ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Unification, winner of the Grade 3 Grey Stakes here Oct. 10, arrived at Woodbine on Wednesday for Sunday's $250,000 Coronation Futurity.

The Coronation, a 1 1/8-mile race for Canadian-bred 2-year-olds, was to have been Unification's third start in Canada, making him eligible for a Sovereign Award.

But on Friday morning, Unification was on his way back to his Saratoga base, trainer Eoin Harty's Coronation plans in tatters.

While Unification was free to enter the Coronation, his owner, Darley Stable, decided against running.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Friday's program at Santa Anita features the largest carryover of the Oak Tree meeting - $366,827.

Friday, the pick six covers the third through eighth races, all of which have decent sized fields.

There are no major changes in the pick six races, which features three races on dirt and three on turf.

The third race is run over 1 1-8 miles on turf for maidens. Singalong and Hallowed Dream are the top contenders.

The fourth race is run over 5 1-2 furlongs, a starter allowance. Special Favor will go favored.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Latice has already shown she can win off a long layoff. Saturday, she will try to prove herself equally adept when running back on short notice.

Latice, the 2004 French Oaks winner, heads a field of seven entered in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 , scheduled for 1 1/2 miles over Aqueduct's turf course. The Long Island tops a 10-race card that also includes the Grade 3 Turnback the Alarm Handicap for fillies and mares on dirt.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Todd Pletcher said good-bye to his champion mare Ashado early Thursday morning and a few hours later bristled at the suggestion that anyone could fill her shoes.

In her first three starts, however, Indian Vale looked like a star in the making, especially at Saratoga, where she won a pair of allowance races by double-digit lengths. Indian Vale bombed in her stakes debut, however, finishing fifth as the 2-5 favorite in the Grade 2 Cotillion Handicap at Philadelphia Park.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Ramon Dominguez will be at Aqueduct on Saturday to ride several horses, including Spotlight in the Grade 2 Long Island Handicap. Beginning at the end of December, Dominguez will ride here on a regular basis.

Dominguez, the nation's leading rider in wins in 2001 and 2003, will begin riding in New York full time Dec. 29, his agent, Steve Rushing, confirmed Thursday. Dominguez regularly rides on the Delaware circuit, with the exception of last summer, when he rode at Saratoga. Dominguez won 20 races from 196 mounts at Saratoga.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Stars of Tomorrow? What's wrong with today?

Indeed, Saturday would be a very good day for a 2-year-old to take a huge step forward at Churchill Downs, where the first "Stars of Tomorrow" program is being held. The high point of the 11-race card - which consists entirely of 2-year-old races - is the $100,000 Iroquois Stakes, a Grade 3 race that drew an exceptionally deep field of 13.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The familiar dilemma of whether a flashy first-out Beyer Speed Figure can trump less spectacular but more established form will be part of the handicapping equation Saturday when French Park steps up in the one-mile Pocahontas Stakes at Churchill Downs.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The absence of turf racing at the Hollywood fall meeting has made Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 at Santa Anita the most important turf race in California between now and the resumption of racing at Santa Anita on Dec. 26.

A one-mile race for fillies and mares, the Las Palmas has drawn 10, including Mea Domina, the winner of the Grade 1 Gamely Breeders' Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park in May.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Trainer Craig Lewis and owners Al and Sandee Kirkwood had three races to choose from on Sunday's California Cup for their millionaire mare Valentine Dancer. The choices were the $150,000 Matron at 1 1/16 miles on the main track, the $150,000 Distaff at about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, or the $100,000 Distance Handicap at 1 1/4 miles on turf.

Valentine Dancer is proven in longer races on both turf and dirt, which made their decision to go for the Distaff a surprise.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hollywood Park will conduct a trimmed-down autumn meeting without turf racing, and purse money from Hollywood will be redirected to Golden Gate Fields to augment the northern California turf racing purse structure. The Hollywood meet begins Wednesday.

Hollywood officials and the Thoroughbred Owners of California are finalizing a revised purse agreement that reduces the 31-day fall meet to 27 days, increases overnight dirt-only purses 12 to 14 percent, and allows for $166,000 in purse money be allocated to turf races at Golden Gate.