MIAMI - In Summation lost the photo to Blazing Rate but won the respect of everybody who watched Saturday's $400,000 In Reality Stakes at Calder, the finale of the open division of the Florida Stallion Stakes.

ALBANY, Calif. - The bluebloods will be out in force in Thursday's Golden Gate Fields feature. Three of the five 2-year-old fillies entered in first-level allowance race at six furlongs were sold for $160,000 or more. The other two, while sold for more modest prices, have shown plenty of ability.

Brahms Allegro, who won her debut Oct. 1 at Bay Meadows, was a $450,000 yearling purchase by Stonestreet Stables at Keeneland in September 2004.

Golden Rainbow earned a career-best Beyer Speed Figure of 103 in an allowance win in his last start, and the triple-digit number could send him off as the favorite Friday night in the $150,000 Oklahoma Derby at Remington Park.

was one of 10 to pass through the entry box on Tuesday for the 1 1/8-mile race.

CHICAGO - Regulars on the Chicago circuit know that come fall the entry-level allowance condition begins opening up to all comers. A horse that might be a claimer - either open or conditioned - during the summer at Arlington can find a winnable allowance spot at the Hawthorne fall meet.

That's why none of the seven horses entered in the nominally featured third race on Thursday at Hawthorne should quickly be discounted. The race is for entry-level Illinois-bred fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles on dirt.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Though there isn't a sign in or around Belmont Park acknowledging that the 22nd Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships will be held here on Oct. 29, there were plenty of signs on three of Belmont's tracks Monday morning that North America's richest day of Thoroughbred racing is fast approaching.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Sunday was Breeders' Cup dress rehearsal day for Choctaw Nation and Wild Fit, two of the horses that trainer Jeff Mullins is sending to Belmont Park on Oct. 29.

To replicate the Belmont Park system of horses being placed in a security barn for six hours before racing, Mullins did just that with Choctaw Nation and Wild Fit at Santa Anita on Sunday morning and then worked the pair just before lunchtime.

After Wild Fit worked six furlongs in 1:13.40 and Choctaw Nation went in 1:13.20, Mullins considered the simulation to be a success.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Jill's Sky set too fast of a pace when she returned from a four-month layoff on Sept. 28. As she faded to finish eighth in a one-mile allowance race on turf, owner Toby Turrell shrugged and looked toward the future.

The filly's next chance for a win comes on Wednesday in a $45,000 allowance race for California-bred 3-year-old fillies at Santa Anita. Even though the distance of 1 1/8 miles on turf will be the longest of Jill's Sky's career, Turrell is convinced that she can handle the trip - as long as she does not burn out too early.

ELMONT, N.Y. - Woke Up Dreamin's retirement is on hold.

Though he won't run in the Breeders' Cup Sprint, Woke Up Dreamin could very well return to the races later this year. On Monday, Woke Up Dreamin worked four furlongs in 47.18 seconds over Belmont's training track, his first breeze since he finished ninth in the Vosburgh here on Oct. 1. Woke up Dreamin worked in company with Prideland, an allowance horse trained by John Terranova.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Nobody has to tell Robby Albarado that racing is a game of inches. The veteran jockey was smack in the middle of bang-bang photo finishes in the two graded stakes run last weekend at Keeneland, losing one in gut-wrenching fashion and winning another with a minor assist from the racing gods.

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Graham Motion might just be here for the weather. And why wouldn't he? With the exception of a drizzly opening day, the weather just doesn't get any better than it has been through the first half of the 17-day fall meet at Keeneland.

Of course, Motion has an even better reason for making the long trek from his home in northeastern Maryland: to run good horses in big-money races. As the meet reaches its midpoint Wednesday, the veteran trainer has won with 3 of 7 starters, including a victory last week with T. D. Vance in the Bryan Station Stakes.