ETOBICOKE Ontario - Trainer Peter Berringer will take two stabs at the $146,750 Bunty Lawless Stakes at Woodbine, when he sends out All Star Lover and Chivas in the one-mile turf race for Ontario-sired runners on Sunday.

Wando and Wake at Noon, the last two Canadian Horses of the Year, will clash in Sunday's eighth race, a seven-furlong classified allowance worth $76,100.

After leading through most of the stretch in the 2003 Bunty Lawless, All Star Lover finished second to Tusayan in perhaps his best career performance.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - When a horse shows good speed for the first time in a while, it's usually a sign that he's coming up to a big effort. If that holds true for Don'tsellmeshort, then the seven other 3-year-olds entered in the feature race at Hastings Sunday are running for second money. The 1 1/16-mile allowance race for horses that haven't won a stakes drew a solid field that includes stakes-placed Future Flash, Cariboo Prospector, and Victory Light.

Rey de Cafe, who was narrowly defeated in his turf debut earlier in the Keeneland meet, overtook the favorite Dubleo in the final sixteenth to win the $112,200 Bourbon County Stakes by a neck Friday at Keeneland. Ready Ruler, one of three previous stakes winners going into the Bourbon County, finished 4 1/2 lengths behind in third.

ARCADIA, Calif. - Ron Charles, the former chairman of the Thoroughbred Owners of California, has joined Magna Entertainment as executive director of MEC California. Charles will oversee the company's California operations.

The announcement was made earlier this week. Charles will take the position Monday.

Charles joins Magna at a time when the company has not had an official in a dedicated position of overseeing its California operations, which includes Golden Gate Fields and Santa Anita.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - By anyone's standards, owner-trainer Tom Longstaff has had a successful year. He campaigned the sensational 4-year-old filly Dancewithavixen to another local divisional championship and there's certainly nothing wrong with his overall record of 18 wins from 91 starters, which equates to an excellent 20 percent.

There have been some low points as well, however. Dancewithavixen pulled up and was vanned off following her 7 1/2-length win in the B.C. Cup Distaff on

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Pollard's Vision became a millionaire on Friday when he held off a late surge from Cryptograph to win the Grade 3, $250,000 by a half-length. It was another half-length back to pacesetter Flamethrowintexan in third.

Turf has long been mentioned as an option for Beau's Town, who on Sunday will test the surface for the first time in the $40,000 Total Rewards at Louisiana Downs. The five-furlong turf race will close out the meet and drew a field of 11 horses, including turf sprint specialist Aloha Bold.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. - Snowdrops, who hasn't run since finishing second following a troubled trip in the De La Rose Stakes at Saratoga, is among 12 entered in a wide-open edition of the Grade 3 Athenia Handicap at Aqueduct on Sunday.

Snowdrops's trainer, Christophe Clement, said the filly had a "training setback" after the Aug. 11 De La Rose. Earlier in the year, Snowdrops won four consecutive races, including the Politely Stakes at Monmouth Park in June. The Politely was run at 1 1/16 miles on the grass, the distance and surface of the $100,000-added Athenia.

New York Racing Association officials spent Friday dealing with a third day of problems at Aqueduct associated with its shift to a new bet-processing service, in the hopes that numerous bugs could be worked out prior to the Saturday card.

Bill Nader, NYRA's senior vice president, said Friday afternoon that conditions were improving at Aqueduct because of work by track and tote officials, but he acknowledged that the first two days of the meet were "not our finest hours."

STICKNEY, Ill. - A couple of weeks ago, Chris Emigh was winning Hawthorne races at a breakneck clip, and he rushed to the top of the jockey standings. Now, Emigh merely holds a commanding lead in the local jockey colony, but his success still is striking.