MIAMI - One Off, second in the Grade 2 San Juan Capistrano Handicap earlier this season, will top a field of nine in Saturday's inaugural running of the $250,000 Bob Umphrey Turf Marathon Handicap, a two-mile grass race named after Calder's late racing secretary.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - has been a lightning rod for boxcar prices, but he might be the favorite in the featured eighth race on Friday at Arlington Park.

ELMONT, N.Y. - It was not surprising that Gary Contessa won both the Aqueduct inner-track and main-track trainer titles. He had won both meets at least once previously. It is somewhat surprising, however, that entering the final week of the meet, Contessa is in contention to win his first Belmont spring-summer crown.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Pyramid Park will prepare for the third leg of the Canadian Triple Crown, the Aug. 6 Breeders' Stakes on turf, in Friday's featured fourth race at Woodbine. The one-mile grass allowance for Ontario-sired runners has lured nine runners.

AUBURN, Wash. - Seven evenly matched fillies and mares, each eligible to be claimed for $30,000, vie at six furlongs in Friday's feature race at Emerald Downs. Star Amethyst may be a slight favorite off her affinity for the six-furlong distance.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Several starters from recent stakes, including the July 8 Spangled Jimmy, are dropping into a 1 1/16-mile optional claimer here at Northlands Park on Friday.

Royalty Boy drew the outside post in the field of 10. Trained by Bruce Phelan, Royalty Boy closed from the back of the field to edge Bonspiel for third in the Spangled Jimmy. Royalty Boy, winless since his 3-year-old campaign in 2004, was coming off a fourth-place finish in the Herald Gold Plate at Calgary a month earlier.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The last time Indy Lead won was April 19, 2003 when he led from start to finish to win a second-level allowance race at Keeneland. Indy Lead doesn't have a lot of speed now, but it looks like he has a very good chance of winning the seventh race at Hastings Friday evening. The $25,000 claiming race for 3-year-olds and up drew a field of seven.

This will be the first time Indy Lead has run in a straight claiming race, and he should be one of the favorites. Streak of Light and Tacky appear to be the ones to beat.

DEL MAR, Calif. - More than 14 months after his upset win in the Kentucky Derby and four months since his last start, Giacomo will make a comeback in Saturday's $250,000 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar.

The race is the first of three or four expected starts for Giacomo before the end of the year, when he is scheduled to go to stud in Kentucky. For the rest of the year, the goal for trainer John Shirreffs is to prove that Giacomo is a genuine top-class performer and that his Kentucky Derby win at 50-1 was not a fluke.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Even before last weekend, when he won four stakes and more than $1 million in purses, Todd Pletcher had become the eighth trainer in Thoroughbred history to surpass the $100 million mark in earnings. And he's only 39 years old.

Including a victory by Mercurius at Delaware Park on Wednesday, Pletcher's stable has earned $102,532,952 since it opened in late 1995. That number also includes $850,000 in purse money won in Dubai in March. This year, Pletcher's runners have earned $14,750,957 as he readies to break his 2005 record of $20,867,842.

MIAMI - Saturday's $2 million Summit of Speed card was full of surprises, not the least of which was the success of the locally based runners.