward. Although there are four horses who like the lead, no one can match the early speed of Stone Rain, who has won four straight in wire-to-wire fashion at Sunday's six-furlong distance.

Most recently, Stone Rain scored a five-length win in the Sam Whiting at Pleasanton on July 8.

"Every race on paper, it looks like there's someone who might go for the lead against him, but he always seems to get the lead," said his trainer, Billy Morey.

Online to Go owns the best Beyer Speed Figure and the widest margin of victory among the dozen lightly raced 2-year-olds who will race 5 1/2 furlongs on turf in Sunday's $60,000 Chenery Stakes at Colonial Downs.

But since Online to Go's 8 3/4-length romp and 69 Beyer came three months ago in a dirt sprint at Pimlico, savvy bettors may want to think long and hard about taking a short price. Online to Go, trained by Tim Salzman, is listed as the 9-5 favorite on the track's morning line off that debut win.