ALBANY, Calif. - Stormin' Lyon, who missed out on a chance to run against the undefeated Lost in the Fog in the Bay Meadows Speed Handicap because of a minor race-day mishap, heads the field for Saturday's $50,000-added Sausalito Stakes at Golden Gate Fields.
The six-furlong sprint, which will be run as the first race of the day with a post time of 11:30 a.m. Pacific, drew five entrants.
Scottsbluff looks to take another step up in the 3-year-old sprint ranks when he runs in Saturday's $40,000 Saguaro Stakes at Turf Paradise.
Trained by Dan Morgan, Scottsbluff is the horse to beat but will have his hands full in the Saguaro, a six-furlong event in which he faces six others, all of whom have significant ability.
Clever Cash makes her local debut Saturday in the $50,000 Permian Basin at Zia Park, a six-furlong race for 2-year-old fillies.
Clever Cash won her only start, cruising to an eight-length win in a maiden claiming race at Calder Race Course on Sept. 16. She earned a Beyer Speed Figure of 71, the highest of any starter in the Permian Basin.
Clever Cash, who makes her first start for owner Joe Davis and trainer Chris Hartman, has put in two works at Zia.
Paz Ciudadana's tour of the region makes a stop at Sam Houston Race Park on Saturday night, where she will attempt to win her fourth straight stakes race in the $40,000 Houston Chronicle.
The 1 1/16-mile turf race for fillies and mares, the first stakes of the meet, drew a field of 10.
Since August, Paz Ciudadana has won the $50,000 Margarita Breeders' Cup at Retama Park, the $40,000 Ricks Memorial at Remington Park, and the $40,000 Cornucopia Handicap at Louisiana Downs in her last three starts.
Multiple stakes winner Just Michel is the likely favorite going six furlongs against seven other Ohio-bred fillies and mares in the $40,000 Scarlet and Gray Handicap at Beulah Park.
Just Michel, who does her best running from off the pace, has won 5 of her 8 starts this year, including three straight stakes.
West Virginia shipper True Kiss and a strong entry from trainer Gerald Bennett's barn head the competition for a pair of restricted stakes at Great Lakes Downs.
Each race is worth $42,500. They will be contested at one mile and are restricted to the 3-year-old progeny of the 2001 Michigan Thorough-bred Owners and Breeders Assoc-iation stallion season auction.
Ranger B. steps up from the claiming ranks for the $40,000 Osage Hills at Remington Park, but he looks like the controlling speed in the five-furlong turf race, restricted to horses bred in Oklahoma.
Most in the field of 11 are stakes winners or stakes placed, but few are as quick from the gate as Ranger B. He has broken on top in his last eight starts, and judging from his win in an optional claiming event two races back, he should be prominent.
The Woodlands in Kansas City, Kan., will close out its meet with its richest card, as five stakes will be decided, led by the $20,000 Woodlands Juvenile for Thoroughbreds and the $100,000 estimated Kansas Jackpot Futurity for Quarter Horses.
Kelly Carson will take on males in the Juvenile, a six-furlong race that drew 12. She beat them in her last race, when she won the $10,000 Club House at Columbus over Slew Lucky, who returned in his next start to win an allowance. Kelly Carson is by Lord Carson, and her dam, Mips, was a two-time stakes winner who earned $200,404.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - The brilliantly fast Devil's Bride makes her much-anticipated second start Saturday at Woodbine in the $166,050 Fanfreluche, a six-furlong stakes for Ontario-foaled 2-year-old fillies.
Devil's Bride was bet down to 3-5 when she debuted in a five-furlong maiden special dash Sept. 7, and led all the way for a 6 1/2-length tally. Her time of 57.80 seconds translated into a Beyer Speed Figure of 74.
Trainer Reade Baker said he has always been high on Devil's Bride, a flashy chestnut by Devil's Bag.
PORTLAND, Ore. - Trainer Rolland Fergason is back campaigning full time at Portland Meadows for the first time since the 1998-99 meeting, when he won the training title with what was then a record 48 wins. His brother, Jim Fergason, broke that record at the 2003-04 stand, with 50 wins.
Rolland Fergason and his wife, Debora, have started several horses here in the intervening years, but he has spent most of his time racing in Arizona and New Mexico.
