LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Trainer Chuck Simon knows that turning back from seven to six furlongs can be very tricky for a racehorse. But Battle Won is so fast and so versatile, and Simon has been so aware of the potential pratfalls, that he feels Battle Won is fully prepared for the six-furlong Aristides Breeders' Cup Handicap on Saturday.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Jockey Edgar Prado will be aboard for Kitten's Joy's seasonal debut July 4 in the $250,000 Firecracker Breeders' Cup at Churchill Downs, the latest rider switch owner Ken Ramsey and trainer Dale Romans have made with the colt.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Dance With Ravens and Gold Strike, who are expected to vie for favoritism in Sunday's $1 million Queen's Plate, will have eight rivals in a competitive 146th running of Canada's most prestigious race.

A surprise entrant, the maiden Molinaro Beau, joined the prospective field here Thursday morning when a ceremonial draw was conducted at the annual Queen's Plate breakfast.

In the two-tiered draw, a selection order first was established and the connections then chose their own post positions.

The Stanley Hough-trained Travelator, who comes off a sharp score in the Candy Eclair Stakes at Monmouth Park, is the horse to beat in Saturday's $100,000 My Juliet Stakes at Philadelphia Park. That is, if she shows up.

Hough also entered in in the West Long Branch Stakes at Monmouth, and was not going to decide until Friday at the earliest as to where she will start.

A winner of 10 of 26 career starts, Travelator is the 2-1 favorite on the morning line in the six-furlong My Juliet. She'll be ridden by Harry Vega, the leading rider at Philadelphia Park.

OCEANPORT, N.J. - Trainer Eddie Broome puts Silver Moose back on the turf for the $55,000 Gilded Times Stakes Saturday at Monmouth Park.

Broome claimed Silver Moose for $30,000 on March 14 at Gulfstream Park. Silver Moose promptly won his first start for the new barn in a five-furlong grass allowance race.

Broome raised the bar in the next start, the Select Stakes on the main track at Monmouth. Silver Moose didn't break well and finished fourth.

MIAMI - Dream On Dream On struggled to win his maiden over the main track as a 2-year-old. But once switched permanently to the grass as a 3-year-old by trainer Bill Kaplan, Dream On Dream On improved dramatically.

Although the average daily ontrack handle on Stampede Park races rose slightly at this year's Thoroughbred meet, overall handle on Stampede races dropped nearly 8 percent.

The gross ontrack handle this year was $5,111,160 for a 45-day meet, compared with $5,163,099 for a 46-day stand in 2004, a drop of 1.01 percent. But the average daily ontrack handle was $113,581, up 1.2 percent from $112,241 last year.

Total handle on Thoroughbred racing from all sources averaged $199,031 daily, down 6.3 percent from 2004's $212,486.

AUBURN, Wash. - Strollin Slew looms as the one to beat in Saturday's top offering at Emerald Downs, a $25,000 optional claiming affair for fillies and mares to be run at 6 1/2 furlongs.

EDMONTON, Alberta - Deputy Country, Alberta's reigning horse of the year, has drawn the rail and will be looking for his second straight Journal Handicap victory at Northlands Park Saturday.

The $50,000 Journal, a 6 1/2-furlong race for 3-year-olds and upward, attracted a field of nine.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - The feature race at Hastings Saturday drew five horses, but it really boils down to a battle between Nineleventurbo and Lethal Grande. Coeur Joie, Victory Light, and Orphan Child would all have to improve dramatically to contend with the top two in the $50,000 optional race for 3-year-olds and up at 1 1/16 miles.