VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Golden Pursuit could be tough to handle in the feature race at Hastings Saturday, a 1 1/16-mile, $20,000 claiming race which drew eight older horses.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Alabama Rain makes his first appearance here at Northlands Park since capturing last year's Canadian Derby when he takes on just four rivals in Saturday's City of Edmonton Championship. The 1 1/16-mile City of Edmonton closes out the annual summer exhibition and will be headed by Quiet Cash, a winner of two stakes this year at Hastings.

Two-time stakes winner Urban Guy faces a challenge from horse-for-the-course Master of Disaster in Saturday's $54,000 Oh Say Stakes at Delaware Park.

The six-furlong sprint for 3-year-olds drew a field of 10, including a three-horse coupled entry.

Urban Guy, trained by Tim Ritchey, won the Mountain Valley at Oaklawn Park in February and the Fran "Jock" LaBelle Memorial at Delaware in early May. He returns to his home track, where he is 3 for 3, after being well beaten in the Grade 3 Hirsch Jacobs at Pimlico and the Ziggys Boy at Belmont Park.

Dreaming of Anna will be favored off her impressive maiden win in Chicago, but pedigree players looking for value in the $60,000 Tippett for 2-year-old fillies at Colonial Downs would be wise to take a long look at Changeisgonnacome.

Although she is one of four maidens in a 13-horse field going 5 1/2 furlongs on turf, Changeisgonnacome has a license to outrun her 10-1 morning-line odds.

Newly crowned New England horse of the year Ask Queenie will try to snap a two-race losing streak by racing against fellow Massachusetts-bred fillies and mares in Saturday's $40,000 First Episode Stakes at Suffolk Downs.

Many of the statebred horses who ran well on last year's Pennsylvania's Day at the Races card will be back for an encore Saturday afternoon at Philadelphia Park.

Five of the six stakes, worth $50,000 apiece, that will showcase some of the top Pennsylvania-breds in training contain runners that either won or finished second a year ago.

The race with the biggest field, and the most intriguing betting race, is the Mrs. Penny, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for fillies and mares that goes as race 9 on the 10-race program.

MIAMI - The Georgia Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association Juvenile Filly Turf Dash drew a full field of 12 to go five furlongs on the turf, weather permitting, at Calder on Saturday. And there won't be a Georgia-bred in the house.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - While the focus will be on the continuing rivalry between Kimchi and Sweet Breanna, Pleasant Amelia will be looking to steal the spotlight in Saturday's $500,000 Wonder Where here at Woodbine.

Pleasant Amelia, owned and bred by George Strawbridge Jr. and trained by Mac Benson, will be making her stakes debut in the Wonder Where, a 1 1/4-mile turf race for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Ominous dark clouds hovered over Saratoga Race Course early Thursday evening, so track and turf course conditions may differ from the first two days of the meet, depending on how much (if any) rain fell after this was written.

Scat Daddy showed he has some guts to go along with his talent.

Seemingly beaten at the sixteenth pole, Scat Daddy somehow was able to run down the pacesetting Teuflesberg to win the Grade 2, $150,000 at Saratoga. It was 5 1/2 lengths back to War Wolf in third. Trip to the Bank and Bagger Vance completed the order of finish.