ELMONT, N.Y. - Oh baby, is Steve Klesaris on a roll.

When Diabolical won Thursday's fourth race at Belmont Park by 9 3/4 lengths, it represented the fourth 2-year-old debut winner saddled by Klesaris at this meet. Add Master of Disaster, a first-out winner at Delaware Park, and Klesaris is 5 for 5 with debuting 2-year-olds this year.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Joint Effort won a maiden race with such ease last Sunday that trainer Dale Romans didn't see any harm in taking a quick peek at the Debutante Stakes.

"I really didn't enter with the intention of actually running," Romans said soon after a field of nine 2-year-old fillies was entered for the $100,000 Debutante Stakes, a Grade 3 race that will be run for the 105th time Saturday at Churchill Downs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Forest Music, arguably one of the fastest fillies in North America on her best day, had her first breeze this week at Churchill Downs since having been sold recently by Michael Gill to California vintner Jess Jackson.

Early Tuesday, Forest Music "went very, very easy" in a breeze that was not timed by Equibase clockers, said the filly's new trainer, Steve Asmussen. "I'm just in the process of trying to figure out who she is, so I have no idea what race will be her next one," he said.

WINNIPEG, Manitoba - Carl Anderson trains two of the four horses in Saturday's Manitoba Maturity at Assiniboia Downs, and his entrants, Simply Regal and Albarino, will likely be top two betting interests.

The Manitoba Maturity, a 1 1/16-mile race for Manitoba-bred 4-year-olds, offers a purse of $40,000.

Simply Regal began this season by running third in a second-level allowance race here May 8. He won at that condition in his next start, on June 4. Most recently, Simply Regal finished a closing second behind Iwoodificould in the Free Press Stakes on June 19.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan - Nine 3-year-old fillies were entered for Saturday's $6,000 Captain Stanley Harrison Handicap at Marquis Downs, which was rescheduled when the Canada Day card was canceled because of a large hole near the finish line caused by heavy recent rainfall. The speedy Similkameen Brew, who drew the 7-hole when the race was first drawn, got the best of the re-draw, moving to the rail.

The Captain Stanley is run over six furlongs, and there are three winners and six maidens set to run.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - Zarba the Great puts her four-race win streak on the line Saturday as she stretches out to two turns for the first time in Saturday's Lorelei Stakes. The 1 1/16-mile affair for 3-year-old fillies drew a field of seven and carries a $50,000 purse.

Locally based Lady Riss is the heavy favorite in Saturday's $40,000 Bungalow Stakes for fillies and mares going a mile at Fairmount Park, and for good reason.

The 4-year-old Lady Riss has 5 wins and 2 seconds in her last 9 races, dating back to late 2004, with Beyer Speed Figures consistently reaching the high 70's.

Among those victories was a decisive win on June 25 at a mile over defending Bungalow champion Princess Paster. The win was no fluke: The last four times Princess Paster has raced, Lady Riss has finished ahead of her.

Dress Right is riding a streak of three straight wins while My Hobby has been running well in routes against male competition, setting the stage for a showdown in the $20,000-added Breeders' Special for 3-year-old Nebraska-bred fillies at Nebraska State Fair Park in Lincoln.

Shazoomer, the fastest qualifier, and Wokatee, who is undefeated, will meet for the first time Saturday night in the Grade 1, $355,849 Texas Quarter Horse Association Sale Futurity, one of seven Quarter Horse stakes worth a cumulative $654,137 at Sam Houston Race Park.

Also on the program, one of the richest of the meet, are five qualifying stakes for the MBNA Challenge Championships. The winners of those stakes will earn berths into the national finals, to be held at Los Alamitos on Nov. 5.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - The Dr. Fager Stakes on Saturday at Arlington falls 21 days before the $300,000 Washington Park Handicap, and the connections of the six contestants just found out they are prepping for a possible start against Perfect Drift.

Perfect Drift passed Saturday's Hollywood Gold Cup with an eye injury, and trainer Murray Johnson said the horse could be redirected to the Washington Park, which Perfect Drift won two years ago.

The Dr. Fager sextet might best be served by laying it all on the line this time, and not worrying about the next one.