ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Owner Robert Costigan and trainer Mac Benson were fortunate enough to campaign Inish Glora, the Sovereign Award-winning champion turf female in each of the past two years. They could have another budding turf star in Arravale, a contestant in Sunday's $172,800 Natalma Stakes, a one-mile race for 2-year-old fillies at Woodbine.

Arravale closed wide from midpack to win her Aug. 13 debut in a seven-furlong maiden special weight race on the grass. She galloped out strongly under jockey David Clark.

AUBURN, Wash. - Tusko T. will head a field of seven 2-year-olds in Sunday's $50,000 WTBA Lads Stakes, the first mile race for the division at the Emerald meeting.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - A full field of 11 2-year-old fillies line up in the fillies division of the CTHS Sales Stakes at Hastings Sunday. It's a wide-open affair, but if One of the Feu is as good as a couple of her siblings, she could be tough to beat. The 6 1/2-furlong race is restricted to Canadian-bred fillies that have gone through a Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society Sale.

COLUMBUS, Neb. - The curtain comes down on the race meet at Columbus on Sunday with a pair of 2-year-old stakes for Nebraska-breds, as well as a tribute to the victims and heroes of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The ceremony will be presented between the fourth and fifth races Sunday and will include recognition of local police, fire and sheriff's departments, plus the National Guard. The Honor Guard will present a 21-gun salute, and "Taps" will be played by a representative from the local American Legion.

Royal Saint, who has established himself as one of the top 3-year-olds at Louisiana Downs with four wins this meet, is now being pointed for the Grade 2, $750,000 Super Derby at Louisiana Downs on Oct. 1. He earned a fees-paid berth into the race last Monday when he won the local prep, the $50,000 Prelude.

The 1 1/16-mile race was the fourth straight victory for Royal Saint, an easy-going colt who overtook pacesetter Key Issues for a three-quarter length win.

MIAMI - At 2, Cin Cin was rated near the top of the local class. That makes it all the more hard to believe that Cin Cin will be in search of his first victory as a 3-year-old Sunday, when he takes on five older rivals entered to go six furlongs in a $30,000 allowance feature at Calder.

POMONA, Calif. - Barreling through the first turn of the fourth race Friday, opening day of the Los Angeles County Fair race meet "was like a flashback," said jockey David Flores. Was it ever.

Flores is back at his old stomping grounds, and his first ride Friday marked a return for the jockey who once dominated the bullring. Flores plans to ride the entire 16-day meet for the first time since 1998. The leading Fairplex rider six straight years (1989-94), and the second-leading rider all time behind Martin Pedroza, Flores adds needed depth to the colony.

SAN MATEO, Calif. - Lightly raced 3-year-old Too Much Pine Tar faces older opponents in Sunday's Bay Meadows feature, a 1 1/16-mile allowance race on the turf that has lured a full field.

Too Much Pine Tar rallied from well off the pace to win his debut at 5 1/2 furlongs as the favorite in a bottom-level $8,000 maiden claimer on June 19. He jumped to $40,000 starter allowance company for his next start, when he was favored again, winning at six furlongs at Solano.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Most of the scuttlebutt this week will center on next Sunday's Grade 1, $1 million Atto Mile on turf for 3-year-olds and upward.

But the Canadian Handicap and the Summer, a pair of Grade 2 turf stakes on the Atto Mile undercard, would stand as features in their own right.

The Canadian, a 1 1/8-mile race worth $300,000, is the division's major local stepping-stone to the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes, a 1 1/4-mile turf race worth a record $1 million on Oct. 23.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Terry Clyde has reached the top of the trainer standings at Hastings and leads a strong list of female trainers here, including Barb Heads, Cindy Krasner, Toni Jacobson Cloutier, and Janet Armstrong.

Clyde, 43, is on a roll right now, and with 27 wins she is tied with Gary Demorest for the lead in the trainer standings. There is still a lot of racing left, but Clyde is in a good position to become the first woman to earn leading trainer honors at Hastings.